Yes, I realised my error when I checked the spelling. The video is pretty wild.
Sara reviewed his first book.
1 Like
Please stop dragging daughters and family members into this. Not cool.
Please stop even suggesting that you contact the woman who wrote the âforwardâ. Seriously??!!
You (g) are behaving the way NP wants you to behave⊠how is that appropriate? Why feed into his endless conspiracy theories?
This thread has ZERO to do with dressage at this point and should be in Off TopicâŠ
21 Likes
My thought on that topic is - does this woman even know her name is being used here.
NP has a history of claiming people say and do things for him when they have not. So it seems totally reasonable to think that maybe he wrote something and picked a personâs name to slap on it.
If someone did that to me, I would want to know.
I canât see why it is so wrong to simply ask this person if they actually wrote this.
10 Likes
Dang, @J-Lu, you beat me! My mail doesnât arrive until this afternoon.
Admittedly, I came sort of late to the NP party. Yet I feel introduced to him by now, especially after reading screen shots of online posts by and about him. Wow.
I want to read the book because Iâve never come across anyone like him in my life. Heâs an anomaly. And maybe-- who knows-- he recounts some encounters from the horse world where he was truly Done Wrong. But the veracity of his writing will have to prove that.
On the other hand, I find it dubious the foreward describes him as being âclassically trained.â By whom? When? Thatâs what I hope to discover. What insights did he glean from formidable trainers and clinicians in order to make him an expert? I also want to read about his love of horses and how he developed a sympathetic connection with his mounts. After all, if he is going to claim that his rightful place in the horse world was denied by a bunch of conspiratorial meanies, I want to see convincing proof of that.
Yet somehow I believe Iâll be mightily disappointed.
13 Likes
If I read a Jane Savoie book with such a forward, Iâd be tempted to contact that person as well. This is a public book about the dressage industry. The thread does not belong in Off Topic. The book would likely get the same treatment if written by a bona-fide Olympian who claims they didnât make the team due to scandalous online swamp people who are depressed and hate men/women.
18 Likes
I love the new review, saying the book is a âquick and easy readâ does not bode well for a book that claims to expose anything! A quick and easy read is a readers digest article while in a waiting room, not from a book which promises much.
I have mixed feelings where this thread belongs, the book is aiming at those in the dressage world who failed to recognize his greatness, so maybe does belong here better than âoff topicâ
6 Likes
Kind of funny that âSabaâ complains about judgment in the dressage world when Nick paid money to BE JUDGED at shows.
âYou have been weighed. You have been measured. And you absolutely have been found wanting.â
13 Likes
I see no problem with this thread being in Dressage, but I have to agree that it is icky to drag family members into it and to speculate that the author of the foreword is a âdishonest, homophobic racistâ based on nothing but association with NP. It feels like sinking to his level.
8 Likes
Geberal comment.
The psychologist is retired.
Iâm not going to read the book, but my question is: does the wording of the introduction read like NP wrote it? Then he did. Does it sound significantly more coherent and unified than his normal writing? Then he didnât write it.
No professionally educated person would spew like NP. Psychologists might not all be the most stylistically gifted writers but they are going to be able to create sentences and are not going to vent like NP.
I think from what Iâve heard it would be very much in character for NP to borrow the name of someone who had retired and was now impossible to contact, and perhaps retired in declining health and would be unlikely to find his book. I have no idea why heâd glom into anyone in particular. I canât imagine he ever sought counselling. Itâs possible he sought these kind of services for evidence or support in a real or imaginary court case.
8 Likes
Looks like the 5 star review has been removedâŠ
12 Likes
Ouch. Thatâs got to hurt.
5 Likes
Agreed.
1 Like
I think his family should be left out of this conversation as well. They have nothing to do with this book.
9 Likes
It makes me wonder if the writer of the âforwardâ was also perhaps that 5 star reviewer? I see the one star has been edited and mentions doing due diligence and a Google search to find out the truthâŠmaybe the five star reviewer saw that and followed through and found out the truth, then deleted their review?
2 Likes
Well, both family members are 18 or older, and the behavior discussed is public. The therapist wrote his forward in the name of her professional reputation. And that is absolutely public
Nobodyâs talking about children, or private family matters. Even with nick, everything discussed is either his behavior, records or writing he has made publicly, or its been personally experienced to a person who has experienced him first hand, and itâs their story to tell. Nick himself published the video of his daughter harassing demonstrators, on a public forum. She was 18 at the time. She did it in public and nick posted the video of her doing it, publicly. His abuse of people, and riders in the industry is hand and glove with his misogyny and amorality. His coaching of daughter is an example of what he has to teach young people and should absolutely be a caution.
17 Likes
Well, Iâm a little disappointed because now Amazon says my copy wonât arrive until Friday afternoon. Maybe they had to put more toner in the copy machine.
14 Likes
Question for J-Lu - exactly how large is the font to make it 197 pages?
3 Likes
Good question. The font looks about 12 pt and the margins are 1.8 inches from the top and bottom, 1 inch in from the sides. The text an a full page is 5.3 inches by about 3.9 inches.There is significant dead space.
ETA: Itâs âtextâ not âteatâ!
3 Likes
Thank you! No doubt itâs a riveting read.
Okay, I couldnât type that with a straight face - but I tried.
6 Likes
Like that which is between the authors ears.
7 Likes
