Last week I read Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. I am not sure what genre it would be counted as because it does not count toward my forty books. The story takes place in present day as told by the main character Jacob Jankowski. He tells the story at the point of view of a 93 year old man reflecting on his past life. The story is about Jacob and how at age 23 he ran away from his life that unexpectedly turned upside down. There are dramatic twists that the reader would never have seen coming. The book caught my eye from page one, and within two days the 400 page story was down. I highly recommend it to anyone, although there a couple of explicit parts here and there it is astounding.
Water for Elephants has already come out in theaters, but in my opinion there were some miscasts here and there. I chose to recast Jacob, Marlena, August, and Uncle Al. For Jacob I chose Alex Pettyfer. He is a good looking young blonde with a lot of spunk and personality. Pettyfer also starred in the movie I Am Number Four where he played John. I chose Scarlett Johansson for Marlena because she fits her personality and beauty as described by Sara Gruen. The perfect August would have to be Billy Zane. I chose him based off his performance in Titanic. In the book August just absolutely makes your skin crawl because of the way he acts, which reminded me of Cal in Titanic. Finally, Uncle Al. who is not in the movie, would be Terry O'Quinn who played John Locke in the famous T.V. series Lost. His shady ways reminded exactly of Uncle Al.
