Water for Elephants

I'm not too sure why everyone I've talked to loved this book so much. I liked it, it entertained me, but I wouldn't say I loved it and can't wait for the movie to come out.

The simple twist of the story was excellent and quite surprising and I was upset and saddened at the appropriate times, but to me it was just your average against all odds love story set to a circus life backdrop. I felt like Jacob was slightly annoying as a 23 year old, but charming and endearing as a 93 year old. Marlena was quite one dimensional. Maybe because the story is told from only Jacob's perspective we don't really get the full effect of all the surrounding characters, but I would have liked to have known more about Marlena, August, Walter & Camel.

But I guess that's the mystery of the whole thing, isn't it? Knowing the story only as well as your narrator knows it.