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Summary: Winterdance
Review: This book should not be read on an airplane. Your laughing loudly will disrupt others around you. This is one of the funniest books I've read. I've given numberous copies to friends and realized I don't have one of my own. Hence, my order.
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Summary: Wow! :D
Review: Best book I've ever read about the Iditarod or dog sledding in general.
Great Buy, It'll be in your heart for years to come.
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Summary: R Rated for Language
Review: While I agree with other reviewers that this is a fun, interesting book, I disagree that it is suitable for children. There is extensive profanity used in this book. Not just a cuss word here and there, but repeated use of the most foul words. Not for anyone under 17.
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Summary: If Bill Bryson ran dogs...
Review: This book was just fun. If you love dogs or the outdoors, so much the better. The author does an amazing job of simply laughing at himself through his journey to race the Iditarod. How many of us have been journeys or adventures just like he did where we knew very little and seemed to experience mistake after mistake -- until the knowledge was forced into us from the pain of the mistakes.All is conveyed with a light-heartedness that keeps you laughing the entire time. I can picture the entire scenes of him being dragged by the dogs eager to go on... Great, fun book.
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Summary: Good intro to the Iditarod
Review: This is a good book--a fast read that introduces you to the grueling Iditarod, and keeps you interested from the first page to the last. I was disappointed, however, in the complete lack of background information about the author or what lead him to attempt such a seemingly impossible feat. I read a lot of nature-adventure true stories, and part of what brings depth and interest to a story is learning about what has motivated a person to act. You learn nothing about Paulson, except that he lived in MN and bought dogs and tied them to a sled. His wife is barely mentioned in passing--he devotes more energy to describing the people in his hallucinations--and you don't learn until near the end that he has a child. His viewpoint is so narrow and self-focused, that he also leaves out a lot of details you'd want to know about the race itself. His tale reads as a series of short vignettes rather than a travel journal. I am online now to buy a book by someone else who has run the Iditarod to help round out the story.
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Summary: Winterdance
Review: I wasn't real sure about this book when I took it out of the library. I didn't know what an Iditarod was, and wasn't sure I cared to know. However, from the first few pages on, I couldn't put the book down. I like dogs, but I wouldn't consider myself a dog lover. However, after reading this book, I came away with a different view of animals, especially dogs, and the magnitude of training for this big race. Gary takes the reader from the time he decides to sell everything he and his family own, and move to Minnesota to live off the land, by running traplines, and hunting his own food, and to train dogs for the Iditarod race. The reader is taken on a great adventure from the time he begins training the dogs to the race itself. He describes his adventures with such humor and detail, that I found myself laughing out loud on several occasions, and actually there were times when I felt as though I was on the sled with him, taking the ride of my life. Many times I believe I felt his pain as he describes slamming into trees, being dragged on his face by the dogs for miles, and skunked six times in one night. This is truly a good book, and I definitely will pick up another book by Gary Paulsen to read soon in my lesure time. I highly recommend this book fo all to read.
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Summary: someone
Review: It was a very good book, and the storyline was great. I really enjoyed it and I think anyone who owns a racing/pulling dog should also own this book so they can have a laugh. The best part in reading this book was remembering the fact that it is a true story.
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Summary: Not for the young readers of Dogsong
Review: Winterdance is may not be ideal for untenured teachers whose students love Paulsen's YA fiction. This is not fiction; this is about Paulsen running the Iditarod. It has some language and situations every teacher might not be comfortable having on their shelves at school. That word of warning said, it's a *great* book. Also, if you live where it gets cold, don't read this book in winter, you will really feel the cold!!!
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Summary: Winterdance
Review: I loved this book. I am a teen and I read it the first time when I was about twelve or so, and I loved it then too. The story follows Gary Paulsen in his endeavor to train for, and run the Iditarod. Some parts of the book are uproariously funny, like in the very beginning of the race where they get lost in downtown Anchorage. Paulsen's attempts at stopping a sled being pulled by several pumped up dogs is also worth a few good laughs, like when he tried to stop the sled by catching a snow-hook on the bumper of a car, ripping the bumber off.
My dad laughed until he cried when he read certain parts of "Winterdance".
Trevor
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Summary: My favorite book!
Review: What a wild rollercoaster ride through the Alaskan wilderness! I've re-read this book countless times and everyone I've loaned it to has loved it. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up.. you won't be sorry.....
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