- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Delacorte Press; 1st Edition edition (Sep 11 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385315236
- ISBN-13: 978-0385315234
- Product Dimensions: 16.4 x 3.4 x 24.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 726 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (588 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #433,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Horse Whisperer is a story made in Hollywood heaven. The novel was written by a first-time author, and the film option was snapped up by aging heartthrob Robert Redford for 3 million smackers. Why take such risks on a brand-spanking-new author? The answer becomes clear upon reading the touching tale.
One morning while teenage Grace Maclean is riding Pilgrim, her goofy, loveable pony, she has a horrendous glass-shattering, bone-splintering, ligament-lynching meeting with a megaton truck that leaves her and her four-legged friend damaged in mind, body, and spirit. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, her jaded, brilliant, bitchy mom, Annie Graves (Kristin Scott Thomas in the 1998 film) is working out a wrinkle in her self-absorbed existence when she gets a call at her plush, Manhattan office about Grace's accident. Racked with guilt, Graves makes it her calling to find the mythical horse whisperer, an equine Zen master who has the ability to heal horses (and broken souls) with soothing words and a gentle touch. Just when it seems he can't be found, what do you know, she finds him. He arrives in the form of Tom Booker-- a rugged, sensitive, dreamy cowboy who helps Pilgrim and Grace repair their fractured selves. To add more mesquite to fire, Booker has a way with not-so-injured, attractive, married women--like Annie. As the plot thickens, so does the familial strife, which threatens to undo Booker's healing work.
Like an expert cinematographer, Evans deftly crafts each scene with precision and clarity, sprinkling in ominous signs and foreboding images. For example, in the opening paragraphs, as Annie starts out on the tragic ride, she comes across a bloody bird wing that seems to have fallen out of nowhere. The weight of impending doom is further strengthened by the truck driver's bad luck--he has a run-in with the highway patrol just moments before his meeting with Grace and Pilgrim. These not-so-subtle subliminal messages are masterfully stitched in throughout the story and may compel readers to act as if they were watching a B-grade horror movie, shouting aloud, "Don't go there!" However sentimental, The Horse Whisperer is an engaging read, sort of like a finely tuned, well-edited film. --Rebekah Warren
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3.0 out of 5 stars
ok book - the movie better,
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This review is from: The Horse Whisperer (Paperback)
I finally got around to reading this book - what a bunch of unlikable characters! The mom is pushy, rude, sometimes mean and knows she's the only one in the world who knows whats right for everyone else. This woman would never load up a crazy horse and drive 1/2 way cross the country - she would have just shipped him and sent instructions. And if the horse is as bad as they make him out to be we are to believe they got him in a trailer and she (a non-horse person) handled him for the whole trip? The dad just floats along in her wake. The daughter, who should be the main character, is believeable. Teenagers that age do think the world revolves around them. She believes she is responsible for everything bad thats happening in her world: the accident that damages her and her horse, her parents marriage problems, her mother's affair, even her mother being fired. Anyone with a teenager will relate to the silent treatment. Tom the horse whisperer is a nice man. He smiles quietly as those around him praise him for his genius while just using common sense. It is totally unbelieveable to me that he and mom would get to together. The last chapter or two are totally unbeliviable - too contrived. Give me a break!! The movie ending was 1000% better.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Melodramatic ending ruins an otherwise great book,
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This review is from: The Horse Whisperer (Hardcover)
While I was reading this book, I would have given it 5 stars -- excellent writing, engaging characters, page-turning storyline. Then, it's like someone else decided to finish the book for Evans -- someone who didn't read the first 3/4 of the book. The ending is so ridiculously bad that I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. I don't have difficulty with sad endings, but this ending is too absurd to even be sad. You might as well rent the movie instead. (Something I very rarely recommend.) They created a different ending that actually fits the rest of the book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
This is a wonderful book with a terribly unoriginal ending.,
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This review is from: The Horse Whisperer (Paperback)
This book deserves all its numerous accolades until the reader reaches the last ten or so pages and then the novel is pure garbage. Tom Booker is a noble man who would never let a horse stomp him to death just because he couldn't have a very selfish woman for himself. The horse should have killed the woman and Tom could then have married the horse!
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