Friday, March 11, 2011

Water for Elephants


So this book was suppose to be our new book club book, but I had to veto it because of content. Warning chapter 3 is a very descriptive stripper scene. Not really appropriate for a church book club. Also it is laced with the f-word. All in all it really is on the morally low books, the plot is an affair and a murder, you get the picture. While I wouldn't recommended the book, the author's notes on the book were fascinating. She studied circus's in the 1930's. There are real photo's and some of the plot was based around actual events. The circus's back then truly were a freak show. From parasitic twins, to electrocution of elephants (no animal rights) it was graphically fascinating to me. I would recommend reading the research the author put into this book. But the book itself a little to crass for me.

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