Helpful Score: 6
All right...kind of like sitting next to a mildly drunk old man on a bus: interesting, sort of sympathetic, but also sort of creepy.
Helpful Score: 2
This book was unlike any other I've read. It is a memoir written by a man who has been an alcoholic most of his life. He quits and relapses many, many times, and it is a bit painful to read. The main subject of the book is his relationship with his dog, Martin. It's a story of the love between human and dog, and in this case it's about the redeeming nature of the relationship. The relationship between the author and his dog probably saved the man's life. The story is rather sad - the author gains some enlightenment along the way, but he's by nature a very simple man and rather lonely.
Helpful Score: 2
Moving memoir of an unemplyed alcoholic in Scotland that ends up with a dog that changes his life. This is not sappy, and there are no miracles - just the nitty-gritty of getting through life and how the dog, Martin, helped him to do so.
