Bad Dog!: A Memoir of Love, Beauty, and Redemption in Dark Places
by Lin Jensen
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Author: Lin JensenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-27
ISBN: 0861714865
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
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Book Review: One of the most beautiful books I've read
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a fan of really good writing as well as Buddhism. I read this book several months ago and always meant to write a review about it. So today I finally got around to it and browsed the reviews written before me to see that all the superlatives had been already taken.
Gut-wrenching, beautiful,powerful.
This book touched me as very few have. It is a must-read regardless of its subject matter because of the quality of the writing alone. I could feel this kid's life. His loneliness, alienation and neediness.
Like many great books it can be read on different levels. As a personal memoir of growing up in a particular time and place with a particular type of upbringing. As a lay Buddhist book; essentially a primer of how to step away from a world of samsara and build for yourself, step by step, act by act, a life of peace, love and compassion.
What a journey he's had. How amazing that he shared it with us.
It's an elegant, lyrical, deceptively "deep" book which really deserves a much wider audience.(Read it and imagine that it's Number One on the N.Y. Times bestseller list and see if you feel just a little more hopeful).
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