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The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

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meguniqueuser's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No

1.5

What in the world did I just read??
3/4th of this book were boring, philosophical meanderings, or were not impacted by the dog narrator.
The second quarter of this book was interesting and made good use of Enzo as a dog narrator. He had thoughts about how him being a dogged impacted his life. And his view actually impacted the story and was interesting.
Other than that, I think the book would be more cohesive with a third person narrator. For most of the book the dog narrator had no impact at all and it was almost forgotten except for jarring mentions of it. At some points the author ignores it completely and still has Enzo describe what happened in places he was not present by having him say that he’s just summarizing other people’s accounts.

The ending is very Dues Ex Machina with Denny’s parents appearing out of the blue to offer money and a driver offering him a job. Furthermore, Denny just happens to randomly bump into an accuser and emotionally guilts them into telling the truth.

A lot of the book is spent philosophizing, some of which is interesting or impactful to the story. Most is just meandering and veering toward nonsensical.
The main lesson that was inadvertently emphasized was that sometimes parents are evil. Full stop. Eve’s parents are diabolical, selfish, and unnecessarily mean.

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pageafter_paige's review against another edition

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The way the author writes women is uncomfortable to me. The scene with the 15 year old female cousin seemed creepy and irrelevant to book that’s supposed to be from a dogs pov. I thought this was going to be better and more wholesome I guess? Instead the dog hates women but I don’t see how that’s necessary…

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alexisgarcia's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

while i liked the story being told from the perspective of the dog, some parts of this just made me uncomfortable. there were some really gross comments made about a young teen girl in this which just grossed me out.

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