catherine is just like me

This starts of with an unusual perspective on his rider and life in general - it's a book written in the some places from the horse's point of view, with a wide range of comments from the horse, both funny and historical. And Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer) is as entertaining as ever on

We were perfectly charmed in the beginning, loving Twain's wit and humor, but it felt like a bait and switch at the end. A horse story became a girl story, which became a treatise on the cruelties of bullfighting. We thought we were getting a story about it Buffalo Bill! And it was NOT a happy endin

I do normally enjoy the writing of Mark Twain and find it a welcome change from my usual psychological thrillers that I tend to read. But on this occasion I was disappointed, I had previously enjoyed 'The Dog's tale' and was hoping for something very similar but from a horses perspective but I found

I usually find Mark Twain both funny and to the point, but this tale wanders and is a bit confusing when it jumps around between the viewpoints of different horses and of people. There is a description of a bull fight towards the end that made my stomach clench in horror. Twain is so subtle that it