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    <body><![CDATA[Having just pushed through the deep lakes of thought Bly makes us dwell in, and having exhausted a lot of energy traveling miles and miles of metaphor I feel short of power to describe this book. <br/><br/>I can say that I am, and few would disagree, the least among you to be found in a drum circl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24168446">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of all the books I've read I think this one generates the most controversy among amateur reviewers like me. I take that as evidence of the book's relevance and power. Cutting to the chase, I love this book.<br/><br/>Mr. Bly is writing about the strange and puzzling fact that the village elders do ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14746779">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, man.  We all know how it's said that we can't judge books by their covers, or at least that we shouldn't...but this book can be judged easily with a quick glance at the <em>back</em> cover.  Here is the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.johnprin.com/images/RobertBly-sml.jpg">author</a>. <br/><br/>Note the &quot;ethnic&quot; vest over the button-up shirt and velvet ascot.  This ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33322551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is why I love Robert Bly. The modern man is lost, disheveled, and more broken everyday because there is no guidance to lead him into maturity, and through self-discovery. Utilizing the myth of Iron John, Robert Bly offers some answer to the wounds we receive in life, and how those too are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22521944">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in attempt to understand the opposite sex.  This is a book about how boys become men, and the stages a man moves through as life unfolds.  There is a story within the story too.  It is a fairytale about a boy and the Wild Man.  I like the Wild Man story very much, and the author's i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79891558">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting analogies by this fine poet. He finds parallels between different societies' myths of how boys become men. I loved some of the deep history -- &quot;Iron John&quot; from the Brothers Grimm is based on a story 20,000 years old. Gorgeous stuff that rings true.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The bible for men interested in going into the backwoods (but never five miles from a 7-Eleven), playing Indian, beating on drums, and sitting around in a circle fondling their penises in a communal display of primal manhood.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this seems like an important book to me.  Bly speaks in poetry, symbols and myths, which is a strong point, but a common critique of him is that he tends to &quot;over-interpret.&quot;  Again, that's also part of the book's strength -- it's meant to inspire and engender creativity in others, so if i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25899496">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Honestly, the book drug on a little. However, the ideas it presented were ideas that explained a lot about the current dilemma in the world of men not knowing what being a man means. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is one of the books i read that helped me to figure out what was the purpose of my self destruction in my early/mid twenties.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i love this book about men. It is a psychological,sociological understanding of a man from childhood to adulthood.<br/>i really love this. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyable, but honestly taught me nothing about men.  Don't think that info. comes from book learnin'.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dudes (especially dudes)... read this book. Empower men everywhere!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Life Changing book for men.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not quite finished with this yet.  A really unusual book.  I kept up with the controversy it sparked when it was first released, but didn't read it then.  Wish I had. <br/><br/>Essentially a meditative essay.  Not really psychology, not really history, not really anthropology, but somehow more thoug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44658727">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a strange book. It came highly recommended to me, and I liked that it was a serious book, very blunt and honest.  However, the style was difficult to read through, and there's a lot of stuff, as a Muslim, I question and have to re-interpret. But despite all of that, it has helped me get ser...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/716867">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I came to this book because I did extensive reading about women for my thesis and wanted a break.  There is rich insight here, and I feel that it's very much expanded my understanding.  There are parts where I think Bly imposes an unfair image on what he considers to be the modern man, and to some e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1583036">more...</a>]]></body>
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