A friend happened to give me this book a couple of weeks ago. Somehow I kept it pending until yesterday night, when I picked it up and finished reading the book in one go. 171 pages, not too much but a plethora of meanings Robert James Waller has brought forward. Life doesnt seem as simple anymore. If he could write this in the eighties there is so much more happening today.
The premise of the story is feeling for someone else when you have found the love of your life. Emotions are complicated. Period. And these complications arose out of love? Strange but true. Robert Kincaid - Married, divorced...met someone on a photo shoot reccee and fell in love over night? Had Francesca Johnson been unmarried she would not have thought twice about getting into his Chevorlet pickup truck. What held her back? Marriage? Kids? I wonder what someone - man/woman would do today, where love rarely or never happens on first sight. There are too many logical and practical people out there who would view every action and emotion with a magnifying glass. Everyone is looking for some sort of perfection. And this classifies the shallow from the so called broadminded. How long it will last - Questionable.
A few lines from the preface in the book.... "I am confident you will experience what I have experienced. In the different spaces of your heart, you may even find, as Francesca Johnson did, room to dance again." RJ Waller.
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Love at First Sight : its still possible today
the only problem now is :
Love has a Shelf Life
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