Talk:The Plague Dogs (novel)

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If anybody could add something more, I'd be happy ^^;

I don't think it's necessary to have separate pages for the two dogs - they're unlikely to be searched for directly. I'd integrate their stories with the main page. Also, your descriptions could lose a few subjective adjectives - "poor dog", "miraculous" etc.

More facts about the book would be nice if you can find any. From what I can remember of it, I'd be surprised if it hasn't been championed by animal rights activists, condemned by companies that carry out animal testing, etc. Rls 13:33, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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Book v. Movie

I don't think this article should integrate stuff about the movie, it shold cover the book and only the book. A list of differences between the book and movie really belongs on the movie's article, since it was based off of the book. If the article is really so short that we have to add stuff that should be in other rticles, we are doing something wrong. Magicallydajesus 04:23, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Basis in reality?

Adams based the book's research station on a real farm. This may be sufficiently notable to refer to, but it is not the films "Basis in reality", which conveys an entirely different meaning.Royalcourtier (talk) 02:02, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Wombat140 (talk) 17:33, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Black milk

Can anyone think what the "black milk" is, referred to repeatedly throughout the book, that's "kept upside down in a bowl on the ceiling"? I can't work it out. Of course, it may be purely imaginary, since it's only ever described by Snitter. Wombat140 (talk) 15:46, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Is "fantasy" the right category?

I don't think this book should be classed as fantasy. Nothing supernatural happens in it, with the exception of the ghost chapter and a few things in Snitter's hallucinations which he apparently couldn't have known (but at those points the book is being so "experimental" that I'm not sure it really counts - it almost seems to abandon the idea that any of this is "really happening" in those passages). You might say that it's not proven whether or not dogs are even capable of conscious thought and hence of being point-of-view characters, but there's no particular reason to think they're *not* (in fact, the evidence seems to be stacking up in Adams's favour). I'd have described it more as a thriller, in which the protagonists happen to be dogs. If you did classify it as "speculative fiction" on the grounds that he's only speculating about what a dog's view of the world might be, then I'd call that science fiction - speculative psychology, which might or might not turn out in future to be true. "Fantasy" implies that what happens in it is meant to be impossible or supernatural, which is not the case.I've gone ahead and edited accordingly. By the way, I've finished the infobox (all that was lacking was identification of Wainwright as the illustrator), but not being a Wikipedia regular I diidn't know whether I should remove the tag or not. Wombat140 (talk) 16:12, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]