Out on a Leash: Exploring the Nature of Reality and Love

Shirley MacLaine is one of my favorite authors, and this book is excellently written. I really liked learning about her special dog Terry and how she loved their life together. Anyone who has had the pleasure of sharing life with an amazing dog or cat would understand.How Shirley handled Terry's passing is helpful. She is a spritual person, so reading her perspective is helpful.

Very sweet and funny book! I love the way the book goes back and forth between MacLaine and Terry (her dog). She in true MacLaine style goes deep into the unknown and the "what if's" about life. The detail she gives to the surroundings makes you feel like you're right there with them going along with them on movie sets and mountains and walks. Such a great book and I'll be reading it many times over throughout the years. MacLaine ALWAYS entertains while making you think and helps you keep your mind open! Thank you Miss Shirley MacLaine!

Great book about life death and the love of a "forever " dog. Dogs never die they remain with us!

Love this book. I feel the bond between Shirley and her rat terrier, Terry......was one of the best LOVE STORIES I have ever read.My dogs have given me much the same kind of love. Humans and canines ....our souls respond to pure and simple LOVE. ❤

I've decided to write a review after perusing all the ones already written, and after reading the book myself. I want any future potential buyer to know what's what. Disregard all those comments that say Shirley MacLaine has lost it, is fuzzy-minded or too sentimental. While "Out On a Limb" remains Shirley's best book so far, this one is clear-headed as can be and deals with a different subject, a magical animal. What those other comments indicate is the readers' lack of a sense of humor.You know some people are so darn literal, right? In truth, there are wonderful insights and wisdoms throughout the book. If you don't like animals, or if you think a dog is a dog is a dog, then you probably won't relate that well to the book, unless you recognize truth when you see it. This experience Shirley is having with a canine is rare. Her dog, Terry. is not your father's four-legged pal or your mother's cutsy, cuddly snookums. It's not about 90% of what most of us have experienced with a family dog or an adorable, sweet, or smart dog or cat that we loved and remember fondly. No, this is that rare 10% of animals that come into one's life that transcend the ordinary pooch or pussy. You have to experience it to understand it.Shirley is NOT ga-ga in her dotage over a pet! She has been gifted with one of these transcendent animals and she is right: they do speak to their humans in many ways, and they love you like no man or woman has ever loved you (unless you're very, very lucky) before. I'm not talking about devotion. That's ordinary, expected. I'm talking about the real thing: unconditional love. We use that expression too much these days and most of us are lying about it. Frankly, we don't know what we're talking about. It's something we want to do, something we want to get, but we seldom come close. When we do, it's unforgettable whether it happens with man, woman or beast. It's a spiritual experience to be treasured and Shirley is one lucky lady.

Shirkley McClaine never surprises me with her books. This book, OUT ON A LEASH" is really different in format. She writes a chapter, then TERRY, herterrier "writes a chapter on her view book of life and spiritualism," and living with Shirley. Well, you know Terry didn't really write it, but I really enjoyed the book, which was a fast two day read for me. If you enjoy Shirley McClaine as an actress and writer, buy the book, please. It is truly different, and offers view points on life and living from a dog's point of view. Thanks!

Love her books! Interesting reader. I have read all of her books. Great story teller and writer of truth!

Bought for wife, she hasn't read it yet....

This is an unusual book - but then Shirley (thankfully) not a "usual" sort of person, and we benefit from that by reading her unique viewpoint on our world and it's issues.This book is written from the viewpoint of her very-loved dog, and contains some profound truths and a lot for us to think about, not least that animals are knowing, intelligent creatures in their own right, and a valuable part of our learning and lives. You may give up meat, if you read this book! I first read it years ago - and though I finished it(and was interested) I hadn't reached the stage yet where it really grabbed me. Now, going through a "MacLaine" stage when most of her stuff is difficult to get, I'm getting it again.It doesn't cost much, now - so what excuse have you for not giving it a try?

If you enjoy Shierly Machlians writing as I do and are a dog lover then you must read this lovely book! * I loved it <3

a good read.

Book arrived in a dirty state. As if it had been sitting on a shelve and wiped with a cloth. Wasn’t impressed

I like the authors humour and honest look at what life is and her counter look at animals and all things natural as being as important as humans