The Horse Whisperer

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Summary: An Outstanding Novel With Love and Adventure
Review: This is a great novel. I thought it was great how the author tied in love and adventure. He made you feel like you were there watching the whole time. You learn how an accident with a horse can change your whole life forever. The novel is about a young girl who get's in a horrific horse accident and looses her leg. The novel takes them to Montana where they get help from Tom a horse whisperer. The girl's mother falls in love with Tom and doesn't know how to deal with her feelings. What will the girl do when she finds out? What will they do when they fall in love? How will she tell her husband? Read the book to find out!!!!!

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Summary: It was a beautiful, well-written family drama.
Review: It's so complex! It has so many different components; woman seeking independence, father feeling abandoned, and a daughter seeking her health. Beautiful, vivid scenery in the way he described the rugged beauty of Montana.

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Summary: Great for awhile....
Review: I found THE HORSE WHISPERER very easy to get into. Flowed smoothly, good character development, believeable romance until the end. After all of the buildup of Tom Booker's horsemanship skills, there was no way that the events in the last few pages of the book could happen. The movie was better than the book. On a positive note, the book left me more intrigued with Montana.

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Summary: Melodramatic ending ruins an otherwise great book
Review: While I was reading this book, I would have given it 5 stars -- excellent writing, engaging characters, page-turning storyline. Then, it's like someone else decided to finish the book for Evans -- someone who didn't read the first 3/4 of the book. The ending is so ridiculously bad that I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. I don't have difficulty with sad endings, but this ending is too absurd to even be sad. You might as well rent the movie instead. (Something I very rarely recommend.) They created a different ending that actually fits the rest of the book.

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Summary: The Horse Whisperer and it is a very articulate, touching, e
Review: Hi, What do I say, and what can I tell you that would persuade you into picking up a certain book and reading it, from cover to cover with enthusiasm and desire. It is not often that an author's first novel makes #1 spot on the Bestsellers List on The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and sixteen other major newspapers. Let alone when the novel is a modern day western written by an Englishman from London, England. Well with no more ado. Here it is--in my own words--. Nicholas Evans a new and very articulate author has written his first novel titled The Horse Whisperer and it is a very articulate, touching, enlightening and mystifying book (This first novel made it to #1 on The New York Times Bestsellers List in the shortest time ever, and remained there for over a year). Nicholas Evans is a very powerful and articulate with his descriptions of the characters, places, and situations. He draws you into his book and keeps you there. It is evident that Evans has put a lot of time and effort in his research of the material in the book. Evans, though a foreigner has spent a considerable amount of time in and about the stories primary locations, he has gone in-depth into the people, thier careers and has hardly left any details untouched. Now, onto the book.

The book is very touching from the start. It is a modern dream like family with all things going right, and then... one day their whole world changes. A teen-aged girl becomes hospitalized and comatose. Her horse almost killed defending her from 80 tons of truck and cargo. The mother who is desperate to keep their world from crashing in on them, takes them on a hell bent trek trying to save the horse and her daughter. She wants to put all the broken pieces back in some form or semblance of order. This book may present an enlightening insight to our own lives as Nicholas Evans is able to show us part of ourselves. The book has shown and presented even me some very parallel situations, trials, tribulations and looks at our own lives. It covers most all of life's situations. He presents views of a young adolescent pre-teen growing up, a woman who has to decide on -either her career, -the family, -love, -and -life in general, a father who feels his family has left him out in the cold, and also how a separate man dealt with a failed marriage and the near final enlightening thoughts... does this lone ranger of a man always win?

Mystifying is the book and also the most intricate and important character in the book. How can one character even atempt to take care of a family whom he knows nothing of and must save all of their lives from crumbling. Who is this you wonder..? It is a stalwart of a man who is to horses what Doctor Dolittle is to wild animals just his presence can calm the huge animal. Yet, his own truths and values are to be tested by love.

