Book Review: Water for Elephants

Whelp... I now know what goes on in the head of a boy around my age... SEX! I'm probably not going to use that word too much on my blog. It just seems to strange to type it S-E-X. WHEW! Anywho let's just say I spent a lot of this book clutching my metaphorical grandmother strand of pearls and going "oh my". This is one of the issues in reading a book. Sometimes you get to deep into characters heads. This guys looses his parents, drops out of Ivy league, and hops on a train. A train that just happens to be a circus when he was going to College to be a vet. COINCIDENCE? My cynical mind says NO! He spends this book pining for the girl he loves but can't have because she's married to a psycho. A "i'll throw you off a moving train" psycho. I actually did feel for the two of them though. They were meant for each other. I'm not going to give away too much of the book because I honestly would recommend it. From a historical look of circus' through the depression it is fantastic! What I am going to do is rant like I did after I watched the movie. Firstly, it is altogether creepy to watch Reese (pointy-chinned but beautiful) Witherspoon hit on the sparkly guy from Twilight. Secondly, they erased the owner of the circus Uncle Al and thus changed how we looked at her evil husband: driven by money not by Marlena obsession. Thirdly, they made the Marlena into a sad orphan, when in the book she left a pampered life to join the circus, thus giving her the gumption to be able to do that rather than tossing her into something she had no idea how to handle (sorry for the run-on sentence but it is pivital in a rant). Fourthly, the elephant was not mischevious enough. DANG in the book that elephant got into some shenanigans. So what I would say is read the book or watch the movie but heavens to betsey don't do both or you'll turn into a maniac like me!