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| Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog | 
 enlarge | Author: Ted Kerasote
Creator: Patrick Lawlor
Publisher: Tantor Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  186 reviews
Sales Rank: 1160885
Format: Audiobook, Cd, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged
Media: MP3 CD
Edition: MP3 Una
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 1400153573
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70929
EAN: 9781400153572
ASIN: 1400153573
Publication Date: July 1, 2007
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Need to read June 14, 2007
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
At the risk of crowding too many laudatory adjectives into one review, I must tell you that MERLE'S DOOR is a tender, touching, poignant story of the love between an extraordinary dog and his equally extraordinary human. Even if you don't live with a dog--and I don't--I promise that you will lose your heart to this wonderful book. If you do live with a dog, you'll thrill (and cry) with recognition. Don't miss this experience.
Explosively Superb! September 11, 2007
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
This book was UNBELIEVABLE. This was quite possibly the best book I have ever read. It was so intelligent, interesting, well written, suspenseful, insightful, heart rending and hilarious. I was up half the night AFTER I finished it contemplating its many facets. I cannot recommend this enough. Make no mistake, this is a story of deep, life changing friendship that few, if any, of us ever experience in our lives with anybody. It is a love story, and a tale of life's deepest lessons, told with such flair you cannot stop reading. Ted Kerasote is a man I would really like to meet. He is insightful and above all one of the most compassionate people I have ever read about. And what a life, full of excitement and adventure, and Merle is along for every experience, contributing his unique input at every opportunity.
I also admire a tale about letting your dog be a DOG and not treating it like a stuffed animal....i.e. carrying it around in a pocketbook like a fashion accessory. I only wish I could provide my dogs with a mountain range teeming with wildlife and a town full of other friendly people and dogs to romp with off leash.
I was literally sobbing at the end, and I felt this book opened my eyes in the sense that it brings home a point we all know but seldom think about. Life is so, so short for all of us, and if we pay attention, we can make sure our time on this earth is filled with happiness, earth shattering love, beauty, peace, and deep meaning if we let it.
 Shoulda Ordered Something Else October 17, 2007
14 out of 51 found this review helpful
First of all, most dogs I know have been raised in the city or suburbs. They are not left to roam freely as Merle was. If they were, they would have had very short lives. Since most people I know have regular 9 to 5 jobs, they are not afforded the luxury this author had of earning his living. In addition, if I wanted to know the boring results of countless studies, I would have picked that type of book to read. This was supposed to be a story about a DOG! Sometimes the results of the studies he referred to went on endlessly, and I finally got to skipping over them in order to finish the book. And most of all, he needs to read " A Dog's Prayer" which in part says: "...should the Great Master see fit to deprive me of my health or sight, hold me gently in your arms as skilled hands grant me the mercy of eternal rest." He was irresponsible not to give Merle that final gift.
The most touching book I've read in a long time... July 10, 2007
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I bought this book knowing nothing about it or the author. I love dogs and had the love of my life dog pass away about 2 years ago. I've read Marley and Me and other dog books, but somehow they didn't come close to expressing the bond between man and dog as this book does so flawlessly. I read the book right away as we are now raising two puppies and I thought the book would be instructional. Wow. Although the book is instructional, it is so much more than that. This book touched me like nothing has in a long time. I finished it last night and I still can't think about it without choking up. What a life! It makes me want to go put my arms around the author and tell him I understand.
Bravo!! Well written. 5 stars. I loved it. I wish I had known Merle.
Better than Marley & Me, best dog book ever! June 28, 2007
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is by FAR the best book about the relationship between a person and a dog that I have ever read. Merle's Door makes Marley & Me look like See Spot Run. Kerasote lyrically and eloquently memorializes his relationship with Merle from the sad-yet-hope-filled beginning to the intensely heart-wrenching end. And Merle wasn't the only dog in this book that touched my soul and moved me to tears. Kerasote's fickle girlfriend (who defines the term "shallow") had a golden retriever I fell in love with as well. In addition to detailing the 13 lucky years Kerasote was blessed with Merle, the book is full of fascinating information about dogs and the relationship they've forged with people since the beginning of mankind. The book's subtitle: "Lessons from a Freethinking Dog" refers to the unique advantages that gave Merle the ability to be truly free, and what that freedom taught his alert and observant human friend -- about Merle, dogs in general and Kerasote's own character. Not every dog is able to roam free, but every dog will benefit in some way from Merle's lessons. I love my golden retriever, and thanks to Kerasote and his beautiful book, my dog's life is about to improve. I can't thank him enough. Even if you don't have a dog, Merle's Door is well worth the read.
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