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There Is No Dog Hardcover – 4 Aug 2011

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Puffin (4 Aug. 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0141327162
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141327167
  • Product Dimensions: 14.5 x 2.5 x 22.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 695,071 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Praise for The Bride's Farewell: Masterful describes the whole of this narrative. Rosoff not only knows how to tell a tale, she is unashamed of telling it. (Write Away )

Praise for What I Was: Already a classic. (The Sunday Times )

Praise for What I Was: a book which will completely startle you in an awesomely crazy way with an utterly amazing flair. (Olivia, www.spinebreakers.co.uk )

About the Author

Meg Rosoff became a publishing sensation with her first novel, How I Live Now, which won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Branford Boase Award. Her second novel, Just in Case, won the Carnegie Medal in 2007 and What I Was, her third novel, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and was highly acclaimed. Meg lives in London with her husband and daughter.

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5.0 out of 5 starsYou'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want an Eck
By I Read, Therefore I Blog VINE VOICE on 30 July 2011
Format: Hardcover
When Mona wins the earth in a poker game, she gives the job of God to her 17 year old son Bob, who's feckless, careless, self-obsessed, lazy and sex-mad. Instead of thinking through creation, he throws it together in 6 days and has a lie-in on the seventh because it's all been a bit much. The results are left to Bob's assistant, Mr B. to deal with, helped and hindered by Bob's pet eck, Eck. Mr B. is a solid middle manager who'd been hoping to get the God job for himself. Eck is the last of his species - a penguiny creature with a prehensile nose and voracious appetite who has the best tasting meat in the universe.

Together they've managed to muddle through the millennia but cracks are beginning to show. The last thing they need is for Bob to fall in love with the beautiful and Christian Lucy because Bob's love affairs tend to end in fire and brimstone and this time, the earth can't take it ...

Meg Rosoff's novel is a funny, thought-provoking and satirical look at the world we live in that's ultimately very human. It would be a real shame if it got bogged down in anti-religion accusations because for me it's more about the importance of showing consideration and kindness and love to others than it is a polemic about God per se (although it isn't above poking fun at certain beliefs).

The characters are depicted in broad-brush strokes, but they're none the worse for that. Bob is something of an anti-hero, his occasional flashes of genius serving to make up for his whiny self-involvement. As the only teenager in the book, I wonder if there's enough there for YA readers to relate to - especially as there's a tongue in cheek approach to his dilemmas and issues. Mr B is a more staid character, aware that he's not making the difference he wants to make.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA contemporary Greek Myth for our troubled times
By Leyla on 11 Aug. 2011
Format: Hardcover
I am no longer - I once was but well before they had a name for it - a Y(oung) A(dult). But there's more to this disarmingly easy read than meets the eye. It is not just for kids. Meg Rosoff's new novel "There is no Dog" lingers long after you've digested the final optimistic paragraph.

Optimistic? Surely not? Oh, how very unfashionable. Well I say, hurrah for optimism. This is a book that does not preach to its intended young and (despite themselves) impressionable readership. It is not dressed up as polemic. Rather "There is no Dog" presents a beguilingly simple tale, embellished with some delightful surrealist imagery, a contemporary Greek Myth for our troubled times.

The narrative parades an assortment of fabulous individuals (not least the profoundly sympathetic, ultimate civil servant, Mr B; and who could ever forget the truly ghastly Mona, mother of God: a triumph!). Yet the novel's success lies in the philosophy that themes not characters, drive this moral tale.

Tackling troubling issues with her characteristic deft touch, Rosoff's ever-perceptive, distilled prose leaves her reader strangely eased. "There is no Dog" ponders life as a contradictory conundrum to which there is no real answer, whilst leaving you with a disquieting yet deeply reassuring sense that you now understand life a little better.

I already feel the need to read it again.
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5.0 out of 5 starsLoved this book
By Parent of teens on 28 July 2011
Format: Hardcover
From religion to climate change to being a teenager to being a parent of a teen... You won't know whether to laugh or cry! I did both. So clever! You just have to read it.
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3.0 out of 5 starsIt was okay...
By Jess Hearts Books VINE VOICE on 26 Oct. 2011
Format: Hardcover
I originally wanted to read this book for my British Books Challenge with Meg Rosoff being an award winning British writer. Despite a lot of critical acclaim from the press I know a lot of people who either love or hate her books so with There is No Dog being my first book by Rosoff I was interested to see which category I would fall under and now that I've finished reading it I have to say I'm split firmly down the middle.

There is no doubt about the genius behind this book even from the synopsis - god turning out to be a teenage boy, of course! Brilliant! Now it all makes sense! And throughout the book Rosoff continues to explore the meaning of life through the eyes of several characters. The last of an extinct creature who knows he is soon going to die. A goddess who has the gift of immortality and how that brings her to lead an "invincible" lifestyle of excessive drinking and gambling. And, most interestingly of all for me, a vicar who throughout this book witnesses first hand a less than perfect God and has to personally deal with the fall out of Bob's actions. The genius and thought put into this book were incredibly well thought out and thought provoking. I enjoyed that even though this book is essentially a story about religion at no point did it ever feel preachy so props have to go to Meg for that.

Now on to my dislikes. From the back of the book I expected this to be a rather humorous account through the eyes of a teenage god and whilst in some parts that was the case I couldn't help wanting more from that side of the story. I wanted more about the thought process that went into Bob creating the world and more funny mishaps as Bob try's to date a human girl.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsLove it, love it and love it!

So funny and imaginative - what a great idea having God as a teenager. Wonderful, I really love it.

Published 6 months ago by Susanne
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

I love Meg Rosoff, always an impressive and interesting dialogue.

Published 9 months ago by Jessica E.
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Published 19 months ago by Marjorie Sharkey
3.0 out of 5 starswho needs dogs when you have an Eck

The author has a wonderfully intriguing concept with the idea of God as a teenage boy, and all the catastrophies and relationship muddles that go with that. Read more

Published on 25 April 2012 by Jane Penny
5.0 out of 5 starsMore than Seven Comets and Flying Fish

Meg Rosoff's latest book, There Is No Dog, deals with several complex themes and questions: the existence of God, Intelligent Design, extinction of the species, an anti-Leibnizian... Read more

Published on 17 Mar. 2012 by Shelley Souza
5.0 out of 5 starsLRC

Books purchased for LRC (Library) at school and as far as i am aware are all ok with no problems.

Published on 13 Mar. 2012 by no
3.0 out of 5 starsImaginative and strange

This interesting teen book asks what if God were a selfish, lazy 16 year old boy? Bob got the job of God because no one else wanted it, Earth wasn't a glamourous project and no one... Read more

Published on 6 Mar. 2012 by Cathy Hill
4.0 out of 5 starsSeriously original; funny and dramatic

I felt like this book is going to be one of those taboo tales that gets passed around between school kids and referenced by teachers in years to come because the subject matter is... Read more

Published on 9 Nov. 2011 by Sisterspooky
4.0 out of 5 starsNot a Dog

Interesting and unusual novel. The word "dog" is an anagram and there is a certain amount of criticism of religion in the story but nothing much that will offend anyone. Read more

Published on 3 Nov. 2011 by Col
4.0 out of 5 starsone of my books of the year

This may well be the kind of novel some will loathe and others love, but whatever else it does it makes you laugh and think. Read more

Published on 25 Oct. 2011 by Amanda Craig

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