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Summary: Beautiful book worth reading.
Review: My only regret is that the book wasn't longer. Every page is full of descriptive prose and fascinating narrative. You will feel like you're there with the author, either on the boat, hiking in the wilderness, or examining the joys and sorrows of friendships gained and lost.
What a well-written book!
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Summary: Beautiful book worth reading.
Review: My only regret is that the book wasn't longer. Every page is full of descriptive prose and fascinating narrative. You will feel like you're there with the author, either on the boat, hiking in the wilderness, or examining the joys and sorrows of friendships gained and lost.
What a well-written book!
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Summary: A Beautiful Book
Review: The Blue Bear is a fantastic read! If you are at all interested in Alaska, nature, wildlife or friendship I am certain you will love this book.
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Summary: The Blue Bear--or The Meaning of Life in a Nutshell!
Review: The Blue Bear is one of the best and most concise expressions of the meaning of life that I have ever read since Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. Especially Schooler's experience with the Kingfisher and the crows. It's a beautiful story about love and friendships between man and nature, man and himself, and man and God, however one envisions Him. I could not put the book down once I started to read it. Schooler's quotes from Michio's book seemed to hold a very personal message for me.
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Summary: A Great Trip to Southeast Alaska
Review: The librarian said that she thought I might like this book because it was about bears. She was totally correct but not just because it was about bears. It is like spending years in Alaska with a knowledgable friend. Eye opening in so many ways. Best book on Alaska since "Coming into the Country".
Mr Schooler has included everything he knows into this book and all is very interesting. Highly reccomend it.
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Summary: It made me cry
Review: This book had more impact on me than anything I've read in the past few years. I've never especially wanted to see Alaska (too cold) and never appreciated it as a special place, but Lynn Schooler's writing pulled me in to the land and its enchanting forms of life and interesting residents. I kept thinking how brave he was to write as he did about his demons and pains and the healing he painfully found, as elusive for most of us as the Blue Bear itself. I taught classic English literature for years, and I know powerful, gripping language when I see it. This is the real thing. If I could write to Schooler, I'd tell him how moving his book was. Read it right away, and slowly.
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Summary: The Blue Bear
Review: This book is true literature. The authors discriptions are very visual. I could not put the book down. It is more than just an adventure book. It is a story of true intimacy,personal discovery and tragedy. Schooler opens himself to the reader as if he is sharing his personal intermost secrets to his closest friend. It changed my life.
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Summary: Tribute to Michio
Review: This is a beautiful book. Every personal and public library would be enriched by a copy. I wish I could buy 1000 copies and donate them myself. The story is a deeply-felt, tragic tribute to the universal themes embodied by a single man, Japanese photographer Michio Hoshino, but more particularly, by a powerful friendship. The author explores the significance of human connection in all its painful and exhilarating manifestations. His landscape is not only the Alaskan frontier, but also the rifts, chasms, towers and summits of his own life. His treatment of both geographies is intense, humble, deft and intimate. This is a story of survival and triumph that is timeless and applicable to the life experience of everyone. This is a book of a lifetime that can change you for the better... if you let it.
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Summary: I couldn't put it down!
Review: This is a book more than worth the reading.
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Summary: As good as being there!
Review: This story moved me like few others. I felt as if I were hurting, then healing right along with the author, all the while tramping thru the rain drenched forrests. I want to see that blue bear so bad I may pack up and go look for it myself.
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