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Summary: If you can weather the slow start, it is a worthwhile read!
Review: I almost put this book down after the first twenty pages. I was falling asleep! However, I love animals and loathe animal experimentation, so I perservered... About halfway through the book, it finally became the absorbing work that I would expect from Richard Adams. The descriptions of animal research are horrifying; all the more so because many (if not all) of these experiments actually happen. If you have the patience to get through the slow start, you will find this an interesting, often heartbreaking work.
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Summary: Richard Adams is a natural writer/story teller.
Review: This is only my second Richard Adams book I've read - Watership Down was the first. I found great depth in his writing and enjoyed the multilayed style of his writing. The story kept me on the edge of dispair and hope all the way through it. When I was 35 pages to the end, I didn't know whether I could continue it, it was so emotional. I did read it to the end and the richness of the book continued right to the end. Richard Adams is a natural writer/story teller.
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Summary: Now this is a book
Review: Probably the best book of Adams (well, The Iron Wolf is not so bad, too). I have read it for my bachelor exam in English literature and just loved it - altough you would think that it is a worthless Thriller if you only read the title. I will study veterinary medecine, so this book was interesting to me - hope that I'll never become a Boycott or Powell.
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Summary: Don't buy this expecting Watership Down
Review: Surprisingly unreadable given the quality of Watership Down. Adams appears to experiment in this book with being an active participant in the story, but succeeds in only making me wonder at the end of the book why I stuck with it. Interesting viewpoint on animal research, but fully misses the point in providing a good read.
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Summary: A wonderful book!
Review: This is my favorite book by Adams, and possibly my favorite overall. Even though I'm not (or wasn't) too fond of dogs, I was still gripped by this book. For once I actually read a book a chapter or two a day to make it last. The plot takes plenty of turns, and if it weren't for the number of pages left, I was almost sure the book was nearly over at places... but then Adams would work out a great twist to make the story a little more optimistic. You can't really be sure how the story will end until the last few pages. In conclusion... buy it! Read it! You will definately enjoy it!
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Summary: Plague what?
Review: Not surprising... only three reviews. After all, who goes to the book store and picks up a book named "Plague Dogs?" Certainly not a crowd drawer of a name. Not surprisingly, then, until I ran into it at the far corner of the book store, I had never heard of it... But since then, rest asured, no one who has run into me has NOT heard of it. Why should you read it?... Because it painfully shows us (humans) our ugly face? Because it clearly and beautifully tells us of our duties as "top-species" on the planet. Because it is packed with adventure, depth, emotion, knowledge, and tenderness? Beacause it will grip you from the first chapter (and if it doesn't, then don't bother with the rest) and it will swallow you whole, and it will spit you in the end, sobbing and smiling, and with a new, fresh (and more responsible) outlook on the universe about you?...Nope... read it because it is one of the best stories ever told (one of the best I ever heard,! anyway).
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Summary: allllmost there...
Review: this book, although very interesting and lots of what i love about this author (the animals), pails in comparison to Adams' other books. The long drawn out explainations made me soon lose interest and i had to fight just to make it to the end. at times, however it was exactly what i expected from the author or Watership Down
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Summary: This thing disgraces the tradition of Watership Down!
Review: With all due respect to the author, THIS BOOK IS TERRIBLE!!!!! It was so boring I forgot what was happening by page 8. I gave up and quit reading it by page 11. If you're a fan of Watership Down, avoid this book at all costs!
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Summary: beautifully written
Review: The story is beautifully written; amazing and powerful. It is tragic to know that people can be so cruel and irrational. You can easily forget that Snitter and Rowf are dogs, and the tod a fox. There is an underlying message, and if you miss that, you miss the book. I love this book!
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Summary: .....Wow....
Review: That is what I said when I finished the book. It is a little long and takes a while to read, but it's worth it. It talks about animal experimentation and it's in the animal's point of view. I think I'm going to name my next dogs Snitter and Rowf! The tod says I have to!
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