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Water for Elephants | 
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Author: Sara Gruen
Publisher: Hodder Paperback
Category: Book
Buy Used: $12.94
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1417 reviews
Sales Rank: 702147
Format: Import
Media: Paperback
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0340962720
EAN: 9780340962725
ASIN: 0340962720
Publication Date: February 7, 2008
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 wonderfully entertaining August 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read this in a week at the beach and it was so easy to get lost in the story. It is wild, but with so much heart, sprinkled with a little humor. Oh, and you will want a pet elephant when you are finished reading.
 Wonderful Read! August 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just finished this book last night & must say that I am sorry that it's over. Just loved it!!!
Great Book August 18, 2008
I loved this book. I am 59 years old yet - which is a constant surprise to me. I can SO identify with a 93 year old who still is young inside. This book has definitely made me rethink how we treat the elderly.
 Did not meet my expectations August 18, 2008
Im sorry but this book was in a word....dull. It starts strong but about a hundred pages in, it becomes an endurance test and I really had to force myself to finish it.
More than I expected August 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Picked up this book to read based on the fact it was a local Book Club's Selection. Immediately was drawn into it and read it in a day. Book is 331 pages and for me it read quickly.
My opinion the book is that it is thought provoking and also educational - communicated through the day to day thoughts of a man now facing the day to day realities and drawbacks of living in an "Assisted Living" facility.
Gruen is able to effectively weave a lot of bittersweet humor into her character and has also imparted quite a bit of history of the period of the Great Depression and also circus life.
Read thru the ratings that were less than 3 star - guess it goes to show we all have different tastes. The reviewer who stessed going back to the old classics made me remember dry, horrible, rambling selections that to this day I do not value.
Water for Elephants goes beyond boy meets girl, falls in love with girl, walks into the sunset hand in hand. The interjection of the character in his later years keeps the book flowing and gives the reader a chance to develop empathy for the main character.
The end is upbeat - seems a bit unbelievable - but then again it keeps the "spark" of the book burning bright.
Looking forward to more reading from Sara Gruen.
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