Straw Dogs : Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (Edition 1) (Paperback)

from raggedprince

Bravo! Wanna know what it's all about mate? - read this. You may not agree with all of it - the challenge is to defend your arguments, and your beliefs as they come tumbling down one by one. A short book to start off thought, debate and reading: the bibliography was very useful.

from pessoanongrata

read it again for the first time, and likely i will read this yet again and still find new points and observations that seem to spring anew from his unsentimental reasoning; always, this book will never fail to shake me out of complacent thinking. if anything this book does well, it makes one thi...

from Ravenari

'In this book I have tried to present a view of things in which humans are not central.' John Gray's interesting, sometimes controversial, and often challenging philosophical tome is a must-read.

from Widsith

This smallish book is one of the most depressing and pessimistic 200 pages I have read in a long time. John Gray has been getting darker and darker in his vision of the world and Straw Dogs finally brings him round to bleak nihilism. The book has many virtues. It is written in an admirably simple...

from heathweaver

This book feels very much like a journal of the author's thoughts. There are some very radical and tremendous ideas in the book. It has been highly rated by many major book review sources, but it is similar to the high ratings of 'arty' movies. I think it is an interesting read, but very likely w...