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did enjoy this book, To be specific, I enjoyed the storylinea family in England buys a small rundown zoo and works to get it licensed and started up again in the midst of a family tragedy.
Now that being said, this book was in serious need of a good editor with lots of red ink, At times it did not flow logically and suffered from a severe overuse of parentheses, Rarely was there a simple sentence containing one uninterrupted thought, And it was downright aggravating that the author would comment "more on that later" and then never get to the more part.
In reading this book, I often felt like this was just the first draft with notes to the author and editor inserted randomly within the text.
Even more aggravating to an anal reader was the lack of consistency in names for example, is the elderly serval's name Gilly or Jilly Pick one and stick with it.
I give this book two solely because it is a heartwarming story, but I do hope that Mr, Mee employs a good editor before another such undertaking, Alright, so normally I don't pick up a book and read it all the way trough in one or one and a little sitting unless it's captivating and usually fiction.
Yet, this non fiction book on one man's experience in buying a zoo I read fromam toam and then the lastafter I woke up at noon.
Finished the whole thing beforepm,

And I don't know why,

Certainly I've been reading some crazy shit lately: sitelinkJohn Dies at the End fucked up fiction which is screwing with my sense of insanity, sitelinkThe Erotic Adventures of Ambrose Horne an extremely odd revitalization of Sherlock Holmes with a very erotic twist, sitelinkAnnabel fiction work about a hermaphrodite Innuit child, sitelinkThe Rose Garden historicalromancescifitime traveladventure fiction which makes me question both time travel and love, sitelinkSlave Species of God non fiction trying to explain our origins as well as countless of crazy website blogs and posts mostly focusing on reddit and crack.
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My point was that all these crazy things have gotten my mind spinning and yet I stay up an entire night to read an albeit rather humerus account of a man acquiring a run down zoo against all odds and all the crazy things that happen when you decide to do something so majorly insane.


All I know is that one day, I'd given the chance, I too will buy a zoo, Hopefully I too will have amazing encounters with wolves escaping, jaguars tearing through containers and ballistic monkeys, But if I can't have that, I definitely will continue to visit zoo's and animal parks and happily endorse them with plenty of cash spent.
Why Because not only did this book show me how incredibly ballsy and clinically insane you have to be to buy a zoo, but also that it's one of the best things you could do for animals at this time.


I'd always been one I'd those people who'd happily debate on keeping animals locked up in fake environments vs.
freeing them to be hunted and poached and driven to extinction, I think I've finally found my footing on this issue, and it's on the sides of the animals,

I plan to watch this movie / tv show, And if I'm ever in England I am definitely stopping by to invisibly help continue this amazing endeavor, That said, I still like fiction works more, but this book gripped my heart, Once the family bought the zoo, I enjoyed this book a great deal, However, it was very slow starting, The opening chapter deals with life in France, as the author's wife is diagnosed with a brain tumor, I'm sure it was very important to the author to include this, but it would have served the book better if it had been covered later in the book as a look back.
It dragged the book down and made me reluctant to continue,

I run a movie club and we are going to see the movie, I like to read the book in advance whenever possible, so I forged ahead, The pace picked up considerably at Chapter, The anecdotes about getting the zoo ready to reopen were entertaining, There were a couple of instances where the author said something like "but more on that later" but then never returned to the subject, so far as I could tell.
I sometimes felt like I was reading an abridged copy of the book, I don't know if editors took something out without realizing there were earlier references, or if the author did get back to the topics but not in an obvious way that I picked up on, but these occurrences niggled at me.


If you are interested in learning more about the Dartmoor Zoological Park, We Bought a Zoo is worth reading.
Benjamin Mee and his family decide to buy a run down zoo in Dartmoor, England, In the midst learning about the zoo and preparing for opening day, Ben's wife Katherine suffers a recurrence of a brain tumor and passes away.
It was fun reading about the different animals and experiences around the zoo, but it seemed to be disjointed at times.
I still enjoyed the book though and reading about their future plans for the zoo and animal conservation, Benjamin Mee is a British journalist, writing to known papers like The Guardian, In, together with his family, he bought a zoo and that is what the book "We bought a Zoo" is about.
Mee talks in it about the initial period of running it, or rather its preparation for the official opening, because the facility required renovation and reobtaining a license to run.


For me, the author wasted the potential for a really cool book, It is both about the choice of content and the style in which it was written, In "We bought a Zoo" a lot of space is occupied by the description of financial and administrative problems, including problems with obtaining credit and renewing licenses, problems with banks and officials.
Mee writes with real pleasure about all renovation and construction works at the zoo no wonder, since he professionally writes articles about DIY.
You can learn from these stories what you need to pay attention to when designing a zoo, although Mee also writes about renovations at home, workshop or restaurant.
Detailed descriptions of how and where someone hit the nail and with what tool drove me crazy as well as other detailed descriptions of uninteresting activities or events, such as garbage disposal.


In "We bought a zoo" we can also read about various theories about biophilia, ecosystem, biodiversity and the role of zoos.
Only the animals in this book are scarce a few stories, somewhere in the background, mostly about escapes of predators and chasing them.


The book is also full of meaningless phrases: business plan, facing a huge challenge, identity and ethos when it comes to the name for the zoo, profit optimization, risk minimization, comprehensive analysis of the situation.
And throughout the book you get a rigid, official language, as if reading a report or a management manual, This bothered me the most somehow it was difficult for me to find the humor or excess of emotions mentioned in the official description of the book.


