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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 Item Dimensions: 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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  - A Book I'll Never Forget, Just LovelyGrace, a young teenager and Pilgrim, the horse she loves, are both badly hurt in a terrible accident with a truck on a snowy New England road and neither one can seem to find their way back to life as it was before. Annie, Grace's determined mother, knows Grace and Pilgrim are steadfastly united, that curing the crazed horse will cure Grace's broken spirit too. So, she seeks the aid of Tom Booker, a "horse whisperer," who knows his way into the hearts of animals and people as well. Grace, who lost both her friend and her leg in that accident, has vowed never to ride again. Annie is determined to get her back up on a horse, the horse, and she sends both Grace and Pilgrim to the Booker Ranch in Montana. So Grace not only has to learn how to walk again, but eventually to ride and eventually to ride Pilgrim. This alone would make for a heck of a story, the girl who overcomes her fear, the maddened and crazed horse being made whole again, the girl and horse reforming that bond they once shared. How can you ask for more in a book? But you get so much more in the HORSE WHISPERER, because the heart of the story is about Annie, Tom Booker and a love that cannot be. This book made me cry. It's a book about love, giving and giving up. It's a book I'll never forget. Just lovely. Rating: - The Horse WhispererI have read the book before and watched the movie many times. I just wanted it on audio to listen in my car. It is great Rating:  - well done, but...I thought the book was very well done, some nice touches, some unexpected layers. But two things just don't ring true, small, but annoying: first, the Jewish ex-wife. I don't see Tom's character as having any attraction at all to ... Rachel was it? Nor would she to him. I don't see them even looking at each other and how Evans describes their relationship only seconds that. To me it smells of a first-time author trying to maximize his chances of getting published. Second, Tom's funeral, how hundreds came. Doesn't ring true for a couple of reasons; first, it doesn't seem plausible he would have come in contact with that many people (that many Annies) to have established such great relationships that they would have made such an effort to attend his funeral. (The many people who attended his clinics would not have gone.) And also, how would they have heard about his death in time for them to attend his funeral? He was heroic enough, I felt, without the church overflowing. Rating: - The Best Book I Have Ever ReadTeenager Grace wakes up to a light snowfall and she and her friend Judith decide to go riding, so they saddle their horses and start out on what they expect to be a fun filled morning. However they are struck by a truck. Judith dies and Grace loses a leg as a result of the accident. Pilgram, Grace's horse, is in horrible shape, but Grace's workaholic mother, Annie, refuses to have the horse, who seems to be crazed, destroyed. Annie puts her career on hold to try and save her daughter's spirit and the spirit of the horse she cares for. Annie learns about a mythical horse whisperer who can tame the orneriest of horses with his magical voice and velvet touch. So she loads up Pilgram and takes Grace across country to the Montana ranch of Horse Whisperer Tom Booker. The Booker family accepts Grace as one of their own as they seek to heal her as well as Pilgram. Everything seems to be going well, but then Annie, who is happily married, has an affair with Tom and this book, that has been already wonderful up to his point, turns great and becomes a masterpiece. I don't think I've ever cried so hard. Believe me if this book doesn't warm your heart, your heart is made of stone. You know, I think it very well may be the best book I have ever read, and I say that after each and every time that I finish it. It's just a lovely work of art. Rating: - 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. |
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