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	• Duncton Wood William Horwood Ballantine Books, 1981 average customer review:based on 58 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Get to know yourself.....

Without submitting to a sappy, cliche-like review, I would like to voice a review that will possibly encourage everyone to read this fantastic novel. Adventure for the venturesome, romance for the hopeless, encouragement for the despairing, and overall, wisdom for the ignorant....you learn how to know yourself through this novel. With all the elements a fantasy novel possesses, Duncton Wood offers more. If you are a male, undoubtedly you will place yourself in the "paws" of Bracken, the heroic mole that bears more human-like strenghts and faults than any fictional character I have read about, human or not. The ladies will, with certainty, get lost in the Rebecca's (the mole heroine) world as she eminates every good and true quality everyone desires.

Haywood has eloquent prose ornamented with a splendid vocabulary, but he has an even more keener understanding of the human condition. Get the book, read it and love it.

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Everyone should read this profound bood!

As all the other reviews stated, this book changed my life. I have read all six in the series and each is as good as the next. I still have them all (gifts from friends overseas) and will read them again as soon as I can. I read Duncton Wood many years ago and still can picture the images in my mind that it conjured up! What an incredible story! Last I heard, William Horwood, was doing talks in England. Try and find the other books. If the first caught all your attention, the others will too.

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I read this when I was ten

Hi. I'm a 16 year old high school sophomore. I read the Duncton Chronicles for the first time when I was ten and my family found them at a yard sale in Portugal. WHY anyone in their right minds would want to SELL this fabulous book is beyond me, and I feel the same way about Duncton Quest and Duncton Found. These books changed my life, and even at ten I was able to appreciate their mysterious beauty. IT IS A DISGRACE that these books aren't more of a success in the US. I thank God that I was fortunate enough to discover them.

Oh, about that 1 star review? Ever notice how trolls can't spell and have terrible grammer? (Hee hee)

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Duncton Wood

Moles, sex, violence, romance, religion. What more could you ask for in a novel ? Read the rest of the series too.

Reasonably speaking...

I must admit, I hesitate in writing a review because I won't be jumping on any 'It changed my life' sort of bandwagon. I generally have a distaste for the fantasty genre, especially in recent years. I will, however, grant that this is a five star novel. Without question, it ought to be in print. Apparently, there's a pseudo-cultish following around the novel and the author. For those of you who might be scared off by this, don't be. I picked up Duncton Wood for a fun summer read last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. I read it in two sittings... Horwood is a tremendously talented storyteller. His style is immensely appealing and very appropriate for a 'fun' read. What distinguishes the novel is that, while Horwood is a better storyteller than any of the mass-market successes out there these days (Clancy, Grisham, Rice, etc. simply don't compare), the content is also substantial enough to provide real fodder for thought. Horwood is a strong enough writer to move the novel out of the run-of-the-mill Manachean fantasy/adventure storylines and provide some actual philosophical substance. In essence, if you'd like to enjoy yourself and be immersed in the world of a talented storyteller, without having your intelligence or literary sensibilities insulted at the same time, you'll enjoy Horwood. A very worthy novel, earning all five stars, and deserving of a good-quality reprint.

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