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Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

Start date: February 1, 2010

Finish date: February 28, 2010

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Aug 14, 2009 Gini rated it it was amazing

I don't like circuses. When I was a kid they were one of those annual small-town events for which everyone was excited and I was pretty much bored. I didn't like clowns, the animal acts bored me, and most tent circuses that visit small towns didn't have the aerial events that were the only thing interesting to me.

But then I spotted a guy in denim and plaid reach through the bars of a lion cage to scratch the beast under the chin like a kitten. From then on I stopped complaining about going to th ...more

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Oct 30, 2008 Cheryl rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I found this book so engaging, I could hardly put it down. There is some serious language and sexual content, so be warned about that. Nonetheless, I thought the story was so interesting and the characters so well developed. The book is told from the eyes of a man (both at the time the events occured and later when the same man is in his nineties and in a nursing home) who worked as a zoo vet. Set in the time of the end of the Great Depression, it brings in much of the perspective of that era, a ...more

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