Robert Weintraub
Autor de No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII
Sobre El Autor
Robert Weintraub has written about sports for The New York Times, Slate, Play, ESPN.com, The Guardian, Dead-spin, and many more. He is the author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller No Better Friend. Weintraub lives in Decatur, Georgia.
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Obras de Robert Weintraub
No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII (2015) 164 copias
No Better Friend: Young Readers Edition: A Man, a Dog, and Their Incredible True Story of Friendship and Survival in… (2016) 142 copias
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Weintraub, Robert Samuel
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1958
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Ocupaciones
- sportswriter
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 5
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 491
- Popularidad
- #50,320
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 10
- ISBNs
- 32
One can understand why some Pacific POWs doubt the veracity of Judy's story - that a dog, viewed as food by many in the area (including her captors), could have survived where so many men did not.
To say that this story is heart-wrenching for man and dog, puts it mildly.
What drags it down from a five rating is the writing. The author is a sports journalist and at times it reads like a sports column - excessive use of adjectives and adverbs distract from the story. At times it spills over into painful redundancy, for example, "The Grasshopper was in imminent danger of exploding at any minute."
So, 5 for the story but a low 3 for the writing.
That said, I would still recommend this to anyone with an interest in the war in the Pacific as well as dogs in general. Mediocre writing notwithstanding, it is a story worth experiencing.… (más)