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Take a grief-stricken veterinary student and add a depression-era circus - mix in a dwarf, an elephant and a lovely equestrian - and you have Water for Elephants. This story is told in a retrospective manner - Jacob is ninety (or is it ninety-three?) and he's in an assisted living facility when the circus sets up a block down the street. This novel evokes the feel of the circus and their workers, both performers and the roustabouts. Jacob straddles the line as their almost-graduated veterinarian
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I read this book and loved it. I loved the love story. And the trials that he went through to get the love of his life. I can't imagine what people back then really went through. I loved the story. And I will probably re-read it.
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This book has been on every must read list I've seen for months, so I figured it was time to stop procrastinating and get to it. I didn't have a real expectation for this book other than a love affair. I think it's a good thing I went in almost blindly.
The first half of the novel took me a while. At first I really wasn't connecting; there was just so much to the set up of the real conflict. The second half moved way faster and was able to keep my attention enough for me to finish it (the last h ...more
The first half of the novel took me a while. At first I really wasn't connecting; there was just so much to the set up of the real conflict. The second half moved way faster and was able to keep my attention enough for me to finish it (the last h ...more
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