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I had high expectations for this book, which always adds pressure to a reading experience. I found the novel appealing with angry ant Holden reminding me in some ways of myself during high school, but I must confess that I missed the key message of this story. The characters lacked visible face for me, and the timeline of two or three days was a contributing obstacle. The “up yours” attitude of Holden’s towards authority is a feeling all reading can relate to in their own ways. But I am still unsure what I was supposed to feel or understand better by the conclusion of this book. A decent novel, but it didn’t sizzle for me. Nicholas R.W. Henning – Australian Author.
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I come here to write this review, of course, “very late”….and so, perhaps many will not read what I have to say about this book.

Being an avid reader, with interests all over the “map” so to speak, I have read God-Knows-How-Many stories in my 62+ years. Some deeply moving, others barely creating or leaving the slightest ripple in my conscious brain. Some, seemingly, with the power to change the way I see things or think about things…sometimes subtly, and in others there are major thought differences after finishing the book. This book has affected me deeply.

The last book to touch me this way was some months back when I read “The Piano Shop on the Left Bank” by Thad Carhart The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier which I heartily recommend to you.

With “Water for Elephants” Sara Gruen creates the long-forgotten days of the Train Circus, and all that life entailed in those days…from the impossible “set-ups”, “knock-downs”, and in many cases “hasty retreats” from any particular chosen town before the authorities arrived upon the scene.

“Hard Luck Days” certainly would be a fitting genre to place this awesome story into. And, of course, with the depression, etc., they truly were hard luck days, for everyone involved with the exception of perhaps Uncle Al with his penchant for stealing, skimming, using and abusing everyone on the show. We also come to know August and his sickness that continually creates misery and unhappiness both for him, and also for those closest to him. There is Marlena, August’s wife and performing partner with her performing horses, and later her act with Rosie the Elephant (a charming, and all-knowing wonderful beast if ever there was one). There are dozens and dozens of other characters, distributed throughout all levels of the show, from performers right on down to the dung-shovelers and the guys who do nothing but put up and take down the tents for the big top, day in and day out endless
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