Red Dog
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Red Dog
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Narrated by:
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David Field
About this listen
Red Dog is a West Australian, a lovable friendly red kelpie who found widespread fame as a result of his habit of travelling all over Western Australia, hitching rides over thousands of miles, settling in places for months at a time and adopting new families before heading off again to the next destination and another family – sometimes returning to say hello years later. While visiting Australia, Louis de Bernières heard the legend of Red Dog and decided to do some research on this extraordinary story. After travelling to Western Australia and meeting countless people who'd known and loved Red Dog, Louis decided to spread Red Dog's fame a little further. The result is an utterly charming tale of an amazing dog with places to go and people to see.
©2001 Louis de Bernières (P)2002 Australian Broadcasting Corporation2. I choose that rateing because the performance was great
I liked the themed music at the start and the end.
3. My chapter is 6 when nancy and john go on at date to the movies in there johns car
Like imagine if he took his bike that would be hard
I'll have to say it's a bit modified from the movie but I think is great 👍👍👍
Good job 💯 for making this book fabolous
🅢ⓞ 𝕘𝕠𝕠𝕕 (★ᴗ★)👍
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I love it
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such a great Ozzie story
love it
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one big thanks to David Field for narrowing this story with such a good Aussi interpretation and another big thanks to Louis de Bernières for writing this story
very racomand book especially if you have visit north WA, you will totally understand why this dog loved so much his land and his people
I love Red Dog
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Red Dog will always be important to me as the legend of the Pilbara, The legend of my home.
person from the Pilbara
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Red Dog
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The narrator is well-cast and reads with a nice rhythm. The music fits the themes of the story.
But that doesn't change how painfully saccharine this series of dog-centric pratfalls is, nor how badly the author writes. This book is laden with cliches of both characterisation and expression (the mean old caravan park caretaker has a 'moustache a bit like Hitler's' and yes, that's a direct quote).
I've been to the Pilbara, and despite the heat, the flies, the spinifex, the rocks, the snakes, and the overall awe-inspiring harshness of the place, it never made me feel as unwelcome in the world as this book's version of it did. The women are too dumb to live - one doesn't know what dog nipples are. The Aboriginals are mentioned maybe twice. Characters described as 'coming from everywhere' are in fact from Europe and New Zealand. That's understandable - Australia was like that in the 70s - but one shouldn't tell the reader how diverse one's fictional world is if it, in fact, is not. I hate how nostalgic this author is for good old days that never existed.
A few passages of landscape description rang true. But, like the rank dog farts the author lovingly details from beginning to end, this novel annoyed me at first and disgusted me throughout. If you're a young student studying this text, at least it's only 2 hours long. Everyone else should give it a miss.
Plotless, sexist and twee
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