Yes, it is still possible for a first time author to put a gripping saga that is touching, enlightening, and mystifying to most every reader. There is more too.. There is romance, mild intimacies and humor. This book like other best sellers also has a movie out. Unfortunately the movie does no justice to the book. So for the best seat in the theater I say do not go see the movie. Find a place of solitude and sit back and watch one of the best shows your own imagination has put on. The book The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans and first published 1995 by Delacorte Press. New York New York and In paperback by Dell books isavailable at most bookstores and on-line

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Summary: Great read, but poor ending
Review: As I was reading this book, I could not put it down. I truly enjoyed every minute of the story, and believed that I could not have chosen a better book for a long plane ride. I liked all of the characters, and I was really moved by the strained mother/daughter relationship between Annie and Grace. I did think, however, that the story should have focused more on Tom's healing of Pilgrim, and even Grace. It seemed as though Grace suddenly was able to work with Pilgrim, when not too long before that she couldn't even say his name. I thought the love story was very believable. Annie was a woman torn up inside with grief for her daughter and conflict over her work and home life. Tom was a strong, gentle and lonely man. I found it natural that they would reach out to each other. I think it also showed that Tom was not perfect. He was this family's savior, yes, but he had his own needs and desires. I don't think their relatioship weakened the story at all. I think it pointed out that life is not neat and simple. Annie's intentions in taking Grace and Pilgrim to Montana were to save them, and that is what she did. Neither she nor Tom intended to fall in love. It simply happened during a very emotional, tumultuous time for all of them. Now comes the ending. I would have understood if Tom had simply been killed saving Grace, but that is not what happened. Actually, I can't begin to understand it. The interpretation that makes most sense is that Tom sacrificed himself for Annie's family. But even that doesn't make sense. He and Annie had already come to the conclusion that they couldn't be together, and Grace had already found out about the affair. So what good did it do? The damage had already been done. Everyone was already feeling bad, and nothing would change that, or make them forget. The worst scenario is that he committed suicide because he was distraught. That would not fit in with his character at all. He was a strong, even man. He had just told Annie and Grace that Pilgrim needed to discover that the worst thing he could imagine wasn't that terrible, and that he didn't need to run from it. Pilgrim needed to learned that he could live with it. So shouldn't that same idea apply to Tom? I just don't understand. I heard that the ending of the movie is different, so obviously I'm not alone in thinking that the ending didn't work. I'm going to rent it to see for myself.

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Summary: A teriffic book I coulnd't put down
Review: When I heard about The Horse Whisperer I immediately wanted to read it because it was about horses and I really love horses. I've read a lot of books about horses but this is defenitely the best I've ever read. And even if you don't like horses I am sure you will enjoy the book very much. It is very well written and I could imagine what was happening as if it happened right in front of me. Once I started to read I really didn't want to put it down before it was finished. I simply loved it!

After reading The Horse Whisperer I also read The Loop and maybe my expectations were too high but I almost fell asleep reading it. It was just so boring and so slow. Nothing happened and the main part of The Loop is just about describing the scenery. I sure hope his next book (if there will be one) is more like The Horse Whisperer!!!

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Summary: Powerful, touching, real, this book demands to be read
Review: I rarely buy books, but this one I treasure.

As a slow reader and a young adult, this book presented a challenge and a step for me into the world of novels. However, the length was not nearly a problem.

Perhaps one note though -- classics do not tend to have lurid details of sex in them, which Evans certainly does. This sadly sets it apart from a the highest of quality books. The author has the potential to become a name along with Pearl Buck and Charles Dickens, but it is aimed more for an audience ready to shell out cash. This is a book meant to be read by the masses and designed to reel in money, a quick, easy, enthralling read that used sexual tension to obtain this end.

Still, by the end of the book I was hoping for more. Evans mixes reality with beauty to a point where I knew the characters better than myself and wanted to find out everything else that happens to them.

Although some points seemed a little sappy, this is a must-read-book that drags you head first all the way through.

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Summary: It was wonderful,and heart wrenching.
Review: I enjoyed reading The Horse Whisperer. This was the first book that I have ever wanted to finish reading. The story was interesting.I didn't want to put it down. The end was very sad. Not what I had hoped would of happened.Tom shouldn't have died.I wanted to cry.

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Summary: Black Beauty on a psychiatrist's couch. Pluuuueeese!
Review: Not since Black Beauty or National Velvet has a book been aimed so unashamedly at both a teen and family animal-loving audience - which is what no doubt led to its bestellerdom. But if you're going all out to pluck heart-strings, then pluck them strongly. Evans never really plumbed any strong emotions throughout. And the part where they head off across America with the horse, stopping off at the occasional symbolic monument, was hopelessly contrived. With British authors writing about America, it is so often feared that they won't catch the tone right or will lack depth. In these scenes, Evans drags everything to its most superficial level - the American experience becomes little more than a sightseeing trip. In the end, these were the only parts to bring me to tears, I was laughing so hard!