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Summary: Fantastic book, stupid ending.
Review: This luminous, riveting and maddening book had me in thrall until the last fifty pages when it degenerates into a Rambo style mess. Oh, but when it's good it's terrific, I'm anxious to read this author's other books.
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Summary: A GREAT BOOK. PLAIN AND SIMPLE
Review: THIS STORY IS EXCELLENT. Ingenius, Unique, Beautiful, Morbid, Sad, Uplifting, Violent, Depraved, even humorous at times. I hate when people say "For a first time novelist this was good". That is BS, every writer on the planet would PRAY to leave 1/2 the mark that this novel has. There is simply nothing else like it I have read.
If you want to know my best way to describe it, it would be this:
1/4 Cormac Macarthy "Child of God" + 1/4 David Bottoms "Easter Weekend" + 1/4 Tim Willocks "Bloodstained Kings" + 1/4 Flannery O'Connor "A Good Man is Hard to Find".
"Dogs of God" is a masterpiece plain and simple
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Summary: You like books, don`t you? Well then, read this.
Review: While literary types are skulking around sucking back lattes and debating the death of the novel, Pinckney Benedict has arisen from the rural backroads of West Virginia to write `The Dogs of God`, the most impressive first American novel since Thomas Pynchon released `V` almost a half century ago. Benedict`s story revolves around Goodie, an itinerant bare knuckles fist fighter looking for one last payday before his hands give out. He`s on a collision course with Tannhauser, the local drug lord, a 12-fingered maniac who makes Conrad`s Kurtz look like a boyscout leader. Benedict has a master`s feel around narrative. His ability to pull a half dozen disparate threads and storylines into a magnificent and compelling read is fantastic. The atmosphere of menace and imminent violence is unrelenting, even though it takes the better part of the book to be realized. In the end, the best thing you can say about `The Dogs of God` is that it does what all good books should - shows you another time and place and makes you think (and maybe even wish) you were there
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