Duncton Wood

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These are in a way more action-packed then the first in the series (which was originally a stand-alone novel, then years later Horwood wrote two more out of the blue). These parts of the book fly by and I am never less than interested in what is happening to Mekkins and Rose and the Pasture moles. The Duncton Chronicles are one of my Favourites and I've just bought the Kindle versions to add to the Paper back copies I have on my shelves. In the midst of these events is the birth and martyrdom of the Stone Mole, a focal messianic Christ figure named Beechen.

Thank you for being my saviour Mr Harwood and to the many heroic moles that were lost during my reading of these novels. The Duncton chronicles therefore for me stands not just as a fine work of animal literature in a very small subgenre, but also as a truly amazing series in its own right, and this, it's first chapter, while not perhaps it's finest entry is still absolutely worth reading, rereading, and in fact as I myself have done, reading yet again! However, to me, a memory is much stronger, and more valuable, than a photograph ever will be because there are just things that a photograph simply cannot catch. It's not for young kids, as there is some violence and the themes would probably go over their heads anyway. I picked this up with the intention of reading all six Duncton books, since it's been so long since I've read them, but once I was nearing the end of this I found I wasn't really in the mood for the rest.

Then it introduces the antagonist, a mole named Mandrake, who is actually a pretty big mole that came into the system from afar and pretty much took over. The animal kingdom as shown in Duncton Wood is savage and the survival of the fittest is a fact of life and death.

Debra from Virginia, USA I borrowed this book from the library at RAF Alconbury, where my then-husband was stationed with the US Air Force. A complete break from what he usually does, there is nevertheless the telltale Horwood style, the way of stringing words together that leaves you captivated into the wee hours of the morning. The goal of finding the seventh book isn't mentioned till several chapters in, then it is forgotten while the moles go and do other things.Beware the Nice Ones: Boswell has no qualms about using the Dark Sound to snap Bracken out of a fit of angst and remind him to respect the secrets of the stone.

I only finished reading it a few minutes ago and decided to look up the author, I'm delighted that there is more. The worship of the Stone colours every little part of this book, which Horwood declares in his notes at the end is an allegory - probably for pagan worship. Duncton Wood - the first novel in the Duncton series - ranges among the all-time best phantasy novels of all time. Whenever this awful situation has subsided and if we ever get back to some semblance of normal and travel is once again allowed, I know exactly where I want to re-visit. Duncton Wood' is a book I well remember coming out and about which I was a little scathing at the time.e.no thumbs) and while he gives the animals character, cats are actually pretty sociopathic and that makes them a little less sympathetic than the moles of Duncton Wood. I also admire Horwood in that his villains and dark events are truly evil, with no shying back from descriptions of truly monstrous actions and feelings by his characters, while his light events are truly light! His son is still a little geeky and odd and I still love them and enjoy them as one of those series that I turn to too reread now and again just like a comfy old pair of jeans (new item of clothing! From the point of view of Siabod, the foreign language could well be "English" as spoken by the foreign moles. It caressed him with silence, soothed him with its darkness, and its labyrinths were to give him the space in which to find himself again.

However, he didn’t just take over but he also destroyed the religion of the moles as well by preventing them from worshiping at the stone and killing anybody who knew the sacred chants. Disney Death: at least three characters simply "disappear" and come back later: Bracken, though it's fairly obvious he'll be alright since it's very early in the book; Mandrake, who seals himself inside the Ancient System without a way out; and Rune, who suffers the same fate of Bracken, only to come back in the sequel. Only in the shadow of the Stone, the inspiring half-forgotten symbol of a better past, can the strength to resist oppression be found and led by Bracken. Similar to Watership Down, but with moles, this book demonstrates an excellently-crafted world populated by moles (not cutesy anthropomorphic ones but real ones that live and die among nature's often brutal indifference.My verdict: Very well-written, and full of gems, but not recommended for any but the dedicated reader. But if you're the kind of person who fancies six thousand-odd pages of religion, genocide, warfare, mysticism, romance and. In such societies mythologies develop much more often than does one in a society like ours where pretty much everything is recorded.