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Title: Bob Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant ISBN: 1404300430 Publisher: Indypublish.Com Pub. Date: 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $90.99

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Average Customer Rating: 5

Rating: 5
Summary: Good Versus Evil
Comment: The best dog story ever written, bar none (I'm including Lassie Come Home and The Call of the Wild). What makes it so are two things: detail and duality. The book works on two levels, with one level being a very realistically drawn portrait of the lives of the shepherds of England's Yorkshire dales, and the other being a interlocking tale of two men, one good and the other evil, and their dogs, also good and evil, respectively.

What really kicks this story up a notch from the usual dog story is the depth of the good-and-evil theme, with the point being that in even the best of men there are weaknesses, and that in even the worst of men there are strengths.

A thinking man's dog story, and a parable of tolerance far ahead of its time.

Note: The dialogue is written in the vernacular of the place and time (late nineteenth century England), and is not always easy to wade through. It's well worth doing so, however.

Rating: 5
Summary: I remember it from my youth
Comment: I live in Vermont. The adjoining forest contains an old grave marker which reads "Bob, Son of Battle". Anyone have an explanation?

Rating: 5
Summary: I liked this book
Comment: I liked Bob Son of Battle because I thought Bob was cute and nice. I didn't like when Bob was eating a lamb and blood was dripping.