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A review by leighmowzer
A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog by Dean Koontz
1.0
I'm not going to finish this but I wanted to review it anyway. Dean Koontz is a wizard with words. I wish he would step away from the horror genre from time to time, oh wait, this is him doing that.
It reads like a journal of someone who's entire life revolves around their pet... before you judge me because that sounds kind of amazing to me too... it is entirely boring. I'm sorry but there it is. Page after page of peeing on the carpet stories (it wasn't her fault, obvi), pooing in the neighbors yard, having meaningful eye contact... dog to human... I couldn't. It sounds magical to have that kind of connection with your pup but reads like some kind of play by play mommy blog. Wittle puppy pooped on the grass again!?! Hooray!!! Not that I don't say that to my own furry darlings (they need the encouragement)...but I have no delusions of that nonsense being good book material. It just isn't.
Sorry Dean! Maybe you should have stayed in horror-ville.
It reads like a journal of someone who's entire life revolves around their pet... before you judge me because that sounds kind of amazing to me too... it is entirely boring. I'm sorry but there it is. Page after page of peeing on the carpet stories (it wasn't her fault, obvi), pooing in the neighbors yard, having meaningful eye contact... dog to human... I couldn't. It sounds magical to have that kind of connection with your pup but reads like some kind of play by play mommy blog. Wittle puppy pooped on the grass again!?! Hooray!!! Not that I don't say that to my own furry darlings (they need the encouragement)...but I have no delusions of that nonsense being good book material. It just isn't.
Sorry Dean! Maybe you should have stayed in horror-ville.