Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780345494023
Edition: Reprint
ISBN: 0345494024
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: November 28, 2006
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Studio: Ballantine Books
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This is a difficult read- with thick North English dialect, rambling descriptions of the Lakeland scenery and the incomprehensible viewpoint of the mad Snitter. However, I am only half-way through "The Plague Dogs" and finding it very enjoyable. The characterisation of Rowf, Snitter and the tod (fox) is wonderful. One thing that caught my eye with this book was that the plot is an imaginative variation on the "jail break" theme and that the inhumane treatment of the dogs has uncomfortable paralells ...
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No doubt the people who are looking at this have already read watership down or have an interest in it. So, I'll be blunt as the best place to start is a comparison. It is not as good as Watership Down, simply put. Saying that, Watership down was a masterpiece and very few books ever written compare.
The reason for this is very simple, the plot. It consists of our intrepid Dogs escaping from the animal experimentation facility and wandering round, basically trying to survive by 1.- getting food, ...
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Rowf - a Labrador highly cynical about the human race - and Snitter – a black and white Jack Russell sold to Animal Research and subjected to brain surgery which dampens his ability to differentiate between subjective experience and objective reality - both escape the lonesome confines of the experimental laboratory they are held in and break out in the countryside of the Lake District region. Roaming the fells, they both fluctuate between the desires to have a master and to go feral, that is to ...
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This book is extraordinarily well written. It is the only book to make me cry whilst reading it, and the issues it raises are both though provoking and significant to the present day. Before people condem the issues as fabricated fiction, I would like to point out that in my copy of the book,at least, the author states that every experiment described in the book has been performed in real life. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone, and it takes a little while to get into, so don't give up on ...
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This, Richard Adams' third book after 'Watership Down' and 'Shardik', is probably his best. The book dismisses 'Watership Down''s relative sentimentality for more brutal subject matter but still manages to champion animals over humans for a happy ending. It's also a very philosophical work, as the story goes beyond the escape of the principal characters of Rowf and Snitter into the human and political world to show its rank underbelly. Brilliant.
