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Water for Elephants
Tuesday. 4.20.10 12:47 am
I just finished Water for Elephants... which was a great book, really intriguing and captured my attention all the way till the end.

The story is about a boy, Jacob, suddenly without options, who hops a circus train as a way of escape. In the somewhat fantastical world of the circus, Jacob learns about life, death, women, love and himself. This is paired with a narrator subplot of the same boy as an old man in the current day who struggles with the difficulties of getting old and being stuck in a nursing home.

It's not exactly an completely historically accurate book. It misuses the work "F*@#!" for the period and borrows the term "paranoid schizophrenia" from the wrong time period and had it expressed with entirely the wrong features, but... who really can get it all right anyway. Also, I should probably warn you that there are parts of it that run a little like a smutty romance novel.

It's strong points are its unique and complex characters that you quickly come to know and love, it's colorful descriptions that set the stage for the events without boring the hell out of you, and the intense amount of research done in other areas, such as the circus terminology (though I admit, having never been on a circus myself, I cannot truly attest to their accuracy). It is very good with the expression of emotions and infusing the story with reality.

I had a lot of fun reading it. The characters are people and animals that I am happy to have collected into my memory and the world was fantastically generated. It was meaningful without the generally high death toll and insightful without preaching. I think I would confidently recommend this to most anyone who asked about it.
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I love this book too!
Hi!

I read this book when Chris and I were in Ecuador and I really enjoyed it too. Whenever I recommend it to people, I tell them that I skipped the scandalous parts. Haha.

Miss you!

Rachel
» Rachel (98.245.159.47) on 2010-04-21 07:00:12

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