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Title: Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name (Common Reader Editions) by Vicki Hearne, Donald McCraig ISBN: 1-58579-012-5 Publisher: Trafalgar Square Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Adam's Task
Comment: If you are interested in exploring deeply the underpinnings of our attempts to share meaningful relationships with animals, don't let the previous negative reviews dissuade you from reading this beautiful book. If you personally have a deep relationship with an animal or animals, you know what she says is true.
For those who don't have such relationships, in particular the aforementioned reviewers, let me just say that you are welcome to persist in your positivist, reductionist, rationalist, anthropocentric world view. Just don't presume to speak for the rest of us who see a bit beyond it, or deny the existence of that which you cannot experience or understand.
Rating: 1
Summary: She can train them...
Comment: What cheap criticism would be complete without a personal attack? I do not like Vicky Hearne for many reasons, but the main one is her pretentious assumptions about the mental processes of the animal. She can have any dialogue she wants running through her head while interacting with an animal, but it is arrogant to the extreme to impose it upon the animal's mind. This seems to contradict her belief that the animal must be approached with a respect for its "moral and intellectual capacities". To further this, she goes on about the contempt that animals feel towards being bribed or patronized. If animals were so morally enlightened, then they would be aware that walking away from a command "with a stiffness expressive of deep disgust" would perpetuate the contempt of the human, and possibly result in some decisive discipline involving a rifle. Hearne also devotes an unusually large amount of words to the topic of mental handicaps in humans. Obviously, she is providing a comparison to an animal's cognitive ability, but her rambling and hedging of the subject is plain annoying. Also annoying is her use of high rhetoric and continual name-dropping of venerable philosophers and writers. Yippee... she can read! Just saying the names "Plato", "Shakespeare", and "Nietzsche", does not exempt one from actually addressing their writings and how they relate to her points. She also disturbingly brings up, then hedges, around the term "Philia" (p 234), trying to define what others interpreted it as meaning, but ultimately going nowhere with it. Hmmm... perhaps something was on her mind at the time?
Rating: 1
Summary: Sadistic thuggery
Comment: How sad to see this bit of sadistic thuggery reissued. This is a book about the poetic joys of torturing dogs. One sample: Hearne describes how she helped her dog dig a hole, while dancing playfully around with the dog, filled the hole with water, still acting playful with the dog, then suddenly, without any warning, forced the dog's head under water and subjected her to near drowning. What the dog must have thought of that hideous and incomprehensible betrayal I cannot even begin to imagine. And yet reviewers prattle on about what a lovely book this is. I think dogs would disagree. The book is also nauseatingly pretentious.
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Title: Bandit: Dossier of a Dangerous Dog by Vicki Hearne, John Hollander, Robert Simon ISBN: 158579046X Publisher: Akadine Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Animal Happiness by Vicki Hearne ISBN: 0060926066 Publisher: Harperperennial Library Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Animal Rights and Human Obligations (2nd Edition) by Tom Regan ISBN: 0130368644 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 08 February, 1989 List Price(USD): $56.00 |
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Title: Three Famous Short Novels : Spotted Horses Old Man The Bear by William Faulkner ISBN: 0394701496 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 February, 1958 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Koehler Method of Dog Training by William Koehler ISBN: 0876056575 Publisher: Hungry Minds, Inc Pub. Date: June, 1974 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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