The Bridges of Madison County

According to my mom, this book was huge when it first came out. Not quite the same reaction from me, though.
This book was okay. On the love story front, it was pretty good. A photographer meets a housewife and they spend the week together while he takes pictures of the bridges in Madison County. They fall in love, like deep in love. But then he has to leave and instead of running away with him the housewife stays with her family. She keeps track of him, though, because she always still loved him and vice-versa. This was kind of like The Notebook with the whole "true love conquers all" message. But unlike The Notebook, the ending sucked: they die without seeing one another again.
So yeah, a bit disappointing, but it's less than two hundred pages, so might as well read it. This book went on my Best Books shelf just because they were so in love and the author did a great job of conveying that.