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The Horse Whisperer
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Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553502206
Edition: Unabridged
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN: 0553502204
Label: Random House Audio
Manufacturer: Random House Audio
Number Of Items: 10
Publication Date: May 04, 1998
Publisher: Random House Audio
Release Date: May 04, 1998
Studio: Random House Audio
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Editorial Review:
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
A child wounded in body and spirit...
A horse driven mad by pain...
A woman fighting to save them both...
And the man who is their only hope...His name is Tom Booker. His voice can calm wild horses, his touch can heal broken spirits. And Annie Graves has traveled across a continent to the Booker ranch in Montana, desperate to heal her injured daughter, the girl's savage horse, and her own wounded heart. She comes for hope. She comes for her child. And beneath the wide Montana sky, she comes to him for what no one else can give her: a reason to believe...Frank Muller has narrated more than 120 audiobooks and has received numerous awards in recognition of his achievements, including the award for best unabridged fiction audiobook of 1995 from Publishers Weekly, the Listener's Choice Audio award from the Audio Publishers Association, and various Earphone awards from the audio publication AudioFile. His television credits include Law and Order, Life Goes On, Harry and the Hendersons and All My Children. He can be heard on other BDD Audio unabridged productions including John Grisham's The Runaway Jury, The Partner, and The Street Lawyer.
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Rating:  - The Horse Whisperer paperback
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Rating: - The Horse Whisper
I loved this book, and was thoroughly delighted with it as excellent fiction. I was impacted from start to end, even after treasuring the film version. I saw different character development, which was fine for these imperfect people. They healed while the horse did; that was the point. The love affair was poignant, and I felt both Tom and Annie fought their passionate emotions for each other as long as humanly possible. They were both so flawed in their love lives' history of the past, that ... Read More
Rating:  - Utter Horse manure
Don't be fooled this is not a book about true romance and soul healing.
It's dark, brooding and love manifests in nothing more than primordial lust. There is nothing enchanting or mystical about the Horse Whisperer himself it just seems he's on a quest to get into Anne's pants. Whore whisperer is more like it. This book made me feel depressed like there was a dark cloud looming over me every page I read. Mindless,dark,and paticularly disturbing at some parts. The Horse was not as deranged as ... Read More
Rating:  - Everything is in slow motion
I spent about one hour on the first 150 pages and was disappointed so much that I decided to skip to chapter 15 which was page 207. And only then things start to happen, but not quite! What a slow reading! Nothing was interesting before this far. Everything was in slow motion. There were about 15 lines of dialog in the first 20 pages. I studied literature at university and I guess I know a little bit. I think most of the writers of our time do not know their business. Why should you tell the readers ... Read More
Rating:  - "I Hear You've Found Me a Whisperer..."
I can easily see why "The Horse Whisperer" became a bestseller. It is a poignant story of tragedy and healing, one that moves at a quick pace, manages to be both predictable in its overarching story, yet surprising in its details, and is told in clear - though somewhat bland - prose. It is by no means great literature, but as a holiday or `cold winter night' read, it fits the bill.
Thirteen-year old Grace Mclean is the victim of a horrific horse-riding accident (involving ice, a truck and ... Read More
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