Immerse In Doctor Rat Documented By William Kotzwinkle Accessible As Hardcover

out as a joke, then a horror story, then some philosophical mumbo jumbo, followed by a trance, then chaos, and finally, debris, The randomness, the flaws and the madness contained within these pages made for a lovehate reading experience,

It's not entirely enjoyable there were boring inanities, there were cringeworthy episodes and there were also moments of absolute beauty,

From the getgo, it seemed a pretty straightforward satire on animal testing, It might even be a little preachy to some,


But past the first half of the book and along the way I contemplated on discontinuing the read because of the seemingly haphazard plot and writing, a bigger, deceptively hopeful but ultimately stark picture emerges.


I'm glad I plodded on when the narrative got gratingly repetitive I think it's purposefully written that way, because it's cray cray Doctor Rat, after all.
The story may be taken at face value, but it could also be an allegory to oppression, delusion and doomed naivety on a bigger scale,

Sadly, this is too scary and too layered to ever be adapted into anything else that's more accessible, As a statement the author couldn't have made his stance better than this,

Everybody hurts. I read this when I was a kid and it blew a great number of my circuits, Doctor Rat is a Quisling rat in a laboratory full of animals undergoing senseless experiments, often depicted quite graphically, This episodic novel eschews stridency for a very dark satire that gets under the skin, All of the labanimals are anthropomorphicized, like a Disney film created by sick maniacs on datura, Makes The Secret of NIMH look like Pollyanna, I was really looking forward to reading this book, It won the World Fantasy award and a science fiction novel that took on animal rights as a subject could be bold and provocative reading,
However, I was extremely disappointed, The book rests on a single joke, that the scientists are subjecting the animals to brutal experiments and Dr, Rat is trying to justify them to the suffering animals,
Even though the book is not long it is far too long for this single joke to sustain it, I was hoping for a complex exploration of the subject with competing points of view, I do not think this novel will convince anybody to think of animal rights in anyway differently, Subtle, it ain't. While 'Doctor Rat' is inventive and often darkly funny, I grew tired both of being hit in the face with Kotzwinkle's message, and of his jumpy, verbose, stream of consciousness style.
very detailed disgusting and gory but pretty insightful Before I begin, I'd like to share few facts about me, I love animals. Probably more than humans. I've been vegetarian for twenty years, more than half of my life, I can easily enjoy epic battles and stories, in which human suffer and die, But if

you hurt a dog or a cat a rage ignites in me, I can't help it.

This book contains extensive and visceral scenes of animal experimentation and it pulls no punches, Whole species are destroyed. Despite using grotesque aesthetic and containing hilarious moments, it was a difficult book for me,

Kotzwinkle's imaginative fable features Doctor Rat, friend to man and foe to all other species, Doctor Rat is an insane lab rat who revels in the despair and brutality of animal experiments, He's even composing songs in honor of gruesome experiments,

When animals start to prepare rebellion, Doc wants to squash it,

There's plenty of shifting perspectives in the book, The plot revolves around Doc Rat fighting against the rebellion, but we see parts of the plot told through the eyes of other animals and species, The ones near the end of the novel are heartbreaking and lyrical, Sentimental Probably yes.

Obviously, there are oversimplifications and shortcuts in this book, Animals are beautiful, humans cruel and sadistic, The balance is off and the perspective is strongly biased, But it does deliver a message that can be interpreted in many ways,

Is it a lifechanging book I don't know, I've made plenty of adjustments to my life years ago and I do my best to minimize my negative impact on the environment, I guess, I still can improve in certain areas,

It's definitely a book that got more than one visceral reaction from me, It's devastating and powerfully written, It's a book that made me want to shout "To hell with Pacifism!" and build a bomb or, even better, hack a Death Star and wipe out all laboratories that experiment with animals from the face of the earth.


It's a brutal and maniacal satire, It's terrifying, heartwrenching, grotesque and sad, Usually, I plow through books like Duracell bunny on speed, but in this case, I had to make frequent pauses because it was a bit too much for me.


Imposible no reflexionar y sentir empatía por el dolor que provocamos a millones de seres cada día,
Muy bueno. This book defies easy description by the plain simple fact that it transcends itself, over and over,

I mean, it starts out with Doctor Rat, a grantsubsidized scientist performing experiments on other animals in a way that seems like a diatribe against animal experimentation, but along with his poetry and his singing, he goes well beyond that kind of tale by outdoing the sheer evil of the Nazi scientists in WWII, becoming an antirevolutionary bastion, and out Darth Vadering Darth Vader.


Did I laugh my head off at the point where he had his commentaries about human musicians pulling a David Attenborough on the whales while they waxed rhapsodic about how smart they were Yes!

But when we get to a full revolution remember, this book came out inof the animals versus the humans, with Doctor in his finest, most horrific mode, this book becomes a full worldwar as tragic, scary, and batst insane as any of the best war documentaries.
It's bloody, full of truly terrible biological warfare, and when whole battalions of elephants get, . . hey! Well no spoilers it's brilliant. Disgusting. And amazing.

This satire goes WELL beyond its humble beginnings and skewers everything it touches,

Oh, and it makes a good case to stop castrating rats, Just imagine if this one rat had not been castrated, then so much tragedy could have been avoided, . .

It's really hard for me to review this book because it's not what I call an enjoyable read, but it's a necessary read, The premise of the story is that there is a laboratory which is using animals for research and that research is being described from the viewpoint of one of the rats involved in the research.
It's bone chilling. It's funny in a sadistic satirical way, But it's not an easy or comfortable read at all, The prose is almost musical in its quality, and the visual images that the author constructs are vivid and believable, But if you're an animal lover, it'll give you nightmares,
This book made me squirm when I first read it many years ago, But I've learned to appreciate the bizarre humor of it over time, It teaches you a lot about the world we live in and the creatures we live among, disagreed with the book on almost every level, but it still made me laugh, I understood the concept and agree that animal rights is all something we should be aware of but the story itself is choppy and a bit monotonous to read.
An allegorical account of animal rebellion which is distrubing on multiple levels, It is an account of an uprising told, for the most part, from the perspective of a lab rat whose selfacclaimed lofty position casts his allegiance to the ruling species and its causes.


On one level there are obvious symbolic parallels to the Nazi death camps and other situations where absolute control is exercised by one group over another without any sort of accountability.
But more disturbing are the descriptions of actual experimental practices which, whether we want to think about it or not, are probably going on in laboratories every day.


Enveloping this factualtosymbolic continuum, the author alludes to the existence of a greater something an undefined yet pervasive awareness shared by all in the animal kingdom oh.
. . , except the species that believes itself the master of all others, which appears to be oblivous to that something,
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