First Quarter Outside Reading Book Review

Puppy Chow is better than Prozac by Bruce Goldstein. Da Capo Press, 2008
Genre: Autobiography/Fiction

Puppy Chow is better than Prozac is an autobiography about Bruce Goldstein (author). Bruce at first is a man who has a few friends, but isn't a people person. He recently had broken up with his first love and his life just went down hill from there. He tried suicide and his therapist put him on medicine, but he hated medicine so he wasn't interested. So he and his buddies went to THE BLACK DOG store and he decided he wanted a dog after seeing all the dog things. Bruce then bought Black Labrador in the middle of Hurricane Bertha, and figured it was the best decision he's made. The name Bruce had named the dog was Ozzy because of Ozzy Osborne (Prince of Darkness). He would walk Ozzy on the streets of New York everyday. Woman started to come up to him about the Ozzy, but then once Bruce told them how Ozzy basically saved his life from suicide and such, they started to notice Bruce, not Ozzy. Then one day Bruce met Brooke, and they dated for several years. Then finally they had gotten married. In the end Bruce's life started to turn around.

"An uproarious and yet tender story of how a charming pup tansformed the life of a man battling depression," says Editor-in-Chief of The Bark, "It's a delightful read for dog lovers."

Bruce was a really depressed man. He was on lithium when he told himself he wouldn't go it anymore. He had also had a disease called Crohns disese. That's when you have poisonous gasses in my stomach. Since Bruce had been so depressed over the years, he only seemed to have his friends that kept him a live. But once he got Ozzy, everything changed. In the end he found someone to love once again.

I haven't read a book by Bruce Goldstein before, but I am interested in reading more. Also I haven't read a book before like this, so I can't really compare it to another book.

"Because everybody who has ever had a dog knows they do not last forever…He'll always be in my heart."

I really loved Bruce Goldstein's book, although, he has seemed to go through a tough life. I can relate to him because I went through a tough life with my father through the years. But I never seemed to be as depressed as him. He has truly effected me greatly though with the depression, loosing his first love, and have basically a split personality.