Water for Elephants...Take 5

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I bought this book back in 2007.  I just couldn't get it started though.  The prologue put my mind on auto pilot so quickly I would finish it and not remember anything that I read. 

Last week, (since I saw the previews for the movie) I decided to download it on my Nook and give it another try.  The first chapter reminded me of my grandpa and I cannot wait to read to more.

Here's the passage that hooked me(which actually has nothing to do with my Grandpa)...

"When you are five, you know your age down to the month.  Even in your twenties you know how old you are.  I'm twenty three, you say, or maybe twenty-seven.  But then in your thirties something strange starts to happen.  It's a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation.  How old are you?  Oh, I'm----you start confidently, but then you stop.  You were going to say thirty-three, but you're not.  You're thirty-five.  And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end.  It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it."

I cannot wait to get further into this book. I think this book, in my life now is a true testament to timing.  And just because something or someone isn't the right fit right now; it doesn't mean it/they won't be later :) 

Have any of you read this book?  What did you think?