what is the book with something about the doldrums and a watchdog (a dog with a watch in him)?
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yeah phantom tollbooth good book take a read.
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Go to Yahoo or Google and do a search for the title.  You'll get a lot of hits.  This one is really good, from an online review at amazon.com:\n\n "Black Dogof Fate" Is a Fuzzy Grey Beast at Best , May 24, 2005\nReviewer:Bedros Afeyan "Bedros Afeyan" (Pleasanton, CA) - See all my reviews\n(REAL NAME)   \nPeter Balakian's book, "Black Dog of Fate," tries to be too many things\nand sadly fails at many of them. In essence, it is an attempt to tell a\nsort of Armenian-American story which I find not overly interesting or\ncompelling. I wish the author had done a bit more in-depth work to learn\nabout his people and their rich heritage before embarking to represent it\nor explain it or share it with non-Armenians, for he has much more to absorb\nand understand himself first. I find the Armenianness in this book to be\ntentative, unengaged and unconvincing. Pity, since the author seems to\nhave a lot of passion in his pursuit of other aspects of his life such as\nfootball, the Yankees, modern poetry, and exposing Turkish attempts to\nbuy (among others) Princeton professors to act as mouthpieces giving\nlegitimacy to their vile historical revisionism, practiced by the\n"modern" Turkish state and its organs.\n\nIt seems to be all the rage these days to elevate personal histories and\nfamily testimonials into the realm of fiction and novels. The "I" and "we"\nand "us" occupy center stage and the reader is invited to enjoy the\nintimacy that must surely be in place via this artifice. But is it realy?\nSince in order to make this legitimate, the writer must distance himself,\nat least initially, from all this old world exotica, and like the reader,\nquestion their validity or relevance in present day North American\nsociety. What are all these old world, old fashioned ghosts and traditions?,\nis the first cry of writer and reader alike, only, ofcourse, to be followed\nby a sharp bank turn where the writer steers the satisfied and in-place\nreader towards the opposite viewpoint wherein *this* culture and *this*\nlifestyle become suspect in light of some tentative spotting of cultural\nwealth that has been traded in or abandoned in order to swim swiftly towards\nmaterialistic, memory-free, self-redefining, "comfort" seeking and buying\nmores.\n\nIn the Balakian tale, one encounters suburbia instead of substance,\nworldly goods acquisition instead of deep roots that steady the soul,\nimmediate family and relatives running away from their true identities either\ntowards surrealism, the abstract and unemotional, or else towards medicine,\nrespectability and detachment. Young Balakian observes but never\nunderstands "the grandmother" for she is shielded culturally from being\nable to reach him by her very offsprings who can not and will not instill\nthe Armenian identity he will eventually seek but never quite find. Their\ncrime is self-denial and a march to the tune of America's mixmaster\npiper. "Be unlike your past and your future will be brighter," seems to be\nwhat America promises, at the very least. The intermediate generation listens\nand adopts this credo and Peter is left to find out but never quite\nunderstand just what cost his ancestors have paid to remain Armenian and\nto preserve our culture before the final denials on New Jersey pateos while\nenjoying, as if to serve sweet irony, full course Armenian meals and the\nmixing aromas of delicacies from the old country every Sunday.\n\nPeter is lost alright, but as the book sadly shows, he remains lost.\nParaphrasing or quoting Ambassador Morgenthau does not an Armenian genocide\nexpert make. Personal family testimonials of the Turkish atrocities does\nnot a genocide history make (For that, read Vahakn Dadrian's "The History\nof the Armenian Genocide" Berghahn Books, 1995). Episodic accounts can be\ndismissed by the Turks as hear-say and as mere isolated incid
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I havent  read that book since like the 5th grade. I think its about a boy who gets lost on an island with a blind man. blah blah blah skip to the  end; the blind guy sacrifices his life for the kid.
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http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/beasts.html
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Check Amazon.com.  Or if not there ebay.  If not there try just typing it in to Google.  I have never personally heard of the book so I'm not sure what the results will be.  Good Luck.
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It's "The Little School Bus" by Carol Roth. It has a goat with a coat, and a pig with a wig. I hope this helps!!
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Check here:\n\nhttp://www.novedge.com/Book_Show.asp?ASIN=0071361057
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Joseph Heller's "Catch 22" is great. You should also read Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mocking Bird." That is a truly awesome book.
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Seeing-eye dog.\nWalks on four legs, like a chair (b/c a chair has 4 legs)
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I have read tons of books,  but I never even heard of this one, Where can I find it? sorry, cant help you.
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The book you're looking for is 'Donald Duck and the Magic Stick'.\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394825640/102-2603462-3342552?v=glance&n=283155
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This doesn't appear to be a book sold by Amazon\nhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/002-2230118-7754447?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=stripbooks%3Arelevance-above&field-keywords=the%20running%20man
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From the book of the same name
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But what's the book about?
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Its a Book by Dan Brown\n\nwww.danbrown.com
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go to amazon.com and do a search. I have the book but never read it not my kind of book.
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scout...\n\nit's a good book if you'd actually READ it...