As a dog, Sirius cannot access his full luminary self – he wants to run around and sniff things and be a dog, and he has to fight these impulses and focus fiercely on locating the Zoi, the exact nature of which he struggles to remember. I own the entire Dalemark Quartet, which I like significantly less than Dogsbody (or Luke or even maybe Time City, now that I think about it.) Dogsbody, it’s fun and interesting, and it’s from the perspective of a dog without being cutesy. Really I just don’t know why I don’t own it.

If, during his dog life span, he can retrieve the Zoi, he will be reinstated if not, he will die as a dog. As punishment, he is placed in the body of a dog on Earth. See, the being that establishes Sirius, the Dog Star, is convicted of having killed another luminary with his Zoi, an immensely powerful object that has now fallen to Earth and been lost. I should really check it out of the library again.ĭogsbody is great. I.e., the book that apparently gave Neil Gaiman the germ of the idea for American Gods – it’s out of print and difficult to obtain, and I have not yet used it enough times to love it enough to take the time to bother finding it used. Because I have only started liking it recently, and I have not definitely settled down to Like It from Dislike It.ģ.

I have read it over and over, and I have never managed to like it.Ģ. Written in 1981, right before Diana Wynne Jones went on her crazy winning streak made out of amazing brilliance and win, between 19, this is my very least by a lot favorite of Diana Wynne Jones’s books.

There are only a very few books by Diana Wynne Jones that I don’t own, and here they are and this is why:ġ.

Dogsbody by diana wynne jones