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Summary: LOVED THIS BOOK
Review: A totally gripping, thought provoking book. Loved it. Read "The Sheep Queen" by this author immediately after. "The Power of The Dog" will be a book that is routed through my entire family - a family of readers. I'm sure they will like the book as much as I. Between the two, "The Power of the Dog" meant more to me than "The Sheep Queen", but you decide! Both were excellent.
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Summary: LOVED THIS BOOK
Review: A totally gripping, thought provoking book. Loved it. Read "The Sheep Queen" by this author immediately after. "The Power of The Dog" will be a book that is routed through my entire family - a family of readers. I'm sure they will like the book as much as I. Between the two, "The Power of the Dog" meant more to me than "The Sheep Queen", but you decide! Both were excellent.
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Summary: LOVED THIS BOOK
Review: A totally gripping, thought provoking book. Loved it. Read "The Sheep Queen" by this author immediately after. "The Power of The Dog" will be a book that is routed through my entire family - a family of readers. I'm sure they will like the book as much as I. Between the two, "The Power of the Dog" meant more to me than "The Sheep Queen", but you decide! Both were excellent.
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Summary: A lost treasure rediscovered
Review: Every once in a while you stumble across a book that stays on your mind long after you finish the last page. This is the type of book you want to recommend to everyone, but instead, you only tell your close friends. When people ask "Have you read anything good lately?" You respond without hesitating "The Power of the Dog," but don't bother to describe the book. It is just that good.I rarely watch a movie twice, almost never read the same book over. This book is worthy of a second reading. I feel fortunate to stumble upon this incredible story by a genius author...
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Summary: Incredible!
Review: Every once in a while you stumble across a book that stays on your mind long after you finish the last page. This is the type of book you want to recommend to everyone, but instead, you only tell your close friends. When people ask "Have you read anything good lately?" You respond without hesitating "The Power of the Dog," but don't bother to describe the book. It is just that good. I rarely watch a movie twice, almost never read the same book over. This book is worthy of a second reading. I feel fortunate to stumble upon this incredible story by a genius author...
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Summary: a great and fantastic book
Review: I finished this book on 25 Oct 1989 and I willnever forget it. It is a real novel--ittells a story, it has a beginning, it develops, it has a searing ending. It is not riddled with obscenities, nor is it sex-saturaated. It tells the story of two rich Montana ranchowners, Phil and George Burbank. Phil is intelligent and cruel, expert and hate-filled toward what he disagrees with. George, his brother, is simple, slow-thinking--marries a widow whom Phil despisesand is cruel to. so she takes to drink. Her son, Peter, is the son of her first husband, a doctor who killed himself. The book is expertly written, and seems authentic to Montana ranch life. Savage was born in 1915 in Salt Lake City, spent his youth on a working ranch in Montana, was a U of Montana one year, graduated from Colby College in Maine. He taught at Vassar and Brandeis and in 1967 lived on the Maine coast. I think he is still alive--I first heard of him when I read about him and Louise Erdrcich in the LeMars library a couple of weeks ago. This book has been compelling and meaningful. I recommend it unreservedly.
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Summary: The Power of Tom Savage
Review: I first saw this book in the hands of a woman on my commuter bus. Since she seems to be a discriminating reader, I picked up a copy of it for myself. Most of my books I either give away or sell, but this is one I plan to keep and share.
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Summary: Five Stars are not Enough
Review: I first saw this book in the hands of a woman on my commuter bus. Since she seems to be a discriminating reader, I picked up a copy of it for myself. Most of my books I either give away or sell, but this is one I plan to keep and share.
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Summary: The Power of Tom Savage
Review: I read this novel when it first appeared and thought it was a work of art then. Some thirty-four years worth of reading and teaching literature since has not changed my opinion: This is a beautifully wrought study of the effects that unregenerate evil can have on passive, powerless good. Told from the perspective of most of its major characters, the novel doesn't lecture, but lets events play out in the cattle-ranching west of the 20's to their shocking, wickedly satisfying, conclusion. As I did thirty-four years ago, I'll be pressing this copy of Savage's powerful novel on everyone I know who loves a finely crafted story by a masterful writer.
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Summary: an amazing novel - an american classic
Review: I was able to borrow a copy of this book from a friend and was absoulutely engrossed in it. This is one of the finest short novels I have read. The internal alagory of a rope being braided slowly from start to finish applies equally as well to the writing in this book. I have no idea why this book is still out-of-print. If you are lucky enough to find a copy, grab it!
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