Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Bridges to Nowhere

Frankly, I can't understand all the hoopla concerning this book. It seems to me a very ordinary sort of romance plot and the book is not particularly well written either. It is a psychologically thin novel -- the author does not delve into why a happily married woman should throw herself so cheerfully into adultery, and why one cheap, trashy fling should be considered so life changing. There is no competent analysis as to what love really is and the pathos of lifelong separation between the lovers are neither believable nor sensible. The book stands for false emotions.I draw a parallel between this book and Erich Segal's "Love Story" which was just as enormously popular, but which I find just as simplistic. Why do they succeed while scores of others like them fall by the wayside, and so many better novels have to be pulped? One can only wonder at the mysterious element called "luck."