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Summary: A masterpiece of great proportion!!
Review: This book was an emotional, touching book full of twists and turn, keeping the reader hooked to the end. Anyone who was turned off only because of the ending needs to realize that books don't always need to have a happy ending!! The book was beautifully written and deserves all the good credit it gets!!
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Summary: God! What garbage!
Review: Garbage is the nicest word for such stuff. The perpetrator of this piece of bleep and everyone involved with it should be checked for mental illness. THE HORSE WHISPERER is a dreadful imposition on a reader. Trite, mechanistic... words fail me. If you bought it or were given it, take it back! I am ashamed of myself for being so negative but I spent a part of me life trying to read this @#$%^&*(@#$%^&&*(). I am angry with myself for wasting the time! If there were a rating below 1, I would drop the 1 here to the lesser rating.
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Summary: Tripe!
Review: Good beginning, predictable middle, horrible sappy sentimental cowardly ending. Having set himself up with some reasonably interesting characters, placed them in a moral dilemna that might create tragedy, comedy, or god forbid, some sort of character growth, the author either loses interest or his mind and resolves the whole matter with a cheap, lazy and pointless deus ex machina. What was shaping toward an interesting story degenerates into nothing more than a trite, saccharine tear jerker. Instead of facing the consequences of their actions or making decisions about the course of their lives, his characters just dissolve into maudlin stereotypes and go weeping into the sunset. Somebody rent this guy a moral compass, he's lost! Bleehch!
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Summary: A spellbinding, 5-star choice for anyone
Review: Evans has created a stunning, captivating novel that appeals to people of all ages. Anyone with a soft spot for animals, especially horses, can experience the animal's pain. The hardships that one family must endure after the tragic accident of the daughter and her horse is something to be amazed by. This book was especially touching in that all of the main characters were, essentially, "good people". There were no evil humans to subtract from the plot; instead, there was only the struggle of a horse, a family, and, of course, the eternal stuggle of love and the heart's desires.
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Summary: Screenwriter misses mark as novelist
Review: The Horse Whisperer is based on an interesting premise - that there exist some people who have almost mystical bonds with horses and can heal them and their owners. It also has what could have been a compelling story line - a grim accident leaves death and destruction (both physical and emotional) in its wake and a family must deal with it, and heal from it, in the best way they can. Unfortunately, there are a number of places where the use of language leaves a lot to be desired - and finally the whole thing deteriorates into an uninspired "love" story a la Harlequin with clumsy sex scenes about midway in the book. It then churns to a conclusion that is melodramatic and highly improbable given the way the main characters have been portrayed. I wanted more horse whispering and less horsing around. The book needed a good editor to weed out the jarring British slang, which has no place in a book set in the American West. And it's tough to shake the feeling that it was written with the words REMEMBER THE REAL MONEY IS IN THE MOVIE DEAL taped to the author's PC. I forgave the author his trespasses several times because this book was portrayed as a first novel - I wouldn't have been so charitable has I known he was a very successful screenwriter who should have known better. I browsed this book several times and passed it by, but finally read it when it was loaned to me. This turned out to be a wise financial decision. Still, Evans is a talented writer who can finish a book and get it sold, which is no small feat. Maybe the big bucks he'll get out of this will enable him to spend more time and thought on character development, plot and language in his next book. Looking forward to seeing what Redford will do with this potentially good story. I suspect it will be an improvement.
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Summary: The Horse Whisperer is a amazing book.
Review: The author has described the characters very well. It is almost like you are right there, feeling the pain and happiness of each person. You should read it. The book is much better then the movie.
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Summary: Bridges of Madison County on Horseback
Review: This was a really bad book - boring and predictable from beginning to end. Worst of all it was insulting to me as a woman. Evans obviously couldn't write a believable female character to save his life. Annie spends most of the book trying to salvage a relationship with her daughter and the rest of it abandoning her familial responsibilities and selfishly and recklessly pursuing an affair with the "strong, sensitive, Montana cowboy" (is this a Harlequin??) And in between she spends a great deal of time "pleasuring herself." Given the absurd dialogue of the characters and the melodramatic ramblings of the author, I actually found myself laughing more than anything else. Those poor horses.... to have to endure the company of such people.
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Summary: One of the best books I have every read!!!
Review: This book was a bit predictable in the begining, but other than that it is a touching love story that is hard to put down!
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Summary: Good start, but predictible and sappy story line
Review: What starts off as an upsetting yet attention-grabbing book ends up being nothing more than a syrupy love story. When yuppie career-driven mom falls for the the quiet rugged cowboy, I was reminded of every girl-meets-boy-girl-gets-boy story. The fact that she's married is a mere inconvenience as she plots to leave her husband. Rubbish! A woman of her fiber would never succumb to such emotion---she's unable to demonstrate love to her own child! Yawn....
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Summary: So, what's the deal with this book?
Review: Did anyone else who read this book think the ending was completely over the edge? Where was the motivation for that little scene???? One star only indicates that I actually finished it!!!
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