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A review by jstilts
Three Wild Dogs and the Truth by Markus Zusak
tense
slow-paced
1.0
I disliked this book so much I almost threw it across the room until I remembered I was reading it on my phone.
I had to read this book for work reasons, and it was a slog. It rambles, it has anecdotes within anecdotes, it never fails to fail to get to the point.
You could skip the first 60 pages and not miss a thing. Frankly you could skip a whole lot more. As a fellow dog owner I can still say the subject matter is of very little interest - this guy has dogs. Big deal?
Strangely he's proud of the fact that his dogs are dangerous dogs that he cannot handle. They fight with him in the street. They destroy and chase native animals. They bite people, to the point a visitor to their home needs stitches. They rejoice when she 'gets over' her fears that they might easily savage a visiting child and doesn't report their dangerous animals, who then go on to destroy a family pet they've spent their whole lives with. Loveable, apparently.
Then the dogs die, eventually, as all dogs do - but after stupid amounts of money are mentioned on vet bills, perhaps to impress us?
Then they get another dog they can't control as a happy ending.
Do not recommend either writing style nor subject matter.
I had to read this book for work reasons, and it was a slog. It rambles, it has anecdotes within anecdotes, it never fails to fail to get to the point.
You could skip the first 60 pages and not miss a thing. Frankly you could skip a whole lot more. As a fellow dog owner I can still say the subject matter is of very little interest - this guy has dogs. Big deal?
Strangely he's proud of the fact that his dogs are dangerous dogs that he cannot handle. They fight with him in the street. They destroy and chase native animals. They bite people, to the point a visitor to their home needs stitches. They rejoice when she 'gets over' her fears that they might easily savage a visiting child and doesn't report their dangerous animals, who then go on to destroy a family pet they've spent their whole lives with. Loveable, apparently.
Then the dogs die, eventually, as all dogs do - but after stupid amounts of money are mentioned on vet bills, perhaps to impress us?
Then they get another dog they can't control as a happy ending.
Do not recommend either writing style nor subject matter.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Moderate: Cancer, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail