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I don't think that Merrill Markoe meant to write a work of great literature. This book is *fun*. If you have a good imagination and a sense of play, it's a very entertaining, wonderful book. Merill Markoe's dogs are much wittier and to the point than mine . Read it for fun. I laughed all the way through and have recommended it to all of the playful, imaginative people I know.
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Our protagonist is a romantic loser whose increasingly pathetic existence is dealt a curveball the day her dog begins to talk to her. And not just her dog. She soon realizes she can hold conversations with other dogs as well. And what do all these dogs have to say? Oh, you know, pretty much what you’d expect a dog to say if you’ve read any of those anthromorphic animal comic strips. They offer “hilarious” insights into relationships and life, are able to recognize and identify an Oasis song but,
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I don't ordinarily like books where dogs talk back to people in words, but the thoughts that the dogs in this book have are eerily like what I imagine my own dogs contemplating.
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Jan 03, 2009
Stacy
marked it as to-read
