Even though it is so interconnected with everything that's going on in the book, Enzo's master being a car race driver. And I truly don't think that the idea for this book is too miraculous - in my own experience dogs are extremely sensitive and intelligent creatures.What I didn't care for was the "car racing" metaphor for "life", or, rather, I didn't care for the technicalities and history of car racing itself (I really felt like skipping those parts.). who likes "to live every day as if it were stolen from death, that is how I would love to live". indeed!) who discerns so well what people are all about: that "be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves". To worry about doing the right thing, rather than doing what is most expedient" (hmm. even though he wonders ".how difficult it must be to be a person. I loved the perspicacious dog Enzo, the true protagonist of the book, who tells the story and ruminates on the meaning of life, who longs to be a human being in his next life ("Here is why I will be a good person. not in an ebullient way that I suspected at first when I picked it up, but on a different level.
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