Stubby the war dog by ann bausum5/31/2023 Pam Ward is perfect as always narrating this moving and heartwarmingly stubby tail.or tale? lol p.s. I barely made it through the main narration. I was really looking forward to this story. What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment? It was highly distracting and occasionally infuriating. She almost sounded happy, like she was telling a joke, when reciting gruesome casualty numbers. She used a light, jovial, almost sing-song tone, entirely inappropriate for a story about a war. What didn’t you like about Pam Ward’s performance? Heart wrenching, personal, vulnerable, uplifting, and warm. The foreword, written by the grandson of Sgt Stubby's owner, who is himself a veteran suffering from PTSD, was probably the best part. What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting? And with hundreds of thousands of people dead, it's not an appropriate joke either. Yes, it's a story about WWI, we know that they are "literally" in the trenches. Multiple times the author over-sized the word "literally," and the narrator's obvious amusement over the weak-but-oft-repeated joke was infuriating. The narrator was distracting, using entirely the wrong tone for the serious topic. What disappointed you about Sergeant Stubby? Amazing historical story ruined by campy narration
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