His accounts of Freddie the Fly reaffirm my life stance. ( )

As a person who has learned to communicate with the various dogs who have shared their lives with me, I was able to be open to the premise of this book. I was willing to accept the communication with the housefly, but that is probably the most unusual case of animal communication that I have ever read about. If one can accept the idea that each animal group is organized by a greater group Soul or Deva, then it is likely that there could be communication from one's own Soul level to the Soul entity embodying that group. ( )

Fascinating little book about the author's adventures in communicating with and receiving wisdom from a number of critters, including a housefly. Most memorably and eloquently, though, he tells of his time as student of the great movie dog Strongheart, whose seeming presence and intelligence turns out not to be a result of Hollywood trickery. ( )

I can't decide whether I liked this book or not. I guess that's why I gave it two and a half stars. I love the concept of communing with all animal life forms and enjoying the enlightenment that accrues from that. I can even believe that it happens. The problem I had with the book was in the writing style I guess. I wanted to keep reading to see where Mr. Boone was going with his postulation and he had a habit of leaving me a bit high and dry at the end of each chapter so that I needed to get into the next one fairly quickly to find out where he actually was going. I found that a bit "novelistic", if I can get away with using a word like that.
I want more so I will read more of his writing to see what else I might learn.
I wonder if he ever heard a tree scream when it was cut into. ( )