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A good place to begin discussion of Lives of the Monster Dogs might be to compare it with other fantastic and science fiction dealing with talking dogs and other humanized animals. What do these works say, metaphorically, about human beings or about our relationship with the animal world?
Reviewers of Bakis's novel have found many diverse subtexts, including AIDS and Nazism.
What subtexts, or patterns of symbolism, do you find?
1. Lives of the Monster Dogs won the 1997 Bram Stoker Award for best first novel.
The award is given to works of horror fiction. Is Lives of the Monster Dogs a horror novel? If not, what qualities might appeal to readers of horror?
2. Lives of the Monster Dogs abounds in anachronisms and improbable coincidences. Were you able to suspend belief? If so, what made the story believable? If not, why not?
3. When Ludwig is in the hospital...
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