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Jun 11, 2017
The Whistler Public Library and Armchair Books book club read "Fifteen Dogs" in January 2017. A bold choice for the first book of the year! This novel divided us into two camps: those that found this book too brutal (this camp included many animal lovers), and those that thought the brutality was necessary to the plot, and to the larger social experiment at work. For a book of only 200 pages or so, it certainly generated an active discussion! We enjoyed discussing: - The role of gender in this story, among the dog characters, the human characters, and between the species - The poetry interspersed through this novel, spoken by the poet dog, Prince. As always, poetry continues to divide and confound us... - Whether we "recognized" the behaviour of the dogs in our lives - some thought Alexis' dogs were 100% human from page one