{"id":3816,"date":"2016-07-13T01:29:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T05:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2016-05-21T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T23:30:08","slug":"audiobook-review-the-bridges-of-madison-county-by-robert-waller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2016\/07\/audiobook-review-the-bridges-of-madison-county-by-robert-waller.html","title":{"rendered":"Audiobook Review : The Bridges of Madison County by Robert Waller"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Title : The Bridges of Madison county<\/strong>
\n Author : Robert Waller<\/strong>
\n Narrators : Kelli O’Hara, Steven Pasquale<\/strong>
\n Genre : Romance<\/strong>
\n Publisher : Hachette Audio<\/strong>
\n Listening Length : 3 hours 50 minutes<\/strong>
\n Rating : 2.5\/5<\/strong>
\n Narrator Rating : 4\/5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Francesca Jones is a housewife living in Madison County, Iowa. She meets Robert Kincaid, a freelance photographer who has come to the county to photograph its bridges. Francesca and Robert are attracted to each other, and in a whirlwind romance of 4 days (husband and kids out of town) realize that they are soulmates. Robert wants her to come away with him, but can Francesca leave her family?<\/p>\n

So I haven’t seen the movie, but I’d heard so much about it that I decided to listen to the book first. I’m not very impressed.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t get a sense of the book’s characters. Kincaid is painted in as a rather swashbuckling cowboy of sorts with sensitivity, intelligence, good taste and a decent sense of humor; the ultimate fantasy! Francesca, a farmer’s wife is apparently way more than that; she is worldly, with far more sophisticated sensibilities than her farming neighbors. I think of this as Francesca’s story but I can’t fathom what she feels. What makes her tick? Why is this the love of a lifetime? She gets him and he gets her. I don’t get either one.<\/p>\n

I take this book at face value. While I get the enormity of the romance, I have rather flat characters to tie it to. I can’t root for either one. Yes I feel for them but in a rather distant way. The book doesn’t evoke any feelings – good or bad – in me. The ending makes me roll my eyes. Enough said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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