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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A life changing book, 17 Jan 2007

By	P. S. Dixon (Cheshire, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Duncton Wood (Hardcover)

I read the original Duncton wood when it came out and the subsequent books as they came out.

Nothing can prepare you for the depth, complexity, and pure emotional attachment of these books. Ok, for some people the characters being moles may be offputting .. I know that when ever I enthuse to friend about this series their eyes glaze over when I get to that part. But dont be put off, these are very deep, emotional and spiritual books about love, obsession, corruption and community. When you have read these, books about Hobbits and Goblins will seem silly and shallow!

William Horwoods style is quite unique, I have never read any other book where you are never quite sure whether a character you have started to really relate to and enjoy, will suddenly meet a grizzley end.

Horwood also has the ability to create some of the most evil characters ever imaginable... for those of you know .. Mandrake!! and yet you understood why they had become how they were, and felt sympathy and understanding for them ... a unique talent.

I would say that these are not for children, I read the first at 15, which is about right.

These books have a rare beauty and special quality about them that cannot be put into words ... if you want a quick read to get you into Horwood, buy his biography ' the boy with no shoes ' this documents his austere, troubled childhood and illustrates his relationships with various people, his mother ( shades of Mandrake!!) Grandmother (love of life and caring nature) Mr Bubbles ( at one with nature ).. it is very remaniscent of the style of Duncton and obviously a factor in its existence

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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BUY THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW!, 30 Mar 2002

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This is by far one of the best books i've read (the others being duncton quest and duncton found!). Duncton wood begins the trilogy brilliantly and sets the scene with a story of great fantasy and romance and laying the foundations fort the other two. i read this book and then immediately set about getting hold of the other 5. it is absolutely compulsive reading and impossible to put down and now i hae read the trilogy at least 3 times and it never ceases to amaze me! Buy this book NOW and then buy the other 5 to go with it!!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Over envious review by sour critic, 21 May 2009

By	Rwth of Cornovii (Birmingham UK) - See all my reviews

I think you have to read the two trilogies to get the full benefit of these books, but read the product description, and one might easily feel it was written by someone who can't write effectively himself. There are faults, but they are overstated in the description. I barely recognised it as the same book.

Rebecca is not over sweet, but she is not easy to describe. You have to have met and known really great people to be able to describe them. By that I mean the kind of person who is a really special individual, and who can lead and follow, be self motivating and can break out of their own background to be like their breeding but better.

I think this book is special, for reasons never touched upon by the shallow subjective reviewer, and is an explanation of how good and evil work. To achieve this, it has had to be removed from the distractions of human relationships, as any sensible person will realise.

I have read far worse books, and I object to Amazon exhibiting this description without allowing viewers to rate the review, as it does for customer reviews. As a review it rates no stars and an unhelpful mark.

Please find a better description for later books in the series.

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