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9th out of 76 books
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The Fox and The Hound
Hardcover, 251 pages
Published
February 1st 1967
by Pocket Books
(first published 1967)
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The life of a red fox over the years as he survives hunters, trappings, hounds, human encroachment, drought, and the hound who’s hunting him.
The story takes places from two points of view: Tod the fox, and Copper the hound. The hunted and the hunter. The book starts with the hunting dog, Copper, as he and his master are enlisted by the police to find a missing man. Copper doesn’t know this, only that he is to track a scent. At the end is a dead body, and the scent of bear. Shortly afterwards, Co...more
The story takes places from two points of view: Tod the fox, and Copper the hound. The hunted and the hunter. The book starts with the hunting dog, Copper, as he and his master are enlisted by the police to find a missing man. Copper doesn’t know this, only that he is to track a scent. At the end is a dead body, and the scent of bear. Shortly afterwards, Co...more
This is the book the disney classic is based on but you got to hand to the House of Mouse, no one mangles a story like they do in the name of family entertainement.
Whereas the film is a story of friendship that survives depite circumstances in a way almost reminiscent of Romeo and Juliette, the book is more about the daily struggles of a fox and a dog (and up to a certain point the Master) in a world that changes around their ears in which they don't quite fit.
I only recall the Dysney movie very...more
Whereas the film is a story of friendship that survives depite circumstances in a way almost reminiscent of Romeo and Juliette, the book is more about the daily struggles of a fox and a dog (and up to a certain point the Master) in a world that changes around their ears in which they don't quite fit.
I only recall the Dysney movie very...more
Jun 23, 2012
Sparky Lurkdragon
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
animal lovers, xenofiction enthusiats
Shelves:
xenofiction
One of my all-time favourite works of xenofiction. No mere talking animals musical is this: the book really explores what it would actually be like to be a beast of smell and sound over the beasts of sight us humans are. Gripping, exciting, beautiful, and sad. Damn shame it's out of print - snap it up if you can.
(Date finished a rough guess; I've read it several times since.)
(Date finished a rough guess; I've read it several times since.)
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Did you know this was a book? Me neither! It bears very little resemblance to the Disney movie (which is also one of my all-time favorites - it's actually kind of funny seeing how they pieced various parts together out of order/context to create said film). But even so, it is its own kind of incredible animal story, and fully deserving of its award.
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Absolutely amazing! Colored one's heart to see from a different perspective. Compassionate and realistic. As a human who loves all creatures, this book was tear-jerking at times and "tickling the funny bone" at others. I rate this book above "Black Beauty" and right in line with "Watership Down", both tales told from a first-"person" perspective!
Written in the point of view of a foxhound. The first book I have ever read in an animal's pov. There are a few pages of a wolf's pov in "Ordinary Wolves" by Seth Kantner. So vivid that even after putting the book down, I tended to see things, notice them, at a dog's height. One of the first books I read in English. Profound.
I read it in grade school, and it stuck with me. The book is written from the perspective of both the fox and the hound, and was pretty well-done. In the latter part of the book, the world around them was changed by "Progress", again described through the animals' senses. I could relate to this story; I've foxhunted many years ago, and have since watched the foxhunters become old men and few, and seen the fields and woods sprout houses and stores full of city folk with no sense of the land they...more
Such an unbelievably great and sad book. Moving in many ways. I braced myself for a sad ending but I wasn't expecting it to end the way it did. Very well written. Also, if you own this book, hang on to it because it is rare and worth a lot of money.
Yeah, pretty good... NOTHING like the movie... you know, basically the only thing that the book and the movie had in common were the names of the characters.
A great read. It's been years since I've read it.
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