Dances With Wolves is about a retired Civil War veteran seeking action who gets sent out to a post on the frontier where he's supposed to help fight off the Native Americans. He finds it entirely abandoned. Lonely, he befriends a wolf and members of the local Comanche tribe. Eventually he becomes adopted into the tribe, marries a white woman who has been with them since childhood, and lives among them for some years, until the army remembers its forgotten post and comes back…Unfortunately, this is one of the few cases where the film was better than the book. I love the movie Dances With Wolves, and when I saw the book on a shelf couldn't resist picking it up, even though I don't usually read westerns. I was sorely disappointed. The author told everything, showed nothing. The characters felt very flat. The writing style was so simple it did not engage my interest at all. I got so bored, and I didn't like the ending.
Rating: 1/5 304 pages, 2001
Thanks for the warning! I love the movie (and its music) and may have been tempted by the book.
ReplyDeleteThe music was beautiful. I think I want to go watch it again right now.
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