The Horse Whisperer

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Summary: Fast paced, heart racing excitement from beginning to end!
Review: The Horse Whisperer keeps you on the edge of your seat from the opening scene to the end. It is written in language that unfolds the scenes before your mind's eye in such a way that you feel you would recognize the place were you actually there. The tension between the characters is taut and never ending, never giving you a clue to how the next scene will play out. Not much ingenuity in the finale, but overall, a great read

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Summary: Very emotional! Beautifully written! Excellent read!
Review: At first this was hard to pick up. Then, it kept my attention and I did not want to put it down, even after I had finished the book I felt I wanted to read it over and over, it was selfish, angry, heart-wrenching, and most important loving. One of the best books I had read

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Summary: A sad, moving book suitable for almost everyone.
Review: The Horse Whisperer. Just the title brings back all the thoughts I had while reading the book. It was a book written well which made me feel as if I was wrapped up in the happenings. As if I was there. Experiencing it. I am a totally horse crazy person and when I had to read a book for my book report, I was sure I'd like it because it had horses in it. I don't know if I actually did like it or not but one thing I know is that I was really moved by the plot and especially by the emotions in the story. The first line "There was death at its beginning as there would be death at its end" pretty much summed up the book. The beginning was great with a melancholy and tragic atmosphere, as if it was fate that something horrible would happen. What I thought made the book such a success and a bestseller was the fact that it would appeal to almost everybody. It had no particular type of genre. It had romance, humour, adventure, horses and most of all, feeling in the book. Although I didn't quite like the ending, I would approve of it as it fitted in with the theme of fate in the story. Its sad tragic ending was suitable as it was the mood of the book that something bad would happen. I would recommend it as a satisfying read which would be a good use of time

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Summary: Is this what readers really want? I can't believe it!
Review: I'm not quite finished with this publishing marvel, so my remarks may be premature, but I couldn't resist the opportunity to blast this book out of the water. Its horrible beginning goes nowhere...it pulls you in (in a tricky sort of way) and drops you off exactly where you started. The middle is dull and boring. And God only knows what kind of ending Evans has in store for me! To me, an aspiring novelist, I think this should have been the first novel that never left the filing cabinet. But since everyone in the world is reading it...I'm sure Evans could care less what any of us think! The big question is why is everyone reading it? Was the title really that intriguing? If readers want better fiction, then they'll have to prove it to the publishers and editors and agents around the country. And the only way to do that is to quit buying pop fiction that reads like a worn out soap opera. That's my ten cents! For those of you who loved it, I'm glad. But I can't figure out why to save my soul. Critically yours, A frustrated reade

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Summary: VERY good book that has a wonderful surprise ending.
Review: The Horse Whisperer is the best book I have read. There is a lot of powerful emotion that you can feel. The more you read, the better the book gets

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Summary: horse hockey
Review: I will be forever greatful to the individual who loaned me this book...it kept my hard earned cash in my pocket. This book is accurately summed up in "You can't judge a book by its cover" . The cover was a ten, the story was less than zero

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Summary: A spiritual and romantic book all in one!
Review: This book is a one of a kind fiction book. Although it was a romance of kind, it was very spiritual and teaching all in one. For a first time novelist, it was inspirational! I have passed it on to all my friends and family and for all of us it was a pick up and not put down until finished sort of book. The set-up of the story started immediately and got you hooked within the first chapter. From there the book captured you and you needed to see what would happen next. It was also teaching in the respect that after reading what this family and child endured and how they evolved through it, you know that your own tragedies can be endured much easier. I would recommend this book to almost any age

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Summary: Being a Horse Lover Has Led Me Astray
Review: Everything pertinent has been said by other reviewers, I just wish I had read their comments before I got sucked into this book. What a waste of a good story by such bad writing and unbelievable plotting

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Summary: One of the books that I have read that has good matter.
Review: I thought this book was written very well. It is about the love a mother and father feel for their daughter, and it's also about the many sacrifices that they are willing to make for their daughter so that she can get well again and begin to reconstruct her life after the accident. The family travels to Colorado to seek the help of a man, which the mother falls in love with, and Jack, the man, falls in love with her. He gets killed, but the daughter has learned his skill well, she helps others through their lives. I really liked this book and wish to find more with the same matter and depth into life. It shows that the author has a good grasp on what they want life to be, but they also understand that certain unexpected obstacles can occur at any time, in this novel, it's the wreck. Even though it may be hard and stressful on the family, you can get through it, or at least that is what I think the author, Nicholas Evans it trying to say. I recommend this book to most ages, perhaps not elementary because of some of the matter covered, but all the rest.

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Summary: Well, *someone* must have liked it...
Review: I am a horse owner and well-read book-lover and I read this book out of a sense of duty of a kind, after it was recommended to me by some horsey friends. The story is of a girl named Grace and her horse, both tragically wounded physically and mentally when they have an altercation with an eighteen-wheeler. The horse goes psychotic following the accident, and Grace, whose leg had to be amputated and who harbors a good deal of animosity toward her mother for various reasons, retreats into a sullen silence. Her mother, Annie, latches onto the idea that a horse trainer named Tom Booker can solve all their problems, and of course she's more or less right because that's the way this sort of predictable pop fiction is supposed to go. Also in the pop fiction formula, Annie (a married woman) has an affair with Booker (a' la _Bridges of Madison County_). There is some good verisimilitude in the horse training, and it is the case that horse training clinicians like Tom Booker are much in vogue now, but they do not generally include psychological counseling and/or sex among their services as he appearently does. Anyway, the grand anticlimax is one of the most riddiculous scenes I've read outside the _Black Stallion_ novels and is best unmentioned. The book has its good points, but it was essentially engineered to pull at the heartstrings while neglecting things like believability. As for the heartstrings part, I was more inclined to laugh aloud hysterically at the "tragic" ending. It you're at all picky about things like plot believability, this book will probably just disappoint you