Review: Of kibble, love, and revolution. The "end of the world" day commemorative review
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 21, 2012
Here's the world of a dog, Boswell, an adorable Australian Terrier, as portrayed in his conversations with "his magical, mangled, brain-channeling, straight-man toy, Stuffy," the chew-toy.The far-ranging conversations involve Grossman, his owner and the "immortallizer" of these dialogs; squirrels, dead and very much alive; Lulu the Poodle, the vertically forbidden love of Boswell's; politics of the revolution and the under-squirrels; telephones; the Higher Poocher and Kibbilosity Prayer, among other thing. The dialogs are not only cute but also witty:Stuffy: "You can't bribe Grossman. He already has everything he needs."Boswell: "He doesn't have a dead squirrel, I say with absolute authority."Or,Stuffy: "Grossman agrees with me that you are being unreasonable. He's trying to teach you a tough lesson."Boswell: "This is worse than waterboarding! I say. I'm going to complain to the Geneva Convention."Stuffy: "What's the Geneva Convention have to do with this, Boswell? I heard about it all from Bruno, the dog next door. It's all the terriers who live in Geneva. It's in a place called Switzerland."Some of these read like haikus if formatted accordingly. Let's try it:"What happened to theBillion-human-brain-cloud-channel-force-for-good?I ask the toy, curious.""There's a squirrel in the garden that keeps laughing at me.His name is Mortimer.I'm sure I can bag him if I want to.""He didn't bring me my kibble, either!I say. What's going on around here?Everything is collapsing around me."What at first seems like a cuddly little book of funnies illustrated with cute drawings and punctuated by naptimes is, in my opinion, a modern take on Socratic dialogue.  However, I feel that there will be as many takes on what this novel is as there are readers. You can read as deep into this text as you like; there are plenty of layers to unwrap and satisfy many a mind. BTW, great formatting job - this is one of the better formatted Kindle books that I've seen in a while. Recommended.