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The Word of Dog

What Our Canine Companions Can Teach Us About Living a Good Life

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The Word of Dog

By: Mark Rowlands
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
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A heartwarming philosophical meditation on how to live a fulfilling life—inspired by the inherent happiness of dogs.

If you have spent any part of your life with a dog, you may have found certain questions popping, unbidden, into your mind: Is my dog living a fulfilled life? Is my dog a good dog? Does my dog love me? Addressing these questions compels you to confront not just your dog's life but yours as well—to think about what fulfillment, and meaning, in life really is.

In The Word of Dog, philosopher Mark Rowlands explores these questions and suggests that in dogs we can see hints—faint, shrouded, but discernible—of what a better way of living might look like. Perhaps none of us can be happy in the way a dog can, but The Word of Dog shows us we could do a lot better than we're doing simply by listening to the unspoken wisdom our dogs reveal to us every day of their happy, uncomplicated lives.

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Loved everything. Much of it I had already intuited just by sharing my life with many dog companions, but it was meaningful to see it proved by science and /or reasoning.

Love your dog and your life will have meaning

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The narrator did more than justice to this book and he brought me to tears in the end

Everything

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A contrived review of philosophy concepts using the author's dog to explain how these work.

Tedious and boring

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Gave up halfway through. I tried to persevere thinking at first the repetition was a stylistic choice but it looked more and more like lazy editing and thin concepts.

The endless repetition of simple ideas.

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