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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126742.Sight_Hound_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Sight Hound: A Novel" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1171921837m/126742.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126742.Sight_Hound_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Sight Hound: A Novel</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/72819.Pam_Houston">Pam Houston</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7139503?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>I wanted to read this book because I noticed it had been on the Green Apple staff picks list. I also thought maybe it would be good for me because one of the main characters was a dog, and I just got a dog. But unfortunately for me, I wanted to put the thing down after the first 20 pages. Somehow I managed to slog my way through the rest until the end (I always do this, I always hold out the hope that something might get better, but usually, as I was in this case, I am wrong). The book had its moments, but when I say "moments" I mean Hallmark moment ABC After School special kind of moments. It was sappy and sweet and full of a rawr rawr kind of lesbian-hetero-canine feminism that I didn't understand or relate to. <br/> <br/>Maybe that's not quite fair. It did have its real moments. I liked one of the vet characters, and the dog narration was touching in its own way. But the main character/narrator had a really annoying habit of complete self-absorption that made it pretty clear that Pam Houston is probably not too far off from the same, and that just made the whole experience of reading that much worse. In addition, main character/narrator kept exoticizing Tibet, Mongolia, Bhutan, and other Far Eastern exotic travel destinations a la westerner-that-is-yearning-to-find-themselves-I-mean-really-find-themselves, that was annoying. Pam Houston, sadly, seems to be not too far off from a certain kind of old-school hippie or me-generation yuppie middle-aged self-described Buddhist womyn with 30 bumper stickers on the bumper of her car. I ran into enough people like this during my senior year of college to last me for the rest of my life, thank you very much. <br/> <br/>Bottom line, I just don't think I am the right age, ethnicity, class, or background to read and have really enjoyed this book. But late 30-something, early 40-something hippies/yuppies whose lives revolve around therapy, their dogs, and themselves, would probably enjoy it. And are welcome to it. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/17719?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>