early portions of the audiobook are poorly edited, with clearly separate recordings inserted (background levels, voice tone, etc). In the intro and first chapters there are sections where it almost sounds like a conversation with edits occurring on a nearly sentence-by-sentence basis. This was di...
A wonderful book! Strongly recommended, not only for dog-lovers or those interested in the effects of war on the human psyche, but everyone. A classic "boy and his dog" story, except that in this case the "boy" is a man: US Army Captain Luis Montalvan, a wounded warrior struggling to find the key...
I thought this was a very well done book on a very difficult and touchy topic. It was truthful, it was honest, it was pictorially perfect, from my pov. I thought the photographer, Dan Dion, did an exceptional job of capturing the emotional connection between the dog and its owner as well as using...
Ali, my former translator from Al-Waleed, had arrived in the United States from Jordan and settled in New Jersey. He was having difficulty finding work, his two-room apartment was too small for his family, and he was in debt to the U.S. government for the cost of his flight, but at least he was s...