Title: Mildly interesting, cartoonish rather than realistic
Product review: I don't have a lot of patience with slow starts. I got through page 84 of the book's 314 pages before deciding it just wasn't going to be worth my while. I understand it's intended to be funny, but I still expect life-like characters that I can recognize as real people in some sense. These characters just seemed too much like cartoon characters. And then the mythically-vicious 200-pound dog who can practically destroy a horse-trailer is introduced -- and he's instantly tamed by a cat who is reminiscent of the Siamese cats in the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp. That was the point where my credibility was stretched beyond its limits and I decided it was time to start a different book.
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