FLUKE

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Summary: What,My Favorite Movie a Book?
Review: A father dies in a car accident when driving fast home from work. Tom then comes back as a dog,a mutt. He meets another dog,who soon dies while they escape a chemist lab for dogs. Tom meets a poor lady and earns her money by a game that he wins. She names him "Fluke". He goes to his original family,where he see's his son and has no way to tell him who he is. The family decides to adopt him,then when his wife's new husband walks in oneday,Fluke attacks her. They then throw Fluke outside and don't let him in. The next day there is a blizzard and Tom's son is sick. The boy comes after Fluke,wanting his dog back. When he finds Fluke,at night,he is freezing,almost dead. The mother comes in and see's Fluke and the boy,near Tom's grave. Tom uses his paw to whipe away something on his grave that said "And Forever He Lay In Peace". His wife soon knew who he was and began to cry silently. She grabbed her child and Fluke ran away. The next day he was in the country and was far away. Then he met his friend,who had died,and was now in a squirrle body.

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Summary: A beautiful, moving novel
Review: A while back someone attempted to make a movie of this book and screwed up completely, turning a beautiful, moving novel rich with spirituality into a cleaned-up pseudo-heartwarming Disneyfied kiddie pic. What a shame. This is one of the most beautiful novels I have ever read and it's spiritual message about acceptance and moving on, as well as the wages of karma, cannot be ignored. If you can find it, read it (ignore the classification on the spine, although "Fluke" is written by a horror writer, it is NOT horror).

Rating:
Summary: A beautiful, moving novel
Review: A while back someone attempted to make a movie of this book and screwed up completely, turning a beautiful, moving novel rich with spirituality into a cleaned-up pseudo-heartwarming Disneyfied kiddie pic. What a shame. This is one of the most beautiful novels I have ever read and it's spiritual message about acceptance and moving on, as well as the wages of karma, cannot be ignored. If you can find it, read it (ignore the classification on the spine, although "Fluke" is written by a horror writer, it is NOT horror).

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Summary: Gentle fantasy is a shocking change of pace.
Review: Fluke tells the tale of an abandoned dog named Fluke that has past life memories of being a man, a man that was evidently murdered. Fluke then goes on an odyssey to find his home, his family, and his killer. Getting there alternates between funny and frightening. Herbert shows genuine skill as a fantasist here and I wish it was a talent that he tried explore more often, as this is his best novel.

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Summary: Gentle fantasy is a shocking change of pace.
Review: Fluke tells the tale of an abandoned dog named Fluke that has past life memories of being a man, a man that was evidently murdered. Fluke then goes on an odyssey to find his home, his family, and his killer. Getting there alternates between funny and frightening. Herbert shows genuine skill as a fantasist here and I wish it was a talent that he tried explore more often, as this is his best novel.

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Summary: VERY FUNNY BUT I WOULD NOT CLASS IT AS A HORROR!
Review: I found the book very funny although it said it was a horror. it wasn't scary at all.

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Summary: There's more to life...
Review: I've read hundreds of books in my life but only a handfull have really touched me. This is one of them. It's a simple story but it's told so well you can feel the frustration of the main character. I read this book a few years ago and to this day, it makes me wonder what my dog is really thinking or seeing. Most books have reviews that say things like, "couldn't put it down" or "made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up". This book really did all that and more. If you're looking for a good quick book, this is the one.

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Summary: Beautiful and Moving
Review: It was a dog's life for Fluke the puppy until the images that had been haunting his canine mind came into sharp focus - he wasn't supposed to be a dog, he was actually a MAN! How had he ended up in this furry body? What of his wife, his child? What of HIM? Soon, though, the truth came - he the man had died, and had been reincartnated as a dog. And the visions hinted that he had been murdered! This begins a quest as Fluke sets out to his old town, determined to deliver out justice to whoever murdered him...An excellent book and a personal favorite of mine. But the best part of all was Fluke. He remained at all times a dog, even though he had human intelligence and memories, rather than some bizarre mix of human and animal that all too many books have. Fluke's friend Rumbo is also an enjoyable character, even if he did have a passion for crime. One of the best, well-written and beautiful stories I have ever read.

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Summary: Beautiful and Moving
Review: It was a dog's life for Fluke the puppy until the images that had been haunting his canine mind came into sharp focus - he wasn't supposed to be a dog, he was actually a MAN! How had he ended up in this furry body? What of his wife, his child? What of HIM? Soon, though, the truth came - he the man had died, and had been reincartnated as a dog. And the visions hinted that he had been murdered! This begins a quest as Fluke sets out to his old town, determined to deliver out justice to whoever murdered him...An excellent book and a personal favorite of mine. But the best part of all was Fluke. He remained at all times a dog, even though he had human intelligence and memories, rather than some bizarre mix of human and animal that all too many books have. Fluke's friend Rumbo is also an enjoyable character, even if he did have a passion for crime. One of the best, well-written and beautiful stories I have ever read.

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Summary: not the usual James Herbert
Review: There is the James Herbert who pioneered the visceral "creature feature" which emerged in Britain just as Stephen King was inventing modern American horror fiction, there is the James Herbert who went on to create tense supernatural or alternative reality thrillers - and then we have the James Herbert who wrote Fluke. This particular James Herbert has not really written anything similar since. The original publisher's blurb on the cover said: "The story of a man who thinks he's a dog...or a dog who thinks he's a man." There is no more concise way of summarising the plot. Perfectly imagined, beautifully-paced. For my money, this ranks alongside, if not ahead of, the best of Richard Adams. I remember seeing a TV interview with Herbert in which he recalled that his publisher was horrified by the manuscript...because there was no horror. He suggested that Herbert make the dog rabid. Luckily, Herbert didn't listen.