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Dogsbody novel6/8/2023 The stories launch with the improbable and just get zanier from there. What you wouldn't give to be in that pub by the end of this book. Hall never falters in capturing the cadences and deadpan humor of his narrator, making Doctor Dogsbody's voice one you long to hear in your ear not just read on the page. There's such witty storytelling and indelible characters in these short stories - it reads like a nautically-themed David Sedaris. Then I couldn't put it down.ĭoctor Dogbody's Leg was the kind of book that makes you read passages out loud to your long-suffering spouse, haplessly trying to play a war game on his Wii, just so you have someone to laugh with. But someone in my neighborhood put it out in a box of other books and the front cover was well-designed enough (I judge by covers, so sue me) to halt me in my speed-walk to the subway, so I picked it up. Not a real high-seas-lark reader typically. This is not the type of book I would normally look for or respond to if I simply saw its blurb on a back cover or website. Can I please call this "a ripping yarn"? Pleeease? I've wanted to use that term ever since reading pirate stories as a kid and am delighted to find a book that actually merits it.
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