The Horse Whisperer

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Summary: COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN
Review: This book is absolutely a must. It is written in such great detail and the characters are very real, in a sense. I seen an advertisement for it in my Horse & Rider magazine and had to have it.

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Summary: Sensitive and moving
Review: This book is now one of my all-time favorites. I had a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes during certain parts of the story. I found the charachters believable, interesting, but yet fragile. This story is not just about healing a horse, but about the healing of a very precious relationship. Mr. Evans' painted pictures with his words, and enabled me to feel I was there watching the story unfold before me.

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Summary: Incredibly Touching
Review: As one with a fair amount of reading going on, Evan's beautiful tapestry woven and pulled together through the description and characters causese this to be a definite read. The beautiful discovery of both the characters and the land create an environment full of life. Evan's words bring to life a whole new world that even sheds light upon yourself if you re-examine both the nature and the themes of the book. A definite plus in my reading list.

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Summary: ran off the track
Review: this came highly recommended by several friends and since i have asked them "What were you thinking?" This was very corny overall. It began well enough but the characters were like Judith Kranz goes west, the ending was a cop out! how did this thing ever get published much less sell?!?

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Summary: One of the best
Review: This is a very touching story. I have not read anything so beautiful for a long time. As for the ending, it was not disappointing like some others wrote. Quite on the contrary.

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Summary: An uplifting tale of overcoming a handicap.
Review: In The Horse Whisperer, a young girl with hopes of becoming a champion jockey is tragically handicapped when an innocent ride turns deadly for her best friend. With an amputated leg and dreams crushed, the girl loses all hope until a magical man changes her life and gets her to ride once more. You will not be able to put this gripping story down once you have started to read it. This novel is truly a must-read for anyone: children, adolescents, and adults alike.

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Summary: tearjerker
Review: What a disappointment! I was very anxious to read the horsewhisperer and had high expectations, but nope. I found this novel a tearjerker with flat characters who obviously don't seem to have any motives. The novel is very unbalanced. At the end it's really unbelievable. I think Evans must have been in a hurry. He really took the easy way out.

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Summary: True to life...
Review: This novel by an author who had no current knowldge of horsese is amazing. I've grown up in the heart of country like he writes about and that is the way things go. Horses can be connected with and there are some people who can and some people who can't. Someone else wrote a review that the horse was forced and tied into submission. Not true!! I liked how he portrayed the story and how true to life it was. And how humans are so fragile and how life can be so short. Read it and then come out West and see what you think.

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Summary: A amazing recovery of a young girl and her horse.
Review: It was the first day of fall and it had already snowed in New York. The sun was out and not a cloud in sight. Grace woke up early that Saterday morning to go riding with her friend Judith. They had ridden together every Saterday for the last couple years. Grace and Judith didn't go to school together or even see or speak to eachother on the weekdays, but when Saterday came social hours began. Grace wasn't sure if she should go riding because it had been snowing. They decided that the snow wasn't going to affect their ridding or their social hour. Judith and Grace were both riding Tennessee walking horses. If you really like drama and love stories I would recomend this book. I would have to say to read the book before watching the movie. The book is more explanatory and the movie is so vague. This book is more likley to attract the female gender. It had a lot of hope, love, and loss. I would have to asy that this is my all time favorite book and if I were to rank this book on a scale from one to ten. I would give it an 11.

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Summary: A girl and a horse fight to live to be with each other again
Review: In The Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evans, you meet many interesting characters. They were all very believable and understandable. They way that Evans described the characters was really great. He explained every character enough that you were able to relate to them personally in some ways. One of the main characters was Grace. She was a very positive, outgoing, brave girl who had to deal with many hardships. In the beginning, I would have to descrive her as a fun-loving girl with no worries, but as the book progressed, she became very negative about life and others. Torwards the end, I began to look up to her bravery and attitudes considering how her fast her life was changed. Grace's mother was Annie. Now she was very interesting. Annie was the type of person who had a terrible time showing that she cared. She thought that if she took Grace to Montana to help her horse, Pilgrim, get better (without asking if she wanted to go), it would help make their relationship better. It turned out though, that all Grace wanted was to be loved by her mother. Annie was married to Grace's father, Robert. The book told some about his past, present, and future. He seemed to me to be a very loving manwho had a very interesting and fulfilling past behing him. He had gone overseas to help in the Peach Corps. He didn't show up much in the book, but these are just some of the impressions I got. Tom is the "Horse Whisperer". He helps Grace with her horse, Pilgrim, who has suffered from a huge trauma in his life. tom is a man who doesn't put up with anything wrong. If he thinks something can be done, he will try to accomplish it. He thought that Pilgrim coule be fixed, and he went toward the goal with the help of Grace. As the story goes on, there becomes more of an attraction between Annie and Tom. When this happens, you find out the tru kind of man that Tom is. He is sensative and very caring towards others. He has suffered from loasses in his life ans is still trying to deal with them. If you like realistic fiction and a little bit of the west in a book, then I think this would be a perfect book for you. It truly helped showing me how people can overcome a disability or a horrifying event in their lives.