This book is slippery. It's so many things, and it's exceedingly difficult to rate. I won't be surprised if my rating, and opinion, increases with time. It took me a while to get into this book. It's so highly stylized it reads a bit like poetry mixed with steam of consciousness. (Which sounds fai...
I almost stopped reading this book near the beginning--the combination of the bleak situation and fragmented language made me think I couldn't finish it. Over time, the book grew into something more beautiful, and I'm glad I made it to the end.
This was a solid above average read. As a (former) semi-pilot (not having flown in over a year and only having achieved private pilot license means that I am very much a novice in the world of aviation), I enjoyed all of the plane details, really made me think about taking an instructor along and g...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-dog-stars.htmlThe Dog Stars is the story of a post-apocalyptic world. Nine years have passed since a disease killed most of the population of the world and most of the natural life. A few survivors remain. Some are ...
There were parts of this dystopian novel that I enjoyed, parts I struggled with, and a few that didn't belong. The main character is good, or discovers goodness within himself. His stream-of-consciousness narrative is jarring at times. Comparable in theme and direction to The Death of Grass, which I...
First of all, this is another post-apocalyptic vision of the world. But, in the Dog Stars, the writing itself sets this book apart: the language is robust and experimental, with short machine gun like bursts and haiku-like prose. It is also dream-like and often beautiful. It is about loss and surv...
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