Life is the most spectacular show on earth.
Water for Elephants is one of those books you can easily imagine being made into a movie. The book is fast-paced and full of color. It has a dashing hero, a pretty heroine, a mad villain, and rampaging animals. It is filled with stories of friendships, passionate affairs, tragic deaths, and geriatric woes.
Jacob Jancowski is 90. Or 93. He is in a home for the aged. One day, the circus comes to town opening a floodgate of memories. Jacob is swooped back in time when he was 23. This was the year when all changed for him in a flash. One moment, he is a young man, about to take his exams in Cornell, and life looked all rosy and promising. In the next second, he is part of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth and sharing a room in a trailer with a dwarf and his beloved cat.
Jacob will find his two great loves in this circus: Marlena Rosenbluth and Rosie (who turns out, can only follow commands in Polish). Together, the three of them will come up with a brilliant act that almost matches that of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth’s hated rival.
There are several dazzling twists and turns in this book just like in a circus. Water for Elephants will find the reader spellbound and reading long and late into the night.
Yes, a movie has been made based on the book.
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