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A rollicking, globe trotting adventure with a twist a four legged heroine you won t soon forgetElsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that her long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, and chatting with her best friend, Mallory One night, Elsie and Mallory sneak out of their pasture but while Mallory is interested in flirting with the neighboring bulls, Elsie finds herself drawn to the farmhouse Through the window, she sees the farmer s family gathered around a bright Box God and what the Box God reveals about something called an industrial meat farm shakes Elsie s understanding of her world to its core.There s only one solution escape to a better, safer world And so a motley crew is formed Elsie Jerry excuse me, Shalom a cranky, Torah reading pig who s recently converted to Judaism and Tom, a suave in his own mind, at least turkey who can t fly, but who can work an iPhone with his beak Toting stolen passports and slapdash human disguises, they head for the airport.Elsie is our wise cracking, pop culture reference dropping, slyly witty narrator Tom who does eventually learn to fly sort of dispenses psychiatric advice in a fake German accent and Shalom, rejected by his adopted people in Jerusalem, ends up unexpectedly uniting Israelis and Palestinians David Duchovny s charismatic creatures point the way toward a mutual understanding and acceptance that the world desperately needs. Free Download Kindle ePUB Holy Cow Author David Duchovny – kino-fada.fr If by any chance you fancy a novel of total hilarious insanity with a touch of emotional resonance and a unique twist then Holy Cow is absolutely the book for you.Completely crazy yes Fun Absolutely Eminently readable and definitely unexpected Yes again I loved it, read it fast it is not a long book and thoroughly fell in love with Elsie, Shalom and co ESPECIALLY Tom the Turkey who is certainly farintelligent than most humans I know including myself.David ...Did not finish could not finish Clever premise, horrible delivery Unless you want to read a book narrated by a cow who peppers her speech with every annoying of the moment turn of phrase cray cray , for example , pop culture reference, and lots of wait til you see what happens next and did you s...This is the most bonkers book you may ever read My advice is to leave all sense of reality at the title page and just enjoy the ride And what a ride it is A cow escapes her paddock one day and instead of flirting with the bulls, she goes up to the farm house There she learns the truth, that humans eat cows Suddenly she realises where her mother wentThis realisation makes the cow see she needs to escape She learns of India, where cows are sacred, and she makes a plan to go there A pig a This is the most bonkers book you may ever read My advice is to leave all sense of reality at the title page and just enjoy the ride And what a ride it is A cow escapes her paddock one day and instead of flirting with the bulls, she goes up to the farm house There she learns the truth, that humans eat cows Suddenly she realises where her mother wentThis realisation makes the cow see she needs to escape She learns of India, where cows are sacred, and she makes a plan to go there A pig and turkey also learn of...Holy Cow David Duchovny Beauty, Books and Babble Find out about winning a copy of this book at the end of my reviewI would like to start with a massive thank you to Headline Publishing who sent me this book via Bookbridgr in exchange for an honest review I gave this book a nice, meaty 4 starsHoly Cow follows the story of Elsie Bovary, who starts the tale as an ordinary, happy cow who spends her days being milked, eating grass, and chatting with her BFF However, everything chang Holy Cow David Duchovny Beauty, Books and Babble Find out about winning a copy of this book at the end of my reviewI would like t...Well I am not sure what to say How about what a crock of mixed animal manure I honestly disliked everything about David Duchovny s writing style human beings should not go round saying things like omg babes you are totes cray cray let alone animals It was badly edited drivel Whats sad is there was the spark, the potential for an interesting debate on mass farming and how detrimental it is to the environment, to us and of course to other species But what was trundled out waslike Well I am not sure what to say How about what a crock of mixed animal manure I honestly disliked everything about David Duchovny s writing style human beings should not go round saying things like omg babes you are totes ...This was not good The ridiculous plot I could live with, but what I could NOT live with were the annoying ranty parts about animal rights and human politics and religion And even worse, the non stop barrage of topical and not so topical pop c...Ok I like cows and I like David Duchovny Therefore, I felt that a book about a cow by David Duchovny would be right up my street I have to say, having now read the book, I am a little nonplussed.For me, there are two ways that you can take this book One as a serious satire highlighting the injustices in our world and the interspecies prejudices that animals face an allegory for racism or you can read it a second way The second reading of the book would indicate to me that David Duchovny Ok I like cows and I like David Duchovny Therefore, I felt that a book about a cow by David Duchovny would be right up my street I have to say, having now read the book, I am a little nonplussed.For me, there are two ways that you can take this book One as a serious satire highlighting the injustices in our world and ...Nothingappropriate could have happened to me than to read Holy Cow by David Duchovny in a holiday time Christmas and New Year are holidays when we remember our loved ones, everyone who has in any good way influenced us during the year or even a few years before.But it is also a time when we easily forget those outside our field of vision, those we subconsciously push out of their existence The hidden faces of holidays.A happy cow Elise Bovary, a grumpy pig Shalom and a suave turkey Tom a Nothingappropriate could have happened to me than to read Holy Cow by David Duchovny in a holiday time Christmas and New Year are holidays when we remember our loved ones, everyone who has in any good way influenced us during the year or even a few years before.But it is also a time when we easily forget those outside our field of vision, those we subconsciously push out of their existence The hidden faces of holidays.A happy cow Elise Bovary, a grumpy pig Shalom and a suave turkey Tom are the hidden faces of our holidays but true and hilariously funny characters of Duchovny s novel Yes, David Duchovny also knows to write beside being a great actor It is a story that makes us laugh and touches the emotional part of our brain, a story that takes us in the spirit of its predecessors Charlotte s Web and Animal Farm on an exciting journey from the United States all across the world to Turkey, Israel and finally India, when our three adorable protagonists escape from a farm to find...If Pixar made films for adults, then Holy Cow would definitely be a contender I am sure this children s story for adults was written with a screenplay in mind, certainly our narrator Elsie the Cow is determined that one day her story will make the big screen, heck she is already writing a book about her exploits and is constantly giving helpful hints as asides to a future director Not to mention her pop culture references which she inserts because her editor thinks they would appeal to adult If Pixar made films for adults, then Holy Cow would definitely be a contender I am sure this children s story for adults was written with a screenplay in mind, certainly our narrator Elsie the Cow is determined that one day her story will make the big screen, heck she is already writing a book about her exploits and is constantly giving helpful hints as asides to a future director Not to mention her pop culture references which she inserts because her editor thinks they would appeal to adults reading the story to their children.Elsie has an idyllic life, chewing the cud, being milked, sleeping and gossiping until the day she gets a glimpse of what the future holds in store for her No way is Elsie going to enter the food chain and she makes her escape plans.It is a ver...not 100% sure I know quite what I have just read a deeply bizarre take on Mankind s interaction with each other and with the natural world Or simply a Dairy tale Confused.com

Holy Cow
  • English
  • 26 March 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 206 pages
  • 0374172072
  • David Duchovny
  • Holy Cow