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Indlæser... Top Dog (udgave 1998)af Jerry Jay Carroll (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. 5718. Top Dog, by Jerry Jay Carroll (read 13 Nov 2020) Somehow this book got into my house and though I had never heard of the author of the book I decided to read it. When I found it told of a man who had turned into a big dog, I thought of The Dog Days of Arthur Cane, a book I read 4 June 2006 and had good memory of I so I decided to keep reading--I usually finish a book once I start it. But the book turned into a fantasy, with the dog being in an unidentified place with weird names of people like "Two Legs" and characters like Mogwerd, apparently a kind of person, though the book was vague in regard to what they were. The dog looks like a dog and is the narrator of the book. As a dog he cannot be understood by humans but he usually is able to make them understand what he wants to do. He remembers and thinks about food he had, when he was a big wheel dealing with the stock market and corporate takeovers in New York, with a wife who did not love him but loved his great wealth. As a dog he comes to feel he should be on the side of good and oppose evil--as a man he only wanted to make money regardless of the right or wrong of what he did. The book was published in 1996 or 1998 but there are a few references to Donald Trump, who moved in the circles the narrator did before he became a dog. After about 9 months he gets back to being a man but has no interest in being the kind of guy he was before. I found the long account of the dog being in the fantasy world really not engaging and would never read anything more by Jerry Jay Carroll. Alice in Wonderland meets Wall Street in Jerry Jay Carroll's brilliant and witty novel. A high-powered corporate raider gets a real lesson in looking out for No. 1 when he wakes from a nap to find he has been transformed into a huge dog. Gone are the wheeling-and-dealing, the ultra-luxury lifestyle, and the high-maintenance wife. In their place are fairy-tale forests, magical creatures, and hideous monsters straight out of a nightmare. It's a world where you are either good or evil. William G. Ingersol decides market research and due diligence are needed before he decides which side to pick. Just because he has four paws and fleas now doesn't mean he's an idiot. And moral decisions were never a great strength for him in the first place. "A captivating romp." -- Entertainment Weekly. Weird science fiction novel with a terrific premise -- Wall Street exec wakes up to discover that he has turned into a really big dog -- that somehow doesn't get satisfactorily carried out. Both Wall-Streetishness and doginess are excellently and very amusingly presented. But the novel turns into a fantasyland contest between Good and Evil, and our dog has to choose sides. At that point I sort of lost interest; perhaps that's not a situation that a former Wall Streeter can really grasp. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Alice in Wonderland meets Wall Street in Jerry Jay Carroll's brilliant and witty debut novel. A high-powered executive gets a real lesson in looking out for #1 when he wakes up as a dog.Gone are the stock reports, limos and cocktail parties. In their place are fairy-tale forests, magical creatures, and hideous monsters.It's a world where you're either good or evil. Our hero decides to explore both options before choosing... ? Carroll is a powerful new voice'acclaimed by heavyweights such as Richard North Patterson, Martin Cruz Smith, and Entertainment Weekly ? ?A stylish, funny combination of parable and moral tale...Imaginative, seductively written, and a pleasure to read.' ?Richard North Patterson ? ?ACarroll's? tight, colorful prose proves zesty and absorbing. His plot has touches of that Tolkienesque irresistibility, that thing that keeps you up past bedtime turning pages.'?San Francisco Chronicle ? His next novel, Security Concerns, will be an Ace trade paperback (7/98) No library descriptions found. |
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