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Sara Gruen: Water for Elephants (Paperback, 2007, Algonquin Books) 4 stars

As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that …

Review of 'Water for Elephants' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

The beginning was boring. Really boring. But after around 150 it's getting better.
I really liked the style of writing and the switching between the present and the past.
From the beginning the reader knows that something bad will happen where Jacob tries to find her (he's not mentioning her name) between all the chaos. Seriously I didn't stopped the book because i wanted to know how this scene will end because of its tragedy.
And it was worth waiting for it. The last quarter of the book was extremely thrilling and exciting. I couldn't stop reading and finished this book at ~ 2:30 am.
The ending was a good one. The whole book.. I wished I got hooked in the beginning.
All in all I can't understand why this book is a worldwide bestseller but it's good though.
I put it on the bookshelf "classics" because I suppose this book will be known as classic in the next hundred years :)

Btw, the movie adaptation comes out 2011 with staring Robert Pattinson and Resse Witherspoon. I'm definitely watching it! :)