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A dying Rumbo tells Fluke that the black-and-white snapshot of a man in a sailor suit on Bert's wall was him and Bert was his brother and that he wishes to smell the sea again, suggesting that he died in the line of duty. What if waves after waves of unexplainable emotions and hazy memories drive your little body towards an unknown goal, only to find that sometimes even your most trusted memories can be warped and distorted beyond truth?

Fluke is the moving story of a dog with the memories of a human, with the signature twisting plot Master of Horror James Herbert is famed for. Se lee muy rápido ya que Fluke, el protagonista, vivirá abundantes aventuras, tanto buenas como malas, que no dará tregua al lector. No mention of sex, and no real horror elements, it follows the life of a young dog, who is plagued by dreams of being a man, and, determining that he was once a man in a previous life, that he had been murdered and decides to track down his human family to protect them.Instead, it is a beautiful story about the adventures of a dog told in first-person by that dog who was once a man. With a scary black dog, with a man-shaped shadow, I was certain it was a scary book, but it turns out, that despite its supernatural themes, Fluke is actually quite different from other James Herbert novels. But it is during this period that Fluke begins to have dreams or memories of a previous life as a human; as a husband and a father. He wrote six more bestselling novels in the 1990s and three more since: Once, Nobody True and The Secret of Crickley Hall.

When you read the blurb of this book, the plot may seem template based on the surface, but the fluency and the make-believe manner, in which he describes the common sights, sounds and smells that surround us humans re-scaled from the sensory viewpoint of the canine is one of strengths of the book. A chilling story of madness and murder, The Fog is a classic horror novel from James Herbert, author of The Rats. But this is a fantasy in which he seamlessly steps into the paws of Fluke, the puppy that grows into a dog. Meeting Rumbo, their subsequent friendship and time spent together, builds further tight bonds with the reader from early on.

I first read this as a young teenager, but I only had the vaguest of recollections of it so it was love to revisit. This is a great read for everyone, oh and if you think its like the movie, its not, this is 100 times better than hollywood.

With his own emotional attachments to the story (with both the characters of Fluke and Rumbo) Herbert ends the novel with a monumentally heart-warming and beautifully concluding ending. As he grow some of these recollections become more vivid and he goes looking for the life he left behind that he cannot quite remember. To say I was hooked by the reading the first page is an understatement - I read the first page twice to appreciate the utterly captivating writing style. Events mean that Fluke has to leave the scrap-metal yard and the urge to find out about his previous life becomes overpowering so he tries to find the town where he used to live, however, he only has vague memories of his life as a human. I’ve been amazed at and chuckled over the neuroses in the animal world: I’ve met a pig who thought he was a horse; a cow who stuttered; a bull who was bullied by a shrew he shared a field with; a duckling who thought he was ugly (and he was); a goat who thought he was Jesus; a woodpigeon who was afraid of flying (he preferred to walk everywhere); a toad who could croak Shakespeare sonnets (and little else); an adder who kept trying to stand up; a fox who was vegetarian; and a grouse who never stopped.

It was story I knew that people would love: the tale of the shy, clever, autistic boy and how he met David Bowie, who was kind to him, and as magical as anyone could hope for. Fluke was released on VHS on November 21, 1995 and LaserDisc on November 28, 1995 by MGM/UA Home Video in North America (which was presented in the theatrical version and available exclusively through Warner Home Video). From the master of British Horror, James Herbert, Fluke is the story of comes a story about a dog driven by an impulse he can't ignore.

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