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The author's experiences from his years of living in the bush and the hunting dog that he had from the time it was a puppy.
This kept showing up as a Goodreads recommendation. I was unable to find it anywhere here in the States so when I had opportunity to find it during a layover in Johannesburg, I decided to buy it. I'd had the idea it was fiction, but in reading the preface discovered it was book form of stories he'd told numerous times from his experiences - the ol' "you need to put these t ...more
This kept showing up as a Goodreads recommendation. I was unable to find it anywhere here in the States so when I had opportunity to find it during a layover in Johannesburg, I decided to buy it. I'd had the idea it was fiction, but in reading the preface discovered it was book form of stories he'd told numerous times from his experiences - the ol' "you need to put these t ...more
What do you want me to write? All I want to write are the words doggie, woofie, woofles etc. Unfortunately it sadly shows that we live in a world where whoever made it, you get angry because of the rules of nature. Living things hunting and eating each other. And you can guess my feelings at the end, but I can’t write the word because a bit of the book will be spoiled.
I think this story should have been left as FitzPatrick first created it: a series of bedtime short stories for his children. It's strength lies in the descriptive detail of each episode, and not in its combined effect as a novel. The ending is abrupt and unsatisfactory, demonstrating that the author possessed neither the skill nor the inclination to weave the truth into a satisfying work of fiction, allowing it to totter somewhere between the two. What a pity, as a hero with the potential for g
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Oct 08, 2014
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Although I felt like that the novel read like a collection of short stories and not as a flowing plot, I did enjoy the journey of Jock and his owner. Jock has so much spirit in his bones, his countless hunting trips makes this novel adventurous.
Dec 07, 2013
Eyre
marked it as to-read
Dec 10, 2013
Kate
marked it as to-read
