The Art of Racing in the Rain

Novemberrocks · July 2010

I just finished this book this morning on my commute and was embarrassingly crying on the train. Lovely. Has anyone else read it? Curious about what you thought.

CaliopeSpidrman · July 2010

I equally embarrassed myself by reading it while on the train and crying amongst my fellow commuters. I really liked the book because it evoked so many different emotions from me.

Novemberrocks · July 2010

I feel the same way. I've read a few reviews that have said the some parts of the book were not too believable (custody battle), and the ending perhaps too trite, but I felt pretty attached to the characters. I totally get that Enzo was a very biased narrator, but that was okay by me.

CaliopeSpidrman · July 2010

Novemberrocks:
I totally get that Enzo was a very biased narrator, but that was okay by me.

Absolutely! Yes, the custody stuff may have been a stretch but you're reading a book told by a dog....you're already stretching your imagination a bit. Eve's parents....oh how I loathed them. I'd get off the train everyday wanting to punch somebody because I was so mad at these fictional characters. Denny was a much MUCH better person than I would have been. I would have pooped on their doormat.

Novemberrocks · July 2010

Yes, I wouldn't have been nearly as nice to them as he was. They were awful, awful people. I called my sister (who had loaned me the book) at one particularly hateful point and was like, "please tell me these people get theirs in the end because I can't handle it otherwise." He had tons of restraint - way more than they deserved.

CaliopeSpidrman · July 2010

The lasting effect I've had from reading the book was that I try to talk to Maggie a lot more. I talked to her before, but it was more typical human to dog talk like. Now I talk to her more like she understands everything. Just in case.

Novemberrocks · July 2010

CaliopeSpidrman:
The lasting effect I've had from reading the book was that I try to talk to Maggie a lot more. I talked to her before, but it was more typical human to dog talk like. Now I talk to her more like she understands everything. Just in case.

Absolutely - now I want to borrow Stephen Hawking's voice synthesizer for Mabel (though I'm pretty sure she's still a bunch of lives away from human).

CaliopeSpidrman · July 2010

Mr. Spiderman has said a number of times how he wished Maggie could talk. I have no doubt this commercial portrays exactly what it would be like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UHKB6nQrzM

Novemberrocks · July 2010

OMG, so funny. I totally agree.

lmydogally · July 2010

Thanks for this. I need another book for my trip next week so I will get this one. I made the mistake of reading Good Grief on the plane a few weeks ago and looked like an ass crying from page 1. Really awesome book though if you haven't read it.

Novemberrocks · July 2010

Dawg, I read Good Grief a few years ago, and really liked it. There's a scene in that book where I was hysterically laughing and crying at the same time. It's when she shows up to work in her pajamas, and is eating hot dog buns, (I may be remembering the details wrong). I just lost it at that part.

BermudaBride07 · July 2010

I loved this book with all my heart. I would actually read it again if I still had it in my possession.

lmydogally · July 2010

Yes November, that was a great scene. Her emotions where so real, I spent most of the book crying/laughing. But I had no idea it would start out sad, so here I was on the first leg of a flight trying to hold back tears, blowing my nose wearing my Company logo shirt looking like a freak. But I loved that book start to finish.

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