Comments on: Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen https://readingtheend.com/2007/12/30/water-for-elephants-sara-gruen/ before I read the middle Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:19:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Review: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen https://readingtheend.com/2007/12/30/water-for-elephants-sara-gruen/#comment-14535 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:19:55 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/2007/12/30/water-for-elephants-sara-gruen/#comment-14535 […] Addiction | Books and Movies | Bending Bookshelf | Yule Time Reading | reading comes from writing | Jenny’s Books | Care’s Online Book Club | Farm Lane Books […]

]]> By: jennysbooks https://readingtheend.com/2007/12/30/water-for-elephants-sara-gruen/#comment-14534 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:05:33 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/2007/12/30/water-for-elephants-sara-gruen/#comment-14534 Geek Love? I’ve never even heard of it! But I’ll have to check it out next time I’m at the library — nice to know I’m not alone in being unimpressed by Water for Elephants. 🙂

]]> By: Toryssa https://readingtheend.com/2007/12/30/water-for-elephants-sara-gruen/#comment-14533 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:55:23 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/2007/12/30/water-for-elephants-sara-gruen/#comment-14533 Oh how I hated this book. Because of the premise, a depression-era traveling circus, it should have been brilliant. It should have been full of all kinds of fantastical wonder, but it just wasn’t. Also, all the hype. People LOVE this book. I was so let down. It should have been written as non-fiction, because the parts that she researched (the moonshine paralysis, murdering elephants, etc) were great tidbits… but her fiction, it was lacking something fierce, with terrible characters and stupid love story.

BOO.

That said, have you read GEEK LOVE? It’s also a circus novel, but absolutely brilliant.

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