But I think that some of that stems from being someone who was living with the vast uncertainty of not knowing how to make his way in the world and looking for something very concrete to latch onto. Maybe the thing that bothered me was that he seems to often overthink things-reading the tortuous confusion he expresses over the technically correct way to ride kind of stressed me out. That being said, this is clearly the work of someone who was looking for answers in earnest, who is truly eager to learn, and who loves horses and wants to balance their needs and desires with his own pursuit of success. There was also a distinct feeling that the chapters were individual pieces strung together to form a book (which is likely true, since at least some of them were previously published articles), which sometimes affected the cohesion of the narrative. There were times during reading this that, for reasons I can’t exactly put my finger on, the author or his writing rubbed me the wrong way.
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