David Duchovny
Audio | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 3.34 | 6754 Users | 1279 Reviews
Itemize Of Books Holy Cow
| Title | : | Holy Cow |
| Author | : | David Duchovny |
| Book Format | : | Audio |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | February 3rd 2015 by Headline |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Fantasy. Animals |
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A rollicking, globe-trotting adventure with a twist: a four-legged heroine you won’t soon forgetElsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that—her long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, and chatting with her best friend, Mallory. One night, Elsie and Mallory sneak out of their pasture; but while Mallory is interested in flirting with the neighboring bulls, Elsie finds herself drawn to the farmhouse. Through the window, she sees the farmer’s family gathered around a bright Box God—and what the Box God reveals about something called an “industrial meat farm” shakes Elsie’s understanding of her world to its core.
There’s only one solution: escape to a better, safer world. And so a motley crew is formed: Elsie; Jerry—excuse me, Shalom—a cranky, Torah-reading pig who’s recently converted to Judaism; and Tom, a suave (in his own mind, at least) turkey who can’t fly, but who can work an iPhone with his beak. Toting stolen passports and slapdash human disguises, they head for the airport.
Elsie is our wise-cracking, pop-culture-reference-dropping, slyly witty narrator; Tom—who does eventually learn to fly (sort of)—dispenses psychiatric advice in a fake German accent; and Shalom, rejected by his adopted people in Jerusalem, ends up unexpectedly uniting Israelis and Palestinians. David Duchovny’s charismatic creatures point the way toward a mutual understanding and acceptance that the world desperately needs.
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| Original Title: | Holy Cow |
| ISBN: | 1472225902 (ISBN13: 9781472225900) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Of Books Holy Cow
Ratings: 3.34 From 6754 Users | 1279 ReviewsAppraise Of Books Holy Cow
So, I read Holy Cow by David Duchovny. Its the first new book Ive read in probably forever. Im a Duchovny fan, or more an X-Files fan. In an interview with Bill Maher, Duchovny states that hes not out to make a statement, but just to generate questions, and discussion, and thought. Okay, fair enough, I suppose, but the book seemed to be an attempt at making a point. Particularly about humans just getting along and respecting each other, as well as animals. Respect the earth and all itsOk. I like cows and I like David Duchovny. Therefore, I felt that a book about a cow by David Duchovny would be right up my street. I have to say, having now read the book, I am a little nonplussed.For me, there are two ways that you can take this book. One as a serious satire highlighting the injustices in our world and the interspecies prejudices that animals face an allegory for racism or you can read it a second way. The second reading of the book would indicate to me that David Duchovny
bizarre but good. thought provoking.
Thrilled that Duchovny even went out and bothered to write this. Love it!There are educational tidbits strewn throughout this wonderful little book,done in such a way as to be quirky and dare I say a little adorable.It does feel like it just sort of ends, and I guess I was expecting more which is my own fault.But one thing about this book put a spur in my spokes and has been niggling at me since it first became apparent (around the time of the first "milking" which takes place before the cow has
As an animal advocate and a vegan, I really wanted to love David Duchovny's intelligent and wisecracking new book, "Holy Cow." There are indeed aspects of this bizarre animal Odyssey of a cow, a pig and a turkey searching for a home where they will be loved and safe that make important points. In this passage, Elsie the cow has just learned the truth about dairy cows and their sad fate as well as that of their children: "You humans drink our milk and eat the eggs of the chickens and the ducks.
Did not finish (*could!!* not finish). Clever premise, horrible delivery. Unless you want to read a book narrated by a cow who peppers her speech with every annoying of-the-moment turn of phrase ('cray cray', for example), pop culture reference, and lots of 'wait til you see what happens next' and 'did you see how i did that? my editor said I needed to' comments to the reader, this one's definitely a book to skip.
Nothing more appropriate could have happened to me than to read Holy Cow by David Duchovny in a holiday time. Christmas and New Year are holidays when we remember our loved ones, everyone who has in any good way influenced us during the year or even a few years before.But it is also a time when we easily forget those outside our field of vision, those we subconsciously push out of their existence. The hidden faces of holidays.A happy cow Elise Bovary, a grumpy pig Shalom and a suave turkey Tom
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