Dachshund Book Review: Frequencies

Hi all. Sasha here as always. I am adjusting with Maddie, and mommy promises she will go home tonight. I think I will have myself a little wiener dog party and make sure Mommy breaks out some serious cheese for all my attempts at chihuahua peace keeping negotiations. heehee

Meanwhile, Mommy and I finished another book. It is called Frequencies by Joshua Ortega. It also takes place a little in the future. Apparently, some human must have caught onto our Doxie mind control devices and was able to control peoples thoughts. Of course, they didn't credit the dachshunds for coming up with the technology. Silly, humans. We dachshunds have had that technology since the 1940's. The squirrels have been trying to steal our secrets for at least two decades now. Well, here I go again off track as usual. Back to the book, well basically, it is pretty good as far as human science fiction goes. It opens up several ethical questions like should people really not have freedom of thought, should they get arrested for having what society views as wrong thoughts, and of course the whole concept of life essences or souls being sucked out and put into new bodies. We dachshunds have not mastered the sucking out ones essence yet, not sure we really want that either. It goes against the whole canine fundamental doctrines. Especially The Prime Doctrine: Live everyday like it might be your last. If one can essentially live "furever", then one can not truly live or a "ruff" translation: It just ain't right messing with the laws of nature. It does end rather strangely so I suspect there is a sequel. Lots of unanswered plot tangents. Oh, it does have this whole futuristic terminology that took a bit to get use to with lots of looking at the back of the book to figure out what things meant. That was a big turn off, and all the trademark products mentioned all the time. I gather they were really focused about the trademark thing cause that is what the mind controls told them to buy, but it is a bit annoying for the first 5 chapters or so. Well, that is my take on this book. A good read if you are plotting to take over the world perhaps. heehee.

Doxie Book Review: Patient Zero

Sasha here. Mommy and I just gots done reading another library book so heres my take on it.

The book is called Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry. It is a part science fiction, part horror, and mostly very suspense driven. I rate it as more of a "guy" type book myself because it is full of cops, blowing up things, government agents, zombies, spies, and you don't know who's good or bad or what. Plus, my big brother Charlie liked the book way more than me so I thinks it is a guy book. The character relationships are not as much touched on as the plot. It is an OK book in the fact it is fast paced and doesn't dwell on a lot of unnecessary description. Mommy and I like books that have more plot and character interaction than lots of flowery descriptive words. However, the hero is very stereotypical. One guy and a handful of a few support characters take on unrealistic numbers of flesh eating zombies and come out without being bit. Really, that could not ever possibly happen in real life. Just like those disaster movies on TV where the whole city is destroyed except for the hero, his girl, and maybe the family dog. Really, me thinks not!!

Then, there is the fact that if a terrorist was truly going to take over the world with the undead spreading a virus that turns everyone into zombies, there are a few ways I would think would do it faster. So why humans? Humans are way easier to contain. It would be much easier to infect the virus into mosquito's or rats or something if they wanted it to truly spread and be unstoppable. But, then again, the stereotypical human hero would not survive and live somewhat happily ever after with his chosen mate now would he? heehee