Thursday, January 19, 2006

Books

I may pick up Conspiracy of fools for my next read the subject interests me but I usualy get bored with too much detail of financial trickery. I read a couple of books some time ago about the insider trading scandal that took over wall street and found them fairly interesting but hard to get through. I recently read Ship of Gold which Steve favorably mentioned and Al commented he enjoyed it, after purchasing Shadow Divers Amozon also recomended it. I found it to be a great read and would reccomend it to anyone as well. Steve the book you mentioned about the guy moving to New York to raise dogs seems borring to me also but I heard that guy interviewed on the radio and his character and persona on air was enough to spark some interest. He expressed a keen interest in his dogs but seemed to be well grounded in the reality of proper training. He also had some kind of ability to see things from a dogs point of view and it wasn't as warm as fuzzy as most people think, statements like "give me a week and a case of liver treats with your dog and he will forget you ever existed" were shocking to a host who previously stated she didn't think she could live without her best freind and pet a golden retriever.

1 comment:

Steve said...

He definitely does not spend time attributing human emotions and things like that to dogs, even in this book. Part of the book concerns his giving up one of the dogs, because as the owner he was failing the dog. Still, he doesn't seem to harbor any Homeward Bound kind of illusions when it comes to dogs' attachment to their owners. I have seen other books by him that are strictly about training and working with dogs. He does seem to be an expert, or at least one who get published.