What is it in a story that takes it to the New York Times Best Seller List for three years or 156 weeks? When I read this book, that was what I wanted to know. I look at the book on the shelf and think, "What was there that I just did not get?"
The love story set in the 1960s is about Robert Kincaid, a renowned photographer, and a Francesca Johnson, a farm wife. The story is based on her diaries and the personal effects he had sent to her after he died.
She is secluded and alone much of the time. When Robert comes to photograph the bridges, her family is away at the state fair. They are, like Romeo and Juliet, star-crossed lovers who will only remain in each other's hearts and minds for all of their life, though they only shared four days. Her diaries indicate that for about thirty years Francesca maintained the emotional contact she committed to Kincaid by seeing his photography in National Geography, news clippings, and reading the articles written about him.
It is easy to be in love for four days. Anyone can. New love is exciting, romance is thrilling, and a new lover's touch is magical. Yes, it will last forever -- if you do not have to wake up to reality. It was simple to see this aspect of the enchantment about their story. Francesca wrote of the agony that she felt when choosing whether to go with Kincaid or stay with her family, her children. This was the crux of her story; stay with her husband and children, or run off with a stranger.
I could never understand that, my child is first. Today the book is on my daughter's shelf, and she knows more about the emotions that drove Kincaid and Francesca than I ever will. I am too practical; but she tells me I have never loved as they did -- and she just might be right because I still wonder why this book sold millions. Suspend disbelief and enjoy the romantic interlude.
Perhaps I should have seen the movie (I am a Clint Eastwood fan). For me the book was worth three stars, but the millions of people who loved this book and movie cannot all be wrong, so it must be a five. I guess I will give it a four.
Victoria Tarrani
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羅伯特・詹姆斯・沃勒(1939— ) 美國小說傢,攝影傢,音樂傢。曾任北艾奧瓦大學商學院院長,目前定居在得剋薩斯州的一座高山農場,閑時寫作,攝影,玩音樂,研究經濟學和數學。多部作品曾躋身《紐約時報》暢銷書排行榜。代錶作《廊橋遺夢》位居1993年暢銷書排行榜榜首。
花了些时间将这本书看完了,《廊桥遗梦》的中文本。不得不说,确实是一本好书,单纯地从作者细腻的文笔来看,就是值得一读的。同时也很庆幸这样一本书遇到了一位好的译者,在没有阅读英文原版之前,将这本书成功地带入了我的心里。很好,很舒服的文字、流畅地心理描绘以...
評分 評分 評分 評分記不清是九幾年的某下午讀過金凱的中文故事 如今再讀,美好印象打瞭些摺扣
评分電影還是相當不錯的
评分雖然是編的,但跟真的一樣.不服不行.
评分纍死我,連猜帶濛的看完瞭全本,我的第一本英文原著,後來看的還是比較輕鬆。又去看瞭電影,看看自己遺漏瞭什麼。我盡力理解我所能理解的,從來愛情沒有定義,沒有什麼的樣的情感是對的,或者錯的,也沒有什麼應該的。每個人都會做齣不同選擇,所要做的就是尊重這種情感,尊重愛情在人類情感中的偉大。
评分雖然是編的,但跟真的一樣.不服不行.
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