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Pug Hill
List Price: $14.00
Amazon Price: $4.98
Average Customer Rating:  (31 reviews)
Editorial Review: For Hope McNeill, pugs are love, unconditional friendship, happiness, and freedom. She doesn't have one of her own (busy life, tiny apartment), but she does have Pug Hill in Central Park, where pugs (and their owners) from all over New York convene.
She also has a crush on one of her co-workers, a flailing romantic relationship, and an unspeakable fear of public speaking. Then Hope's father calls with an assignment: to make a speech at her parents' anniversary party. Frantic, she signs up for a public speaking class, but can't help wondering-will it transform her into an eloquent orator? Maybe some fears are so big that even all the pugs in the world might not be enough to assuage them.
Customer Reviews:
0 of 0 found this review helpful:
 Chick book for dog lovers, 2008-05-04
Very enjoyable read for a leisurely afternoon. Not earthshaking in content, but my guess is that it wasn't intended to be so. Smiled often while reading this book, with my dog (not a pug) curled up beside me.
0 of 0 found this review helpful:
 Pug Hill Review, 2008-01-28
I loved this book SO much. I love how this author includes dogs in all her books, and that she always does a wonderful job of expressing their "personalities."
In this story, the narrator has an overwhelming fear of public speaking and a great love of dogs. The scenes in the public speaking class are laugh-out-loud funny and some of the later scenes involving the family dogs are so touching. This character was quirky and far from perfect and watching her grow and take stock of her life was satisfying. A wonderful ending that will have you cheering with the last page! And tearing up too.
Highly recommended to ALL dog lovers, and lovers of great, uplifting endings.
2 of 4 found this review helpful:
 90% NOT ABOUT PUGS!!!, 2007-12-10
I am a huge pug lover, so naturally this book seemed like a good read. WRONG!!! To get straight to the point--It seems that the author used the title and cover to mislead people into believing that the story revolves around pugs. It does NOT. This is a story about a woman and certain aspects of her life with pugs just thrown in there.
As I was reading, I got into the woman's story, but then out of nowhere, pugs are mentioned and it threw me completely off balance. I even said out loud, "What the heck do pugs have to do with that?" As I said, it seems like the author wrote a story, but to sell it, she added pug things every now and then.
3 of 5 found this review helpful:
 Snooooooore, 2007-10-31
**Plot spoilers below**
I am a huge fan of chick lit. Knowing this, a friend gave me this book after she was done with it. The premise looked like something I could relate to. Woman in her early 30s, single, loves dogs - sounds great. The reviews said it was funny, too. Guess I should know better than to trust the reviews. There wasn't anything funny about it. I don't think I even smiled once.
There was no plot to this book. Just this woman (Hope) moaning about everything that is wrong in her life and overthinking everything to the point of mind-numbing boredom. Yes, I get that it was part of the plot to have her over-analyze and pre-judge everyone and everything so we can see her start to understand in the end that she needs to just live in the moment and love people for who they are. I get it. But by the time the book ended, I didn't care what lessons she learned. I wanted to reach through the pages and throttle her for being such a weak, wishy-washy ninny. I was thankful the book was over.
She never confronts anyone about the way they treat her. Boyfriends, mother, sister. Those issues are never resolved. They just all dance around happily at a party and Hope "let's go" of her problems with all of them. Give me a break. If it were that easy, psychologists would be out of work.
The ending was way too pat. It was annoying. Mr. Wonderful finally arrives and even though Hope has done nothing concrete to solve her issues, he will rescue her and make it all better.
And the other thing that really bugged me about this book is that Hope kept finding it necessary to bash Republicans. Apparently, all Republicans are wealthy, belong to country clubs and have no compassion for others. There's a generalization for you! In fact, towards the end Hope decides that the reason all of her relationshps have failed is because she tends to date Republican men and what she really needs is a Democrat. Huh? So while we are lead to believe that the lesson of the book is Hope learns to not pre-judge people and put them in little labeled boxes, in the end, she's judging people for being Republicans. It left me with the feeling that Hope really didn't learn anything at all and I just wasted several hours of my life on a close-minded, whiny little snot who can only see life as it relates to herself.
Yeah, that's groundbreaking lit!!!
1 of 1 found this review helpful:
Wonderful book!!!, 2007-08-23
I have spent the last three hours reading this book...and I feel great! Not only could I identify with the main character/narrator...but I totally understand and agree with the pug and other dog feelings in the book. My pug, Samson, makes me feel the way the pugs on Pug Hill make Hope feel. Nothing is ever so bad that a dog can't make you feel better!!
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