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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt; The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, &lt;I&gt;Dancing at the Rascal Fair&lt;/I&gt; is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains. &lt;P&gt; Ivan Doig's supple tale of landseekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by their obligations as they and their stormy kith and kin vie to tame the brutal, beautiful Two Medicine country.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Readers who love Norman MacLean (A River Runs Through It) and Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose, Crossing to Safety) will appreciate Ivan Doig.  In the voice of a young Scottish immigrant to Montana, he writes a novel about making a life.  Acts of God and very human choices intersect against a backdr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50171176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me more than 6 months to read this book. I could only read a couple pages at a time. It is so wordy and slow moving but I was determined to finish it and hopefully find out what my friend found so compelling about Ivan Doig's writing. She loves Montana. That wasn't enough for me. The relatio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16810780">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first of a trilogy.  I believe Ivan Doig studied with Wallace Stegner. In any case, his books have a similar flavor.<br/><br/>This is dense, but enjoyable reading.  Doig is a wordsmith. By the end of the book, you feel you know the characters--almost too well.<br/><br/>This first boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57868180">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Possibly well written, but I'm afraid I was so distracted by the self-involved narrator (&quot;protagonist&quot;) and the object of his unrequited love. I have no patience for people/characters whose self-absorption &amp; selfishness causes real unhappiness in those around them. I was utterly disgusted ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72895697">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book in high school and quickly fell in love with it.  Since then, I have frequently given it as a gift and recommended it to almost everyone I know.  I just reread it for book club, though, and am amazed at how much I had forgotten since my first reading (or maybe just missed all ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4790912">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this adventure, of 2 men who come to Montana in the late 1800's to start a new life, based only on the knowledge that one of them has an uncle there.  I felt like I was with them through their journey and life.  I heard about this book via an interview on NPR and I was not disappointed.  The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74712110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I liked about this novel:<br/><br/>-- The sense of time and place: Montana homesteading in the late 1800's and early 1900's.<br/>-- The Scottish immigrant characters.<br/>-- And probably not unrelatedly, the way a glass of whiskey is frequently being hoisted.<br/>-- The homespun feel of ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7269267">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't really care for this book.  Too much detail, the story kind of dragged for me and I just had a hard time really liking or caring about the characters.  My friend really, really wanted me to read it.  He just knew &quot;I'd loved it.&quot;  I didn't. I may just tell a little white lie and tell...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65310894">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you haven't read any Ivan Doig yet, this is the place to start.  It's the first book of a trilogy...the others are:  English Creek and Ride With Me, Mariah Montana.  Two friends set out from Scotland in the late 1800s and settle in Montana to raise sheep.  Compelling, engrossing, moving, beautifu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71016897">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is fantastic.  I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys being engulfed in a novel featuring characters so strong and well developed that they ring loudly with the emotions that only seem to echo quietly within us.  This story and it's setting unfold beautifully onto the pages of this fas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46408551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought I'd read this already, but I pulled it off a friends' shelf the other day and realized I hadn't. Ivan Doig is a great Western writer and this is him at his best. He can get too descriptive to me, but this one is perfectly executed. It's the first of a trilogy and I plan to read the rest.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Take a long, engaging trip to homestead in Montana. Read beautifully crafted sentences out loud to anyone in earshot. What a book! I love the West and good western writing, so was happy to totally lose myself in this book. A good story well told. Up there with &quot;Angle of Repose&quot; (Stegner). ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scottish immigrants arrive in Montana in the 1880's to homestead... Doig's ability to impart a sense of place is so strong, I found myself expecting to look out the window to Montana winter, instead of Oregon autumn.  Interesting and distinctive characters, good plot and pacing.  I was sorry to see ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37450064">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully written.  I kept wanting to jot down sentences simply because the language was so stunning.  If I could give multiple ratings, it would get a five for the prose.  The story, though it drew me through the book, just didn't appeal to me the way the writing did.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sweeping story of two Scotsmen coming to American as teenagers and settling along the Rockies front line.  I learned later that this is the 3rd in a saga.  I will have to catch up on the past.  Wonderful description of the west during homestead times.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend told me about this book...even loaned me a copy 10 or so years ago.  I read at it for a bit, then gave it back to him.  The second time I picked it up, I devoured it.  You have to read English Creek first for it to make much sense.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Irish immigrant traveling with close friend to remote Montana, in the 19th century. Ivan Doig tells the story so well you feel you're there. Kept me hooked even though long book. Had some unimaginable hardships, made me think.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the reason I hate to choose a &quot;favorite&quot; book:  because ones that are near and dear to my heart are inevitably left out!  This was my first Ivan Doig read, but certainly not my last.  This is not a book of happy-ever-afters, but of heartbreaks that shape the soul for better or wors...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22182161">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story engaged me and I felt drawn into the lives of these people.  Aside from that, the reviews of others are pretty accurate: it is a bit wordy, but I didn't mind that; the two main characters are detestable, the kind of people that arouse anger and disgust...neither of them (nor Anna) deserved...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76758226">more...</a>]]></body>
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