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72 ratings, 3.69 average rating, 11 reviews
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published
1977
by Bantam Books,
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Paperback
isbn
0553103822
(isbn13: 9780553103823)
description
Sci - Fi Fantasy
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Read in September, 2008
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Read in July, 2008
Once again, here's a book that I might have enjoyed more if I'd read it when I first came across it years ago. Picking it up now, I found it off-putting. In part that's the point of the book, the main character being a rat in a lab that conducts seemingly pointless, always fatal experiments on its subjects. The other narrative thread in the book seems to point toward some kind of animal revolution or spiritual liberation. I found it difficult to enjoy the dark humor, because the cruelty of what ...more
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I read this when I was a kid and it blew a great number of my circuits. Doctor Rat is a Quisling rat in a laboratory full of animals undergoing senseless experiments, often depicted quite graphically. This episodic novel eschews stridency for a very dark satire that gets under the skin. All of the lab-animals are anthropomorphicized, like a Disney film created by sick maniacs on datura. Makes The Secret of NIMH look like Pollyanna.
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Read in April, 2001
recommends it for:
Animal Lovers
The conceit gets a little dragged out in this ridiculous book of animals rebelling against their human betters (due to cruel experiments and environmental degredation). But Dr. Rat is a great character ( a mad lab rat keeping a newsletter of the various experiments on his peers in the lab), and the surreal personification of animals in a lab as they endure outrageous (but sadly realistic) "experiments" is worth a look.
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clever, actually brilliant on some levels, a lab rat with keen awareness of his position life and I believe somewhere homosexual tendencies. This odd little book is something I feel every american must read, preferably by the age of 15..... strange moral doctrine.
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Read in January, 1990
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everyone
A view of animal research from the point of view of Dr. Rat, PhD. It is satirical, and funny, but also a troubling look at the world where humans think everything and everyone else is subordinate to them. This book is a neglected and ignored masterpiece.
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Read in May, 1984
This book made me squirm when I first read it many years ago. But I've learned to appreciate the bizarre humor of it over time. It teaches you a lot about the world we live in (and the creatures we live among).
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Really weird book about experimenting on lab animals. It weaves two stories together that converge (that ol' bit).
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recommends it for:
activists
told from the perspective of a lab rat in an animal testing facility.
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disagreed with the book on almost every level. but it still made me laugh.
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Read in January, 1997
lab animals who rebel against their experimenters. awesome.
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