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Post by adcooper on Jul 22, 2009 14:26:57 GMT -5
Almondine revealed herself to me as a sort of Golden Retriever-Irish Setter cross. Silky, intelligent, gentle. Of course, I always fall for the setter faces.
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Post by guiltygirl on Aug 2, 2009 19:07:37 GMT -5
I just read this book-and it was a great book until the end-Not a very happy ending-yet Edgar was reunited with Almondine and his father. claude had to have died-but his poor mother is only going back to her dark place-she hasn't had a very good life-orphaned, miscarriages, a mute son, then to lose her husband and her son. -and the dogs gone to the wild? - I want a Sawtelle Dog. I felt they were very large and a shepard type. The dogs were great.
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Post by niaru on Aug 3, 2009 8:00:36 GMT -5
I agree, GuiltyGirl, I HATED it when Almondine died! The ending didn't bother me so much, as it was more thought provoking and in the vein of Greek tragedies (I'm with Ad on that one) but I really would have liked Claude to die as well. lol
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Post by adcooper on Aug 3, 2009 10:34:06 GMT -5
Claude died. He had to. How could he have survived that.
And I was prepared for Almondine to die--she was aging--but the boy's betrayal of her and her heartbreak--that was terrible. Their reunion in the end was necessary for me.
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Post by Bara on Aug 5, 2009 3:45:32 GMT -5
Yes, that was the agony. After all she'd done for him. His guilt was pretty unbearable, too. Deserved, but unbearable.
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