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When Dachshunds Ruled The Serengeti (2013)

by Michael Murphy(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1623805821 (ISBN13: 9781623805821)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

review 1: I don't always write reviews but when something bothers me I just can't keep it inside of me.I liked the idea of the story, and the story line. But, what bothered me the most is the spanish part. There where a lot of errors, soooo many errors that anyone can tell that google translate was used. I hope that if there are any other editions this mistakes would be re-written because for a person that is fluent in that language is like an insult. There, I said it. I hope M. Murphy doesn't take this badly.
review 2: I gave this 3 stars, but it's really somewhere between 2.75 and 3 stars, in my opinion. It is a fair effort at telling the story of two young men from entirely different worlds who meet, fall in love, and manage to stay that way against fairly overwhelmin... moreg odds, but it suffered from the failure to connect with me on an emotional level. The set-up is a classic opposites attract framework: Phillip is white, old money, and a Northeasterner; Jose is the Latino son of a migrant farmworking family who works incredibly hard to fit into this new world in which he finds himself. They meet on the first day of college at Brown, where they are roommates. Jose and Phillip immediately become friends, and soon thereafter, fall for each other. The set-up had potential, unfortunately, there were some pretty significant difficulties with the story. First, Jose didn't always ring true as a Latino character. The use of epithets in reference to himself struck me as peculiar -- I don't know how many Latinos would actually describe themselves in the terms that the author used, and I certainly don't know how many would do so in front of non-Latinos. Second, so much of the beginning was set up as a compare/contrast between life as a migrant farmworker and life in an Ivy League university that it prevented me from connecting with the characters themselves. Third, the author didn't seem to grasp the voice, attitude, or tenor of being eighteen, especially the extreme intensity of the feelings that come with that age. Given how quickly and deeply these two fell for each other, I should have felt it in my gut, and I didn't. Fourth, it was shocking that Phillip's parents were so open-minded about the fact that their 18/19-year old son was behaving as if he was married to Jose, when in reality, they probably would have encouraged him to be mindful of the possibility that a college relationship might come to an end. These problems notwithstanding, the narrative improved toward the middle, once the author settled into the story, but by that point, my emotions were not engaged, and were unlikely to become engaged. Therefore, on balance, once you get into it, it's an okay story, and I wouldn't say it's not recommended. I just can't explicitly encourage everyone to go out and buy it. less

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