false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168049672m/29948.jpg 29948 17 Bestselling author Richard Bach explores the meaning of fate and soul mates in this modern-day fairytale based on his real-life relationship with actor Leslie Parrish. "This is a story about a knight who was dying, and the princess who saved his life," Bach writes in his opening greeting. "It's a story about beauty and beasts and spells and fortresses, about death-powers that seem and life-powers that are." Yes, it is all that, and more. On the earthly plane this is about the riveting love affair between two fully human people who are willing to explore time travel and other dimensions together even as they grapple with the earthly struggles of intimacy, commitment, smothering, and whose turn it is to cook. Their love affair and happy ending inspired many enthusiastic fans. Years later, some of these fans were devastated to discover that this match made in heaven didn't manage to stick (the couple are no longer together). But in an Amazon interview, Bach explains that lovers don't have to stay married forever to be lifetime soul mates. Read this as a lesson about love's enchantments and possibilities, but don't count on this book to keep you and your mate on the bridge across forever. <I>--Gail Hudson</I> 172963 book 1982 The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story total:1591|5:439|4:490|3:445|2:149|1:68| 1591 5856 1998 118 5 2 false false Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 22:47:11 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 14:15:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 17:18:00 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 10 13:42:30 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 true false Wed Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Fri Apr 03 05:52:40 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 06:00:12 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Mar 25 21:40:26 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 23:13:34 -0700 2008
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Very out of character for me, but I have always loved this book. I think mostly because it's about real love. Not fairy tale bulls*^t, but terrifying - "I'm exposing myself to you, do not crush me, please" love.

The kind you try to sabatoge...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1996 Tue Jul 24 05:55:46 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 03:44:38 -0700 2007 Of almost every woman who has read it.
(I was coaxed into reading it by one!)
They all, poor things, lead the rest of their lives believing that there was a soul mate out there for them.

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And after rereading it ten or fifteen years later, I thought how shallow, and how trite. And that was before I learned that the author, whose whole book is based on the relationship with the s...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 22 13:28:42 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 13:28:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 29 17:34:50 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 17:36:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 11 00:43:38 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 00:45:07 -0800 2008 1 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 22:10:53 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 02:34:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Thu Sep 13 21:19:25 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 04:13:21 -0700 2007 you will find him or her..sooner or later..

i have been a living example of it..

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