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| Original Title: | The Dog Stars |
| ISBN: | 0307959945 (ISBN13: 9780307959942) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Colorado(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee for Best Novel (2013), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee (2012), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2012), Prix Une autre Terre (2014) |
Peter Heller
Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.92 | 50767 Users | 6883 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Dog Stars |
| Author | : | Peter Heller |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | August 7th 2012 by Knopf |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Science Fiction. Dystopia |
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Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley.But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for.
Rating Appertaining To Books The Dog Stars
Ratings: 3.92 From 50767 Users | 6883 ReviewsPiece Appertaining To Books The Dog Stars
Global pandemic, lots of people dead, survivors surviving and unsuccessful survivors acting badly.Got it.Im going to be brutally honest and maybe a little mean and say that I dont know why this is popular and why it has received stellar reviews. It was nominated for several awards, and I just dont see it. The post-apocalyptic genre is swelled to bursting and yet writers and publishers keep shelling out offerings like a churro vendor on a sidewalk. Youve got to have something really special toI'm having trouble thinking of how to talk about this book without talking about the ending, which I think is a good thing, so I'll do my best to be spoiler-free while still addressing my main points about it. First, Hig and his dog are egregious self-inserts of the author and his dog, but somehow, this is one of the least obnoxious examples I've ever seen. Hig is both deeply flawed and deeply damaged by the events of nine years prior. In case you have any question that this may be the case,
hey, amazon! you watchin' all these reviews now?? making sure they are all sunshiny five-star gushings that won't hurt the authors' feelings and cost you a sale?? making sure i don't drop any naughty words?well, i can't five-star this book, so i guess i am writing this for nothing, and it might get deleted in the "every book is a winner" mentality of your book-worldview.but i am gonna write it anyway, in the hopes that goodreads.com can still be the place it should be - where people can have
5 StarsI had originally only scored this post-apocalyptic read at 4 stars bought after having finished it two days ago, my fond recollections have changed my mind. This is a wonderful story and tale about a post-apocalyptic time when the world has been decimated due to an out of control flu and blood disease. Sure this has been done many times before, and it is a favorite genre of mine, but in this book The Dog Stars by Peter Heller, we are treated to a very unique point of view. You see Big Hig
"I knew Bangley well enough that he'd had enough killing in one night not to fuck with my dog". But......why kill anyone is what I kept thinking? Even in a post apocalyptic world? ......Yes, I had the conversation with Paul - he tried to explain to me why, but I still feel angry.I HAVE A DIFFERENT MIND SET than automatically killing off people. Lots of profanity...Lots of stream-of-thoughts...A man and his dog....Dog dies. Nut gun man. Airplane, fishing, cooking, a love story. Colorado.I have a
One star for this, only because I couldn't finish it. The writing style of this book drove me bat-shit crazy. In addition to no quotation marks AT ALL, here are a few examples of sentence composition."For the dog he said. Angry. Because I didn't do my job. To him.""But.""The way the landscape falls into place around the drainages, the capillaries and arteries of falling water: mountain slopes bunched and wrinkled, wringing themselves into furrows or couloir and creek, draw and chasm, the low
Reluctant Rating: 3.5* of fiveThe Publisher Says: A riveting, powerful novel about a pilot living in a world filled with lossand what he is willing to risk to rediscover, against all odds, connection, love, and grace.Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the
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