- Hardcover
- Publisher: Random House Value Publishing (May 11 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0517394499
- ISBN-13: 978-0517394496
- Shipping Weight: 163 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
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Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie, DANCES WITH WOLVES.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Dances with Wolves,
By Joe Zika "Khemprof" (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dances with Wolves (Mass Market Paperback)
Dances with Wolves written by Michael Blake is a well told story about a man searching for inner peace and his choices in life after the savage Civil War. A man changed forever by war and later a man who embarks upon an adventure sure to change his life as he is faced with one of the greatest decisions as to loyalty.Lieutenant John Dunbar is sent to the outer regions, an abandoned army post out in the middle of nowhere, where only the Comanche are company and his survival is in peril. Sooner or later Dunbar must make contact with the Indian camp or he will surely perish. This is a story about a man and survival... a dangerous adventure that will lead Dunbar to make a choice for the rest of his life. Dunbar is weary, lonely, and after a raid of his post, by the Comanche... hungry. With only a lone wolf for company he makes a decision that will change his future and finds love and acceptance. But Dunbar's past is soon to come back to haunt him as the army finally comes around, but Dunbar is living with the Comanche. Now, faced with arrest, the Comanche rescue him and he comes to the decision that he must leave or he will bring an end to life for the Comanche. A man must give up his past in order to have a future, a future that is uncertain, but, nevertheless a future he could never have otherwise. This is truly a touching tale told well, easily readable and gripping.
4.0 out of 5 stars
More than fun,
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This review is from: Dances with Wolves (Mass Market Paperback)
"Dances with Wolves" is a lot of fun, and a lot more. It's an intelligently structured adventure drama that's hard to put down, and a fascinating study in cross-cultural communication. Like much of the "noble savage" literature of the past, the story tends to idealize rather than humanize Native American culture. True, it does it so skillfully that we tend to believe we are among real people. But the sheer brutality with which the U.S. Army is depicted, in contrast with the totally benign Native Americans, smacks of caricature. We may deplore the actions of the U.S. government against the country's original inhabitants, but presenting every individual U.S. soldier as a vicious animal and every individual Comanche as a friendly candidate for sainthood overstates the case. The best part of the book is the long development of the relationship between John Dunbar and the Comanche, told with skill and wit. After this phase, Dunbar emerges as rather too much of a hero to be believed, but the book is still highly entertaining.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic to the End!!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dances with Wolves (Mass Market Paperback)
Dances with Wolves is an excellent book for readers who would like to understand more about the ways of indain life. I saw the movie years ago, but it was nothing compared to the book. The book can describe the emotions of the characters that the movie can not capture. Dances with Wolves is about a lieutenant name John Dunbar, who was posted to the abandon Fort Sedgwick by a drunken general. There he lives alone only accompanied by his horse Cisco and a old wolf he named Two Socks waiting for more soilders who will never come. Lieutentant Dunbar then found out there are Comanche Indains nearby and starts to attempt to make contact with them. After gaining their trust, he is favored by all the Comache Indians. Even though he is accepted in the Comanche tribe, could he give up his soilder ways and live the rest of his life in the wild prairie.That is something you'll have to read the book in order to find out. If you're the type of person who is intrested in reading books about the old west then I suggest you read this one.
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