The writing in this book was absolutely stunning! Sometimes I feel that flowery language can be too much, but this felt just right. It added to the characters and what created the magic between them; they both had poetic souls and finally felt they'd found their match.
This story was so touching and really pulled at my heart!

I get it now


I've heard about this book for years and wanted to see what the hype was about. I see it now.

Read the book back when it came out and balled like a baby. Then remember being so disappointed that they cast Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood in the film adaptation.. but they were perfect together!
I literally pop in the dvd every single night. I have watched the movie at lest 150 times, no joke. It’s my bedtime movie. In fact I’m watching right now, and I just decided I’m going to re-read the book.

I watched the movie version of this as a kid, but was probably too young to really appreciate it. I actually walked out of the movie before it was over because I thouught it was so boring. I admit that I also almost stopped listening to the audio version because the writing was so overdone.

The story traces a four-day affair between a traveling photographer and a farmer's wife. They fall madly in love, but never see each other again. Because of her sense of responsibility to her family, she refuses to run off with the photographer, which seems reasonable and right in its own quiet way. At the same time, I'm not sure I agree with or like the premise that love is something that just happens "once in a universe" to people who otherwise don't know each other.

I do love the passionate responses that this book received and found reading the vehement reviews sort of entertaining in their own right.