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Summary: okay if you're really into wolves...
Review: Not a bad book,but not very good if you are a fan of Apocalypse fiction.The book concentrates on one man's journey from Michigan to Montana,in a Dark Ages USA after a World Financial Collapse (which isn't really explained).It is well written,but the book doesn't really go anywhere.The hero avoids any contact with people on his journey,so there is very little action or interaction.He hooks up with a wolf as a travelling companion,and from then on the book seems to become a study of wolf behavior.I'd recommend it only if you are into wolves or really into survival stories.
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Summary: A well-written novel, with what's good and what's bad in SF
Review: Science fiction is known for stories long on idea or action, and short on character. Wolf and Iron stands as a fine example of both the good and the bad.
The good: A well-written post-apocalyptic story, told with a thoughtful, measured pace, exploring the mind of a man and a wolf as they adjust to each other and to the new low-tech reality. The man learns the ways of the blacksmith, the wolf to trust and work with his human companion. The incidents which bond them are inventive; obviously the author has put considerable thought and study into the psychology of wolves, and the realities of laboring over an anvil and forge. The prose is stately and often lyrical.
The bad: A man-woman relationship so badly sketched the reader wonders whether the author has ever seen a woman. She gives birth to their child after the couple has been literally snowed in alone together together for an entire winter, yet they have never even discussed what to name their child. It hasn't occurred to the hero that their child would need one! After the birth the name is selected with the exchange of precicely two sentences. The author is preoccupied with the (well-handled) relationship of man and wolf; man and woman are purely secondary, and are treated so. The woman's previous experiences as a captive and slave are passed over as too painful (read: too uninteresting to the author) to be related.
The total: A satisfying read, imaginative in what it does well; and in what it does poorly, illustrative of a common SF fault.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This was the best book I've read in a long time. It was full of suspense and interesting characters. It was so good I couldn't put it down. I read it all in one sitting, and have read it 4 times since I purchased it.
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Summary: Excellent Post-Apocalypse Novel
Review: This was the first Gordon Dickson book I ever read, and it has made me a fan. The book traces a man on a trek across country after a collapse of civilization. In the process, he makes friends with a tamed wolf, and meets up with a man and his daughter who saw the disaster coming and prepared for it by establishing a trade route. They travel a large loop through the mid-section of the country in a wagon, buying, selling and trading with the small pockets of surviving humanity. It is a really thick book, but our whole family read it and all of us loved it!
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Summary: Excellent Post-Apocalypse Novel
Review: This was the first Gordon Dickson book I ever read, and it has made me a fan. The book traces a man on a trek across country after a collapse of civilization. In the process, he makes friends with a tamed wolf, and meets up with a man and his daughter who saw the disaster coming and prepared for it by establishing a trade route. They travel a large loop through the mid-section of the country in a wagon, buying, selling and trading with the small pockets of surviving humanity. It is a really thick book, but our whole family read it and all of us loved it!
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Summary: Best book I have ever read. Have read too many times.
Review: Well reading the other reviews you can see that the book is an enjoyable one to say the least. I agree that Jeebee's realationship with Merry could have been more polished. On the other hand I still marvel at Mr. Dickensons ability to explore the smallest idea and make it iteresting. I have never in my life wondered at how to make a common nail and even if I did where I would get the materials to do so.
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