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Summary: Jana & Bob - a simple love story
Review: Certainly there are parallels to the love story in Bridges of Madison County, however this is a story of two young people who under different circumstances would likely have ended up together. There love seemed genuine but impossible. This is an easy read - and unlike the other reviewer, I do not judge Jana or Bob. As unfortunate as it sounds - affairs do happen.
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Summary: Big Disappointment
Review: I was excited to find these tapes at my library and kept waiting for the "magical" love to reveal itself as it did in Waller's novel. Instead, I was told all sorts of "filler", such as what Jana St. James was wearing and what she ate each day. An unbelievable amount of extraneous material to blow smoke over her THIN story about an average affair initiated by a married man. One can only feel sorry for Waller's wife Georgia, learning what her husband was doing the night they gave birth to their daughter. Much wishful thinking on the part of St. James: I didn't see ANY parallels with Madison County, the novel, except that the characters had sex.
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Summary: Big Disappointment
Review: I was excited to find these tapes at my library and kept waiting for the "magical" love to reveal itself as it did in Waller's novel. Instead, I was told all sorts of "filler", such as what Jana St. James was wearing and what she ate each day. An unbelievable amount of extraneous material to blow smoke over her THIN story about an average affair initiated by a married man. One can only feel sorry for Waller's wife Georgia, learning what her husband was doing the night they gave birth to their daughter. Much wishful thinking on the part of St. James: I didn't see ANY parallels with Madison County, the novel, except that the characters had sex.
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Summary: Jana & Bob - a simple love story
Review: I was looking forward to reading about the woman the book "Bridges of Madison County" was possibly based on. When Robert Waller was a young, married graduate student, he had an affair with whom I feel was a naive underage college student. Jana St. James wants us to believe her love affair with Mr. Waller was like no love ever before. Sorry, Jana. You had an affair with a married man, and it ended because he had obligations to his WIFE. What did you expect? For him to leave his pregnant wife and start a new life with a young, naive college girl? I don't think so. Also, the affair -- the "earthshattering" love she experienced is exactly the same as any other "first love", no more special or different, except that it was with a married man, and Robert Waller is just a man who has talents such as writing and signing. He is no more special than you or me.
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Summary: How one girl's affair in college haunted her
Review: I was looking forward to reading about the woman the book "Bridges of Madison County" was possibly based on. When Robert Waller was a young, married graduate student, he had an affair with whom I feel was a naive underage college student. Jana St. James wants us to believe her love affair with Mr. Waller was like no love ever before. Sorry, Jana. You had an affair with a married man, and it ended because he had obligations to his WIFE. What did you expect? For him to leave his pregnant wife and start a new life with a young, naive college girl? I don't think so. Also, the affair -- the "earthshattering" love she experienced is exactly the same as any other "first love", no more special or different, except that it was with a married man, and Robert Waller is just a man who has talents such as writing and signing. He is no more special than you or me.
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Summary: Janky Jana
Review: This book is a disgrace. It's sad to see that any woman would stoop to such a low level as to publicly humiliate herself as well as a well-known author!I understand that she had an affair with him, but that's it...AN AFFAIR! Get over it !!! It was an dumb-affair. I'm sure that Ms. St. James wasn't so young that she didn't realize what she was getting into! I just think that it's sad and this book did nothing, but turn a memory of a romance (affair or not) into something that the public didn't need to know about! Thanks...I'm done!
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Summary: Janky Jana
Review: This book is a disgrace. It's sad to see that any woman would stoop to such a low level as to publicly humiliate herself as well as a well-known author! I understand that she had an affair with him, but that's it...AN AFFAIR! Get over it !!! It was an dumb-affair. I'm sure that Ms. St. James wasn't so young that she didn't realize what she was getting into! I just think that it's sad and this book did nothing, but turn a memory of a romance (affair or not) into something that the public didn't need to know about! Thanks...I'm done!
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