The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel | David Wroblewski | Beautiful Writing, Plot Twists, and...

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel | David Wroblewski | VERY SLOW...

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The Story of Edgar...

	The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel David Wroblewski Ecco, 2008 - 576 pages average customer review:based on 807 reviews view larger image
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Beautiful Writing, Plot Twists, and Dogs - Love it!

The story is compelling, moving, and written so beautifully, I reread passages just so I could enjoy them again. "Essay (one of Edgar's dogs) circled and circled, solving again the everlasting riddle of lying down to sleep. She came to rest with her back to him, muzzle fitted high on her foreleg. Overhead the aurora flew, sheets of wild neon." Wroblewski captures images such as this with amazing descriptive language.

It is of special interest to people who train dogs, since the Sawtelle dogs' intelligence and training contribute to the plot twists and turns. Wroblewski eloquently explores the meaning of training in a passage where Edgar's mother reflects on her dog training, "That was what people didn't understand. Unless they had worked long and hard at it, most people thought training meant forcing their will on a dog. Or that training required some magical gift. Both ideas were wrong. Real training meant watching, listening, diverting a dog's exuberance, not suppressing it. You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow."

This novel is one of the best I've ever read. Perhaps it's my love for the way the language formed images in my mind. Perhaps it's the plot surprises thrown out when I least expected it. Perhaps it's my love for dogs.

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VERY SLOW...

Haven't finished the book yet and don't usually write reviews before I do. Just wanted to mention that the book is basically good, BUT... way too wordy. It does not seem very well developed. There is alot of good writing here, but way too much description about irrevalent subjects, objects, people, etc. It's one of those books I know I have to finish, but don't relish picking up again (Im' procrastinating now). I want to finish it though, because I don't want to start something else until I do....

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