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This is my new favourite book. That's all.
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This was a 4.5 read for me.
A deeply readable gem of a story that had me settled in from the first page to the last.
The words that came to mind when I finished reading were beautifully written, ingeniously plotted and superbly executed.
I thought the storyline was an inventive way for the reader to examine the essence of humanity and how we use human consciousness to live our lives. Granting human consciousness and language to fifteen unsuspecting dogs and seeing what they do with these “gifts” is ...more
A deeply readable gem of a story that had me settled in from the first page to the last.
The words that came to mind when I finished reading were beautifully written, ingeniously plotted and superbly executed.
I thought the storyline was an inventive way for the reader to examine the essence of humanity and how we use human consciousness to live our lives. Granting human consciousness and language to fifteen unsuspecting dogs and seeing what they do with these “gifts” is ...more
Hermes and Apollo met in a Toronto bar one night. They started discussing human intelligence and whether humans were superior to animals. Hermes started wondering if animals, with human intelligence would be happier than humans. Apollo made a bet with Hermes that any animal he chose be given human intelligence would die unhappier than humans, if one died happy he would serve Hermes for a year.
They chose dogs for this experiment, and that night, 15 dogs had the intelligence of humans. The rest o ...more
They chose dogs for this experiment, and that night, 15 dogs had the intelligence of humans. The rest o ...more
I'm not sure I've ever come across a book quite like this one before. At every turn, Alexis managed to surpass my expectations. It was tragic and brutal and beautiful.
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This was a pleasant surprise—a book about dogs that isn’t schmaltzy. Far from it, actually. It’s a fast read that nevertheless gets you thinking and manages to pack an emotional punch. It all starts when the gods Apollo and Hermes make a bet on whether dogs would live and die happier if they possessed human intelligence or whether this would make them even less happier beings than humans. And so the gods grant this consciousness to some dogs in a vet’s office and we follow these dogs around as t
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Unique, and a head scratcher all wrapped into one.
Aug 27, 2015
Jenny
marked it as to-read
Aug 27, 2016
Julie Griffin
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Mar 03, 2017
Erica
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Jul 24, 2019
Natasha
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Nov 10, 2020
Alyson Zikmund
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Feb 09, 2022
Erica Renée
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Jun 13, 2023
Nina ( picturetalk321 )
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