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Summary: Reader from California: I loved The Book!! It was Excellent!
Review: This book was such a great book. I couldn't put it down. It keeps you interested from the first page all the way to the last. I loved the characters, the plot the whole thing it was great. I can't wait to see the movie!!
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Summary: One of the best book I have ever read.....
Review: This was a terrific book! I could hardly put it down! It really makes you feel the emotions that the characters are experiencing. Even though I was kind of dissapointed with the ending, it still worked out very good. I can't wait to see the movie!!!
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Summary: re-hash of Bridges of Madison Co
Review: Like Bridges of Madison County, this book features a tall thin middle-aged loner who has never found a woman who could reach into his lonely heart and be his soul-mate (poor thing). Then when he finally finds her, darn it, she's married to somebody else. This is a tired plot device and a cop-out on the part of the author. I'm not too morally superior about affairs (some of my best friends have had affairs...), but when you use adultery as a plot device to supposedly "heal" a hurting family, I for one feel manipulated.But unlike "Bridges," this novel has an interesting sub-plot about a young girl who loves horses and is nearly killed while riding one. Too bad that this plot, too, dissolves into syrupy healing schlock in the overly-simplistic handling of her mom's affair. Like nearly all the other reviewers, I was fascinated by the first 150 pages, but severely disappointed after that. I don't see how an affair like this one could be appealing, unless you are yourself caught up in a boring marriage and are afraid to either work it out or get out--then I suppose it would provide day-dream material. But watch out, I think in the long run it has to cause more pain than magical healing.
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Summary: A beautiful story, one of the best books I have read
Review: The Horse Whisperer is a beautiful novel. I cannot wait to see the movie directed by Robert Redford...I just hope it isn't a dissapointment, because the book was anything but. For those readers who complain about the ending, keep in mind that the author is not writing a book to satisfy his audience...he's not customizing it for YOU. It's his work, his writing, and there is deeper meaning behind the ending than we could ever know...only the author knows. Pick up this book, believe me, you won't want to put it down.
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Summary: Dragged out love story
Review: Given all the hoopla about this book, I expected much better. It seemed like a long rehash of Bridges of Madison County. I found it poorly written and boring. Quite frankly, I was amazed that I actually finished the book. I also dislike love stories where people find their soulmate isn't their spouse.
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Summary: GREAT but..
Review: The Horse Whisperer is a great book actually except for one glaring flaw: Annie's adultery with Tom Booker. It was absolutely unecessary especially when Nichalos Evans made Robert, Annie's husband, as nothing but a devoted and loving man who definitely didn't deserve Annie's infidelities. However, if you can get past that.. you will find that it is a really good read, one that is simply marvellous and beautiful, a story of a girl's struggle with the cruel fate that had befallen her, of learning again about faith, love and hope and survival and the friendship between a girl and her beloved horse. Although I must admit that when I finished the book, I hated Annie's character.
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Summary: A book to read and love!
Review: The Horse Whisperer is a novel about a man who can talk with horses. But the most important subject in the book isn't is love and trust. It's about how some persons develop and become new individuals. It makes you think a lot. About life, love, trust, frienship and all the other eternal qustions. It's a book to read and love. I liked it a lot, and I hope you will too! Lisa
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Summary: A solid 6
Review: I really liked this book until they started having the affair. I don't know why it turned me off. I've read plenty of other books where people are having affairs and haven't been offended. Maybe it was that Robert didn't deserve it or that Annie wasn't likeable. Or maybe it was just so predictable. I don't know. The ending surprised me for sure. I'd recommend it to others.
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Summary: awesome book!
Review: I think Evans knows how to create characters very well.Particularly Grace, her transformtion from unlikeable daughter to a loving one is fantastic!
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Summary: I wanted to give it a 10, but...............
Review: I really liked this book and enjoyed the story. Especially at the beginning. At first I didnt like the mother at all, but as the book moves on you saw her hardness melt away, and saw another side of her. I found myself really liking her. You realize she was just a mother like a lot of mothers trying to do her best. Even if not everyone agreed with her. The part of the book that bothered me was that here is this very strong man. He had to be after all look what he did for the horse (that everyone had said was impossible.) And gives up on his own life. Some say because he couldnt live without Annie, but it doesnt fit the character of him that was established all through the book. He was to strong for that he wouldnt have copped out like that. And here this poor girl was in this awful accident and is traumatized by that. Then she finds out about her mother and Bookers relationship, and witnesses his death. Yet she goes home and is OK! with all of that What? It just seemed that toward the end the author just wanted to wrap up the story. The problem is he wrapped it up to neatly. I hope they at least change the ending for the movie. Dont make it so neat and tidy.
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