|
| 
 enlarge | Author: David Wroblewski
Publisher: Ecco
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
Buy New: $13.65
You Save: $12.30 (47%)
New (39) Used (31) Collectible (34) from $12.95
Rating:  856 reviews
Sales Rank: 2335
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 576
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.5 x 2
ISBN: 0061374229
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780061374227
ASIN: 0061374229
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Lame Ending for an Otherwise Great read January 3, 2009
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was all set to give this book a 5 star rating, but the ending kept me from doing that. It just took away from an otherwise great read.
Too Bad January 3, 2009
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
(SPOILERS GALORE) The ending felt like a punch to the gut. To heck with the Hamlet business. I admit I wanted a happy ending, but expected at least a wonderful ending. What a waste after making us care so much about Edgar, his strange muteness, the dogs, the Sawtelle dog line, the whereabouts of the bottle of poison, and getting Claude found out. It was a magical book up till the end. But everything conveniently gets ruined. Everything (without the training, those pups in the wild will end up feral, not the "next dogs"). The ether business was cool and dreamlike, but then Edgar's mother gets held back in a ridiculous leg-lock??? What the? Ugh. It didn't feel heroically tragic, just kind of stupid. Edgar (and his dogs) seemed much smarter and more special than Claude was evil. So what a disappointment. And the author just HAD to ruin the Almondine relationship in a cruel way. I hate when authors are so miserable. It's easy to depict destruction and ruin, it's hard to create something wonderful. I was excited about being able to recommend this book; but having finished it, I can not. Very, very close to being a great book. Too bad.
 a book for book lovers January 3, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
How wonderful and rewarding to know that America can produce and sponsor SO MUCH MORE than Harlequin crap or the forever boring "mysteries". How deeply satisfying to be able to delve head first into a book and lose yourself, lingering on lines and words as if savoring a delicious piece of chocolate. I was given a gift card to a Barns and Nobles for Christmas and picked up this copy, intrigued by the jacket picture, (YES, the jacket IS important and the artists who do them don't get half the recognition they deserve!!!), being pulled in after I read a few lines sneaking further into the book and realizing: I need to take this home and savor it. And this I did and am reading it sparingly because it is one of those books that once I am finished reading it I will feel as if I lost a friend. So I coddle this friend gently as it gives me joy every day. I am not done yet reading but I am glad I found this gem. Being a writer myself I gain with this book and hope the author will find courage enough to give us more when he remembers how fine this was.
 Did not enjoy January 3, 2009
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I did not enjoy the writting style or the story. I found it very hard to get into. Just not my style of book.
 Stop reading at page 459 January 3, 2009
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
What a disappointing book. Enjoyed it throughly until near the end. I wrote a longer response as a comment to someone who summed it up well already. Why did I spend my Christmas Vacation reading this horrid book? Because I trusted Oprah, Stephen King and the other reviewers on the back of the book. What a let down. What a waste of money.
|
|
|
The Outpost Network | |
