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Summary: Nichlas Evans is truly gifted ...
Review: As he did in The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans has once again seen and expressed the world through the eyes of the animals who share our world. There were several scenes that were difficult for me to read in The Loop, but Mr. Evans has the compassion to write from the heart, and I, like Luke in the book, am ashamed of how our ancestors destroyed these wild creatures and how they are misunderstood. I enjoyed many of the main characters in the book. They came alive on the page and I could clearly see them in my mind's eye. I found it difficult to put The Loop down. I cried and I smiled throughout reading it. Once again, Nicholas Evans has given us an extraordinary example of his talent.
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Summary: A warning is needed for some graphic scenes.
Review: I enjoyed this novel. The plight of the wolf has always had a soft spot in my heart... however, I think that the graphic depiction of the "survival of the fittest" scenario, does warrant a warning of some kind for the faint of heart...I did find the ending predictable...
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Summary: fiction based on non-fiction event
Review: excellent writing style, this fiction classic based on non-fiction events in the mid-west explores non-traditional relationships while exposing true-life adventures.wonderful backup of Horse Whisperer. I love it because is soo true-blue.
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Summary: Wolf behavior was inaccurate.
Review: Nicholas Evans lost complete credibility in the first pages of The Loop by his depiction of wolf behavior. A wolf would never entertain the idea of a confrontation with a human as Mr. Evans had the wolf in his opening pages do. Only a rabid wolf would have acted in the way this wolf did, and that was not an explanation given. This type of misinformation does a lot of harm as people who are not knowledgable about wolf behavior read it, believe it and fuel a misunderstanding of what a wolf is capable of doing. Mr. Evans made this same type of mistake in the latter portion of The Horse Whisperer when, contrary to the main character's ideals, the horse was totally tied and forced into submission. This would never have happened with a "real" horse whisperer. Mr. Evans is a potentially talented writer, but lazily reinvents facts or behaviors that are false and/or misleading. I won't purchase Mr. Evans' next book because of this major fault in his writing.
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Summary: Boring, stereotypic characters
Review: The protagonist (female) is suffering from rejection in an insipid romance, goes to wolf country to heal, discovers who is the big bad wolf (local powerful macho rancher) and falls in love with sensitive, stuttering son of the stereotypic bad guy. Boring, boring, boring. The BEST character in the whole book was the woman's dog.
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Summary: Depressing people
Review: I read "The Loop" after the well-minded suggestion of a friend. It seemed to me that everybody in The Loop scenery is divorced or absolutely worried about their own egos. From the spiritual point of view, I found it depressing: no normal people and no valuable spiritual growing up to the end. "The selfish gene theory" in the first chapters and the insistent description of Mr. Buck Calder as a sexual glutton were EVERYTHING I needed to have a nice reading ;-( Unfortunately we can not put a "zero" star in the score. If you really like people and wolves, I believe you'll not like this book.
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Summary: This is another Romance by Nicholas Evans.
Review: This book was, like The Horse Whisperer, a great disappointment. It is basically a Romance, with stereotyped, two dimensional characters. As in the Horse Whisperer, the parts about animals are true only in general, and that information is neither new nor original. I don't know a single horse person who liked the Horse Whisperer, and I suspect few wolf afficionados will like The Loop. It's insultingly shallow about both environmentalists and ranchers, not to mention wolves.
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Summary: Excellent character development with much intrigue
Review: Another of Evans' wonderful dramas with real human characters and the real trials and tribulations associated with life and living. The plot was exciting as was the storyline. There was never any question of understanding the feelings of the characters and beliving they were real. The story was a real page-turner, a book not to be put down until finished!!!
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Summary: Lazy plot and sterotypes make for unfun reading
Review: If you can handle the slow plot and the amount of character-backfilling that slows it even more, and the lame evocations of TV soap characters (Buck=J.R.) you are rewarded with a ridiculous ending. I couldn't stand reading past page 140 so I peeked at the end. There is some passable passages about the wolves and nature but not enough to compensate. How does an author like this get published anyway?
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Summary: Gave me a good perspective of wolve reentry program.
Review: Got my interest right away. I enjoy books on animals and the outdoors. The characters were interesting and believable. Had a hard time putting the book down. Would readily recommend this book to friends.
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