If you don’t like the book and can say why, I am willing to listen. “I really do have a small ego,” Waller told The New York Times in 2002. Bridges turned the unknown writer into a multimillionaire and made Madison County, Iowa, an international tourist attraction. Readers, however, bought more than 12 million copies in 40 languages. “Instead, we get a lot of quasi-mystical business about the shaman-like photographer who overwhelms the shy, bookish Francesca with ‘his sheer emotional and physical power.'” “Waller depicts their mating dance in plodding detail, but he fails to develop them as believable characters,” Eils Lotozo wrote in The New York Times in 1993. Many critics made fun of Bridges, calling it sappy and cliche-ridden. Waller wrote a sequel, A Thousand Country Roads - An Epilogue to The Bridges of Madison County, in 2002. The Eastwood-directed 1995 film adaptation grossed $182 million worldwide. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list and stayed on it for over three years.
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