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The Horse Whisperer
by: Nicholas Evans |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780440222651 Edition: First Thus ISBN: 0440222656 Label: Dell Manufacturer: Dell Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: October 01, 1996 Publisher: Dell Release Date: October 01, 1996 Studio: Dell Features:
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  - Better than the moviePeter Coyote delivers the narrative with sensitivity and excellent characterizations. It is a powerful story from the very first chapter and continues to be so on many levels. The movie substituted a very weak ending so if you saw that be prepared for the author's own, much stronger finish. Rating:  - Healing and InspirationAfter reading a new book, "Spirit Horses" by Alan Evans,which I absolutely loved, I felt compelled to go back and read this classic "horse" book. What can I say, I loved them both as will anyone who has a passion for horses and/or an inspirational story. I wish we had more "Horse Whisterers" and "Spirit Horses". Spirit Horses Rating:  - Annoying and TackyThis book is just bad all around. The characters are Grace, a girl who is badly injured in a riding accident, her powerful New York magazine-editor mother, the horse Pilgrim (also injured in the accident), her saintly father, and a horse trainer named Tom Booker. Supposedly this is about healing. Mother goes out to Booker's ranch in the west with Grace and Pilgrim. Booker helps Grace and Pilgrim get back in the saddle, OK, but Mother has an affair with Booker for no good reason. She just seems trashy for doing it and how trashing her marriage to a perfectly good guy is supposed to be "healing" I can't imagine. Grace is a sulking brat. The father is too good to be true. Tom Booker is not believable in his interactions with people or horses. The symbolism is infantile and heavy-handed. (Come on, "Grace" and "Pilgrim" as the names of the girl and the horse, spare me.) The writing is atrocious. I finished it but I wish I had my time back, and I was so embarrassed to have read it I would not pass it on to anyone. A disgrace to the guilty pleasure genre. Rating: - umI don't think it's appropriate to use the word "bitchy" to describe a female character in an amazon.com review. Rating:  - Message not clearBeing a horse owner myself, reading the book was a must as well as seeing the movie. I preferred the book though to the movie. I just re-read the book many years later and for some reason I do not remember the affair. I am now older and wiser and have to say the book was very disturbing and the message very immoral. Also, the ending was way too tidy. The interaction between horse and human is memorable though. This book is not intended for the typical young, horse-loving girl. |
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