Water for Elephants: A Novel | Sara Gruen | A wonderful story and a great read

Water for Elephants: A Novel | Sara Gruen | Beautiful novel, exquisite writing, very sad

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	Water for Elephants: A Novel Sara Gruen Algonquin Books, 2007 - 350 pages average customer review:based on 1414 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A wonderful story and a great read

This is one of those books you'll want to share. Well written and very interesting as well as entertaining.

Beautiful novel, exquisite writing, very sad

Water for Elephants is an amazing book. The author took my mind into places I just did not want to go, into what it means to be a person at the end of life, still coherent but old and sick and living in a nursing home.

At the end of your life, is that all that's left to hope for, that you end up in a nursing home with kids younger than your grandchildren bossing you around and moving you back to your room against your wishes after an argument with another nursing home resident? Is this what the end of life means, an adult becomes a dependent child who must be bossed around by others, even if that person's mind and intellect are still intact? Wow. Of course I know these things happen, but never in fiction have I seen the final years of a person's life etched to the pages in such an emotional and moving way.

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READ IT !! Just do it !!

A 90+ gentleman (sharp as a tack) in a nursing home watches from the window as a circus comes to town. He takes us back in time to his own "carny" days as a veternarian for the circus animals. So far sounds boring as heck, doesn't it? Well, this is one old gent you come to really like. We learn a lot about the shenanigans behind the scenes of the circus as well as the plight of those during the depression. Again, sounds boring. But this author makes it a story you can't put down. This is a testament to a great writer. I believe she could make the phone book interesting. JUST READ IT !! You won't be disappointed.

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No big deal, still impressionable

I am your casual reader. I read no more than ten books a year. This was the second book I read this year and so far, it's the best book I've read this year but it isn't as good as the reviews say it is. I enjoyed the bits about the old man's life more than I did than when he talked about his youth. Left lurching in an oldage home, this man tries to fend for himself when he's made to sit with a fellow gentleman he doesn't quite like. The only thing the old man knows is that he's old and even goes as far as wishing that the reader never gets to this age. The introduction of the novel is very good and it's easy to read although at times when he's reminiscing, you may get confused. The names of animals and humans can be a tad confusing. This book is a good bet for some while I can think of some people not liking this.

Fellow casual readers, you're not missing much, try Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes. However, for those with piqued interests, you must be wondering why your friends never spoke about this book, I wondered so too, only until I finished reading the book. I think people are liking it more because of how compact it is in encompassing two lives. The author's youthful days are nothing like mine.

P.S - I, in not one way, undermine the collective intelligence of a casual reader for I am one.

Applause,please.

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