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Huck: The Remarkable True Story Of How One Lost Puppy Taught A Family - And A Whole Town - About Hope And Happy Endings (2010)

by Janet Elder(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0767931343 (ISBN13: 9780767931342)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Broadway Books

review 1: In essence, this book is about a family from NYC who get a dog, said dog runs away, and then they find it. However, it took 6 CD (over 7 hours of listening to the story) to tell a "tail" that would have taken me 15 minutes to recount to my friends. However, having said that, this is a sweet story, and the writing is fantastic. The author does a great job of character development and painting a vivid picture. It would be the kind of story that I would pass to my grandmother to read. Perhaps, coming from a small rural town, I am cynical of city folks. Here, the authors couldn't believe that people in a small town would help them find their dog. This was harped on continuously, and I found tiring - as this is the way of life in towns. We are nice and helpful! I might recommen... mored reading this book over listening to it, so that you could flip through the pages of description when it starts to get boring. However, still a nice story for any pet owner, or especially those whose pets have run away.
review 2: I found this book hard to get through. I'm a huge dog lover, owning two myself, but found the book lacking in intrigue most of the time. Perhaps it is Elder's style of writing, but I found it hard to connect with the people in the book. It started out alright but as the book progressed, I felt detached. It seemed more like an idealized or romanticized family experiencing this event than a normal one. less

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