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Little Big Man: A Novel by Thomas Berger, Brooks Landon

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rojo25's review against another edition

4.0

This book was well researched and well told. I have to say this was quite entertaining and there was a wealth of interesting information regarding tracking and Native American life. I highly recommend.

jbrito's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny informative slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

dipoppleton's review against another edition

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2.0

It is a great story, however I hate the protagonist. He ditches his family on three separate occasions and I kept hoping that he would just sie

bobbo49's review against another edition

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adventurous informative reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I saw the Dustin Hoffman movie (1970) a long long time ago, but couldn't have imagined the depth of the original story that Berger presented. If I didn't know that this was fiction, it would have been easy to believe that the central character was real; the insights into the personalities of historical characters like Custer, Hickok, and other well-known names from the Old West seem reasonably derived from first-hand experiences. Overall an interesting perspective into places, times and events that helped define Western expansionism and the (terrible) treatment of the native people

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5.0

This is a romp of a book, like Flashman, though slightly more believable.'

Berger gets to the heart of western language. He's direct, profane, awkwardly pedantic at times, in ways I imagine people were when they tried to be formal. By turns, the book is funny, poignant, and insightful.

A must for anyone who wants to understand the American west, and, indeed, the United States and its protracted genocide against the native peoples could do worse than start with Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Thomas Berger's Little Big Man.