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Summary: YUK!
Review: Two people close to me (but not anymore) highly recommeded this book and, therefore, I was anxious to read it. It never got any better after the truck accident. I read the whole book (what a waste of time) just to see if it was going to get better and it never did. I'm glad to read the other review articles here to see I'm not the only one who was disappointed
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Summary: This book was a dismal disappointment.
Review: After hearing all the reviews, I was thrilled when I received this book as a Christmas present. The beginning was suspensful and made me anxious to continue reading. However, after Grace and Annie arrived at the Booker's, the story starts to go downhill. Where are the details and secrets of the art of horse whispering? It's as though it was too much trouble to do any detailed research into this unknown art. The ending of the book seems like the author was in a hurry to wrap the package and get it to the post office in any condition just so he'd be on time with his delivery. The way he chose to end the book did nothing to enhance the storyline. Very disappointing
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Summary: Very Disappointed!
Review: Very Disappointed, I can't believe that Mr. Evans develop such a story. The starting of the story is wonderful with great description of the characters and the environment of Montana. But what has to do with love, Doesn't he know that Annie has already been married. I consider thats a kind of adultory. And thats very sick too. What going on with his mind. I hope this is not going to happen in his next novel. And think he should go and check his concept of love and understand what in mean
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Summary: Ugh!
Review: The cover of this book should show a busty woman and a hunk of a man sitting on horses but locked in a passionate embrace. The synopsis of this book makes it sound like a great story; the truth is that it is nothing more than a dime-store romance. What is this with best-sellers about guys who are just too much for married women to resist? Must be some ego on these authors, who obviously knowing little about true love. (if they insist on writing about romance). I would appreciate it if the synopsis of these books makes it clear that the book is a romance. It is akin to making a porno movie with a plot (no, no I don't mean that it is all about sex, I am just saying that the story exists only to serve the romance, not the other way around
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Summary: Half and half!
Review: It is interesting that about half the reviews I read were one thing, and the other half the other. My thoughts echo one group. At the risk of dull repeat, the beginning was great, although it distrubed me more than fiction usually does, and a little past the halfway mark I considered stopping, but I have a problem stopping before the end of a book I'm reading, no matter what the reason. The ending is atrocious. How could someone who can start out writing so well come up with such a horrific, out of character ending. Tom Booker would never, ever do that! And Grace would have been finished off if he had. Why the abrupt ridiculous ending, Mr. Evans? Did you get tired of it, or was your deadline truly upon you? It would be lovely if you could rewrite at least the last quarter of the book. I know you could do much better than that. It was the concept, the title and the cover that drew me to it as well, but that much trauma gave me bad dreams after finishing it
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Summary: A rave review of The Horse Whisperer
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One cannot ever accurately describe or praise The Horse Whisperer enough. This book is full of so much charm, love, and beauty that the only possible way to imagine how wonderful it is, is to just read it. One does not 'just read' The Horse Whisperer, however, one experiences it. This is because The Horse Whisperer is not just a book, it is a life, many lives in fact. It is an experience that is free for all to experience. Whenever people talk about this book to me, I think, 'Hey. You read that too? But, that's MY book. That was MY experience.' Then I realize that it was their experience too. It is for everyone.
The Horse Whisperer revovles around a character named Tom Booker, along with several other characters, who is THE horse whisperer. Tom has the gift of curing mentally injured horses, or being able to help with a difficulty of a horse. This feat is accquired through gentleness, patience, and persistence. Today I was lucky enough to go to a 'clinic', or demonstration, of a real horse whisperer. This man was the clone of Nicholas Evan's Tom Booker. His attitude, his techniques, his clothes, his features, and even his clinic layout were the same as the legendary man known only in a book. Nicholas Evans, therefore, has described a man and a technique of living and working in his book that is so real that there is only one difference between the legendary and the real. This difference is that everyone is able to meet Tom Booker. Anyone can pick up The Horse Whisperer and read it. Anyone who can do that will be exposed to the greatest and most powerful book on Earth
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Summary: Good two-thirds of a book
Review: It seemed as if the author was two-thirds into a good story when his agent called to remind him that the manuscript was due the next day at noon. Evans hadn't figured out the ending, so he grabbed a bunch of sentences out of his pantry and whipped something up. The ending was not connected to the rest of the book. The Horse Whisperer was a good story that inexplicably became a run-of-the-mill romance. I've been had
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Summary: Nicolas Evans Sells Out
Review: I feel betrayed! After a wonderful beginning and promises of a bit of soul in a popular novel, Nicolas Evans sells out to the Danielle Steele/Bridges crowd. The complex mother/daughter relationship is neatly dispatched of in one evening; "Sorry, honey, Mommy has to run off and have a passionate but hopeless affair now..." Shame on you, Mr. Evans
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Summary: A promising start...
Review: After an entertaining start, this book failed to hold my attention. The more I read, the more predictable the story became, and by the end I was even tempted to throw in the towel and not bother finishing. This was Nicholas Evan's first novel. I won't hurry to buy his next
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Summary: The best book I've ever read.
Review: This book is an all time classic in my opinion. Totally heart-wrenching and thought-provoking, the book had you captivated until the very end. A must read for all ages, the book will tug at your heart strings and you won't want to put it down. Don't forget your tissues
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