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Summary: Lad: The Only Dog
Review: Albert Payson Terhune considered himself a hack writer. I believe he was wrong. Although he was popular and wealthy during his lifetime, not a typical "starving artist", he managed to make the places and characters in his stories absolutely come alive. It is not an easy thing to enable millions of people to know a place or a character fully and even more difficult to make them beloved. Terhune wrote of "The Place" and "Lad" so that his readers felt they had visited the Pompton Lakes, NJ home and met the hero-dog. This book has been continuously in print since it arrived on bookshelves in 1918. By the time readers met Lad, he had been dead for more than a year. But he truly lives on in Terhune's writing. Although Terhune may have believed himself a hack, it takes an artist to breathe life into a story and make it real. This book should not be missed by anyone, especially children, who will learn much from the virtues of Lad and will gain a very special friend for a lifetime.
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Summary: Lad: The Only Dog
Review: Albert Payson Terhune considered himself a hack writer. I believe he was wrong. Although he was popular and wealthy during his lifetime, not a typical "starving artist", he managed to make the places and characters in his stories absolutely come alive. It is not an easy thing to enable millions of people to know a place or a character fully and even more difficult to make them beloved. Terhune wrote of "The Place" and "Lad" so that his readers felt they had visited the Pompton Lakes, NJ home and met the hero-dog. This book has been continuously in print since it arrived on bookshelves in 1918. By the time readers met Lad, he had been dead for more than a year. But he truly lives on in Terhune's writing. Although Terhune may have believed himself a hack, it takes an artist to breathe life into a story and make it real. This book should not be missed by anyone, especially children, who will learn much from the virtues of Lad and will gain a very special friend for a lifetime.
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Summary: A Great Dog Story
Review: Albert Payson Terhune was always quick to disparage the quality of his own writing. He considered himself a hack writer and his humility was deep and genuine. Mr. Terhune, however, grossly underestimated himself. As "Lad: A Dog" shows, his genius was in his ability to make his readers care deeply about his subjects. "The Place" becomes your home, and Lad your beloved hero. This book is not to be missed. It is thoroughly entertaining, and packed with selflessness and the purest of love. "The Place", by the way, is now "Terhune Memorial Park", and is a wonderful place to visit, with the dogs' graves still intact there.
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Summary: AN INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY BY A MOST WONDERFUL AUTHOR!
Review: I first came upon this book when I was about ten years old. Now an adult, I still read it on a regular basis, and am addicted to Terhune's adventurous and beautifully written stories about his heroic collie dogs. If you love dogs, trust me, you will adore this book! Lad, the main character in the novel has to face danger and foes in every chapter, and displays to his master and mistress his loyalty and devotion to them. Even someone who is not into dogs will give this masterpiece a rightful place on their bookshelf. Five stars is not a high enough rating! Also recommended are two out-of-print books about Lad: Lad Of Sunnybank and The Further Adventures Of Lad. Albert Payson Terhune is one author I would like to meet and tell him that his works are excellent and he is probably my favorite author.
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Summary: A book to read again and again!
Review: I first read Lad: A dog, when I was 9 years old. The collie takes a place in the heart of the reader and never leaves. I am now 50 years old and have read the book 10 times or more. I have shared Lad with my friends and my children. I believe this book instills something in the reader that today's literature does not. I highly reccommend it for young and old.
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Summary: 11 and 44
Review: I first read Lad: A dog, when I was eleven. The story touched me and over the years I often thought of Lad and his WWI era world. It was not until tonight (Oct 27 04)at the age of forty-four that I reread the story of Lad and once again found myself happy and sad as I turned the pages.
A wonderful book.
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Summary: Lad, a Thoroughbred in Body and Soul...
Review: I first read this book many, many years ago and back then I had no idea Terhune considered himself a hack. All I knew was that the stories made me cry, made me laugh, made me love Collies all the more.(as if I didn't love them too much already. I grew up with a house full of them!) Well, I'm old now, a writer myself, something of a critic, and, yes, the man was no Hemmingway. Know what? He didn't need to be. The stories have an innate charm and personal style that make me wish I could have met him (Papa Earnest, on the other hand, does not strike me as a fun guy).
Regardless of age, if you love Collies, and you also love an old fashioned ripping good yarn, get this book.
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Summary: Great Book for Kids of All Ages
Review: I generally hate clichés like "kids of all ages," but it just really suits this book. I first discovered Albert Payson Terhune and Lad in seventh grade, much to the chagrin of our school librarian. She had to eventually temporarily ban me from checking the book out any further so that other kids could read it. In those days I did not realize I was reading about a long dead author and the most famous of his dogs, nor did I realize that the stories actually were taking place in the early part of the 20th century. None of that mattered to me then (or now for the matter). I was drawn into the world of Lad and Terhune every time I opened those pages. Eventually, I managed to read most of his works and came to truly admire Terhune's writing, even though I have since read that he considered himself to be a hack. It's now many years later, and there is still magic in these books for me. I have several of the books waiting for the day my very young daughters (a two year old and a four year old) are ready to read books that don't have pictures on every page. In fact, I've got a backlog of books I want to share with them, but I'm willing to bet we start with Lad. If your children have any interest in animals in general or dogs in particular, you must get this book, and all of Terhune's other works if you can find them, for your children. Sure, the language may be a lttile strange at times, but your child will still love this book all the same.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: Tense, touching, wonderfully told. Lad is a dog I want!! Read it, you'll love it! Me and my mom cried at some points it was so good! Please buy this good book! It not trash or a waste of money! Its a keeper!! Its worth more than it costs its so good!! Please, please buy it. You wont be disappointed. Too bad you cant rate it higher. If you could rate from 0-100, I'd rate it 100\100!! Again please buy it!!
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Summary: The best dog book -- Those who have read it understand.
Review: The best dog book ever written. A simple but striking story of fidelity between a man and his dog. Originally a tribute to Lad and the many other dogs who shared Terhune's estate, it is now a tribute to the ethical reality of Lad's life. You can still visit a portion of the Terhune estate in Wayne, New Jersey. The Place (house)is gone, but the grounds remain. You will see Lad's grave marker, along with the grave markers of many other dogs made famous in Terhune's books. You can visit the shore of the lake and stroll the grounds. You can feel Lad's eerie presence as he lives over and over again the stories from the pages of Terhune's books. Or perhaps he is still there. Look -- is that ...
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