Mee saved the Dartmoor Zoo, and I praise him for his love of animals, However, he definitely does not have a writing talent or gift of storytelling, His style is heavy, he was able to change an life interesting story into a boring report which is surprising, since he's a professional journalist.
While I basically liked this book, I did have several problems with it, The author would frequently say something like "but more on that later" but then Mr, Mee never returned to the subject, This happened frequently towards the end of the book, I hated this aspect of the book, Another issue, I had problems with Mr, Mee going on about money complaints and dealings with back room boys and others, He was beating a dead horse with some of his story, It was like he was trying to think of what to write and just didn't have enough to make a complete book.
I would have enjoyed hearing more about the animals and the daily life of what it is like to own a Zoo.
Come on, who wouldn't have loved to own a Zoo Mr, Mee made it extremely boring, After loving the movie so much, it is difficult for me to give this bookstars, I thought and hoped I would be able to proudly give itshining,

The book is not entirely bad, Benjamin Mee

wrote as a journalist would the style was flowing, easytoread, a bit witty, and has a pretty good play of words.
It was perhaps the focus of the book and the diversion from the movie or rather, viceversa the movie diverted from the book that made it a little disappointing.
I was expecting to read and know more about the characters, the dynamic relationships, and the drama they had to go through to save the zoo.
But the book focused more on the animals, the specific care for them, the idiosyncrasies of each specie and I do not have a particular fondness for lions, flamingos, otters, and snakes just to name a few that is why it was a bit difficult to get to the end.


This book was my bed companion having bedtime as the only time for leisure reading and it surely did a good job of lulling me to sleep.


It sounds that bad, huh, Yet, i would still give itto give credit to the extraordinary experience the family went through and the journalistic style of Mr.
Mee. I'm so excited! I am receiving 'We Bought a Zoo' by Benjamin Mee, as a gift through Goodreads Giveaways and Mandy.
Today my husband and I just purchased the movie and I'm more than thrilled and cannot wait to receive, read and review the book.
Thank you so much. I feel like a lottery winner!!

I liked this book! There were laugh out loud moments and welldeserved triumphs.


I read a previous review where it was stated that the reader felt that Mee was not very likable in the book.
I thought and I haven't seen the movie yet that Mee was very personable, I felt that he was appropriately bereaved over the loss of his wife, I loved that he was an honorable and compassionate advocate on behalf of the zoo's exotic inhabitants,

I learned much about the intricacies of owning a business open to the public, in particular, I learned a lot in general,

If I had one criticism it would be that at times I felt a little overwhelmed by the business plan details and would have preferred more about the animals.


Benjamin Mee is a gifted writer,

And on a final note, 'Who knew a meat pie was also known as a pasty' I was under the impression that pasties were something entirely different! 'The Great Pasty Debate!' Too funny!!!

Thank you, Goodreads and Mandy for the gracious gifts, both the book and the movie.


½ This is a review of the audiobook, This was narrated by Gildart Jackson, who does a decent job of reading this memoir, However, he pretty much sounds like he is talking from a lectern, if somewhat informally, In his defense, this is in large part due to the way the author wrote the story,

I can see why this book would make a good movie, Nevertheless, the book spends a lot of time on Mr, Mees troubles with wills, bank loans, finances, and his wife's illness and death, when sorry to say I wanted to hear more about the animals and the human interaction between them.
I also couldnt help feeling that the author was a “wanttobefamouswriter” and was just using this adventure as a vehicle for that agenda.
Maybe Im being too harsh, sigh
Benjamin Mees mother was looking to downsize after her husband passed away, but when a unique opportunity to own and manage the Dartmoor Wildlife Park in England was brought to her attention, she and her adult children and grandchildren decided to bid on it.
Several attempts to secure the zoo ended in failure, but the family was finally able to purchase it in, refurbish it, and open to great success! in July of.
During that time, Ben lost his beloved wife Katherine to cancer, and had to make many difficult decisions concerning theanimals that were now in his care.
This is a touching and empowering story of a familys rather whimsical decision to throw caution to the wind and concentrate their efforts and energy on revitalizing a failing zoo.
May we all be so lucky with our endeavors and enjoy as did Mee and his family the fruits of our labors.
Part of what I'm writing is a review of the book, and part of it is a review of the reviews of the book.
First of all, a disclaimer: I am primarily, by personal choice, a fiction reader, but I do know that one must bring different reading skills and expectations to a nonfiction account than to a novel.
This book is exactly what it says, the story of a young British family living in France think of some of those House Hunters International episodes from HGTV.
The father is a writer of DIY articles who has a longstanding project going of writing about animal behavior the mother has a rather varied background in commercial art and design.
The mother is diagnosed with a brain cancer which will be recurring, In spite of this setback, they continue with their plans for a life in France on a remodeled country property.
After his father's death, the opportunity pops up for his family to buy a run down wildlife park in Devon on Dartmoor.
Terribly romantic setting, if you think about stories rather than the prison, Difficulties ensuelegal, financial, etc. Finally get the property. Trials and stories, some sad, some funny, some just factual, of gradually restoring the park and turning it into a conservationminded, financially stable business.


What the book is not It is not the movie, which has departed rather far from the original story in many instances.
It is not a "howto" book on financing a business or animal care, Admittedly, one does pick up little tidbits here and there, such as if one needs to anesthetize a tiger, do not use a sedative designed for a horse.
It is also not a book in which you get the feeling that reallife events have been altered to make them more exciting.
This is a story about an extended family taking a risk and overcoming obstacles and a fairly frank evaluation of what tangible and intangible benefits they have gained from the experience.
The reader gets a good idea of what the author/narrator really detests and what he finds quite satisfactory about the experience.
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