The Book of the Dun Cow
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The Book of the Dun Cow
Narrated by:
Paul Michael
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Paul Michael
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National Book Award, 1980
"Paul Michael enlivens the text with a deep, robust voice that keeps a good pace." ( AudioFile)
"Belongs on the same shelf with Animal Farm, Watership Down, and The Lord of the Rings." ( Los Angeles Times)
"Paul Michael enlivens the text with a deep, robust voice that keeps a good pace." ( AudioFile)
"Belongs on the same shelf with Animal Farm, Watership Down, and The Lord of the Rings." ( Los Angeles Times)
The hero is wise, lonely, and flawed-but-Chosen; the females are gentle, passive, and adoring; the Evil is fearsome and, uh, evil; and you're either with Chanticleer or against him in the final extremely bloody battle. It's a straight-up patriarchal fantasy of the rawest kind. It's an odd effect, as the original Chanticleer stories mock the rooster's delusional belief that he makes the sun rise and are a satire on exactly the sort of naive chivalric story 'Book of the Dun Cow' winds up being. In this story the rooster actually does have some sort of mystical role ordained by God and it's extremely important this not be questioned. Sometimes it feels a bit like the sort of story the Pigs would assign young subservient animals to read in Animal Farm.
However! its fun, affecting, wonderfully read, only occasionally annoying, and a good way to spend 8 hours. Four stars!
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