The Horse Whisperer

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Summary: a horse lover's adventure
Review: Picture a snowy morning, two girls out horseback riding, completely oblivious to the danger that would befall them and drastically change the lives of themselves and everyone close to them. Evans puts forth a story of an intriguing adventure a young girl and her mother embark on to save the life of the horse the girl has forgotten her love for. Evans entwines a dramatic love story into a tale of the will to survive and protect those we love as he tells the story of Grace and her horse Pilgrim's journey to the point of no return and back again

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Summary: ...no long-term effects, recommended by doctors...
Review: You can read "The Horse Whisperer" in two days. Some people will find this novel highly entertaining, perhaps even moving, others ("real" Westerners in particular) will complain about the romanticized, stereotypical presentation of "Big Sky" Montana and the cheap ending. But "The Horse Whisperer" won't cause any long-term effects, positive or negative, in either group of readers. Reading this novel resembles listening to a Kenny G-tape: you like it or you don't like it, but it certainly won't change your life. "The Horse Whisperer" is a novel written for consumption (Hello, Hollywood!!), not for eternity. From that perspective, we can call Nicholas Evans' bestSELLER a very "modern" novel, no matter if you think it is great reading or just a big waste of time (and money)

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Summary: KEEPS YOU READING
Review: The author depicted the wilderness beautifully. When Tom and Annie finally succumbed to their lust for eachother, it was a thunderous moment. I did not care too much for the way it ended. I found it to be a book of self-discovery and learning. Annie and Tom were from two different worlds and what they shared helped them to discover themselves. Tom helped Annie to "live" again and to regain her relationship with her daughter. It was a beautiful book, but the author should have worked on the ending more rather than suddenly ending it

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Summary: Great potential, unfullfilled
Review: I had mixed emotions to The Horse Whisperer. I think emotion is the operative word in this book. It starts out with so much gut wrenching agony and sorrow that I cried through the entire first half. I really empathized with Annie and her difficult plight. BUT the second half was a real disapointment. While I admit that the sexy scenes were thrilling, etc., I think that the author could have thought up a more imaginative way to heal Annie's broken family than to thrust her into an affair with the books' "healer". YUK. It's like a therapist sleeping with his patient! How sleezy. I truely hope the author's next book stays realistic all the way through and doesn't lapse into self indulgency too much.

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Summary: I thought this was an all around good book.
Review: I thought this was a great book. I enjoyed reading it because not only was it about a horse adventure, but also it was "real," what I mean is that it was not a fairy tale. The beginning of the book was a little hard to understand but you still get the gist of it. Through out the book you get a wide variety of feelings and amotions. At the beginning of the book a girl and her friend go riding, they get lost and then while going up a hill their horses slip on ice. The girl's friend died and so did her horse. Grace lost her leg and Pilgrim got fatally hurt but Annie Graves was so frustrated she said " ...if you kill that horse I will sue you..." Pilgrim doesn't trust people anymore and Grace doesn't like horses hardly at all anymore. Annie takes Grace and Pilgrim across the country to see Tom Booker, a person known to cure wild horses.While at the Double Divide(the Booker's ranch)Annie falls in love with Tom and has an affair with him. The book is about the activities they do to make Pilgrim trust again and Grace to love again. I am lucky I have a huge vocabulary for a seventh grader, for there are a lot of unusual words that many would not understand. I recommend this book to anyone who loves horses,or if you love a good, classic book where you can just curl up into a soft chair and read for hours and still be interested. I really loved this book and you probably will also. There is only one way you won't be able to enjoy this book, if you don't take the short time to read it.

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Summary: What about.......
Review: I read the back of The Horse Whisperer and thought, this is going to be a GREAT book. I opened it up and could not stop turning the pages. That is until I got a little over one half of the way through the book. I felt like the author forgot about the little girl. It became a love story instead of a "healing" book. I also felt like the ending was just something the author thought up quickly to end the book, like there was no real meaning to it

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This book was going so well! The characters were well-developed, the plot was interesting. And then suddenly I found myself reading a bad Harlequin. What happened? The writing took a sad turn downhill (for instance, we hear Annie thinking to herself about two hundred times how strangely free of guilt she feels--didn't any of the editors notice that unnecessary repetition?). If you're going to read this book, stop halfway through it so you'll still think it's good.

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Summary: Awesome Book......Awful Ending
Review: As an ecsape for pure enjoyment this book was wonderful. I could hardly put it down. However, the ending was horrible. I felt like Mr. Evans had put his writing down for a year then came back to finish it, in a hurry. I felt so let down. It was if he forgot the essence of Tom Booker in a rush to finish the book. There is no way Tom would have subjected Grace to his grisley death after what she had been through already. It wasn't in keeping with the character he went to such detail to develop. All of my friends that have read this book were so dissapointed. Please write another book Mr. Evans, you are an enjoyable read, but see your readers all the way through to the end for their effort.

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Summary: Bridges without the emotion
Review: The first half drug along like a "Tragedy of the Week" tv movie. The second half had the potential of portraying life choices made for the benefit of the many at the cost of a few portrayed so brillantly in "Bridges of Madison County". And just as I got interested, the whole muddled mess was wrapped up in two chapters with a death, the emotional "maturity" of a child who had reacted like a brat throughout the rest of the book and an illegitimate baby accepted and loved by the whole lot! It reminded me of a good book given the "Mini-series treatment" by Hollywood - meander along for four nights and wrap it up in the last ten minutes. Don't waste your time, read Waller instead!

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Summary: If you've read "Bridges," you've read half this book already
Review: Our reader's club at work selected this book based on the hope of encountering some mystical explanation of healing and suffering, with perhaps insights into human behavior. Not so. It ended up being a dressed-up romance novel. The book was adequately written with positive male performances. But the women readers took a quick dislike to the heroine, and branded her a flake; they were unable to connect with her and her rationale. The ending was unsatisfying and abrupt