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books are an experience, I'm never quite sure what I'm reading with mystical cows and saintly hens and the world rising and falling on the back of a rooster, This last one seemed a little less cheeky and a little more grave maybe my favorite of the trilogy, This final installment is strange, to say the least, Repeating what everyone else has said in their reviews, it was written far long after the first two, and thesome year gap between the first and the final book is very obvious.
While it still is the battle between good and evil, it does not have the same level of allegory as its predecessors, There were a few sections I highlighted in my kindle that are references to scripture, but not as many as in the books before, I found that a little disappointing because I was very much moved by those, especially in the first book, which is to me could almost be read
parallel to Paradise Lost I am no Milton scholar, forgive me.
It could have done without the wolf sex, That's a sentence I never expected to say, That's part of the reason it lost a star from me the other is the shift in tone/lack of allegory, I still find myself left with some questions besides who built the chicken coop in the first book, Mainly, I hoped for an explanation of what happened with Wyrm and how the Wyrmsmere functioned, but I got nothing,
The ending. Oh my God the ending, I hoped that the ending would make up for the rather ehhhhhh other parts and hoo boy did it ever, I cried, okay I honestly cried, It's worth it, ultimately. I think this series is an example of why books spread so far apart should be handled carefully to retain the previous style, but the final chapters and epilogue are a good conclusion.
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This is not a book for children not that the firstbooks were either, but neither were they cringeworthy, I was frankly shocked at the gruesome violence, strong language, and indelicate passages, I know this is to portray the dark/evil ones, but I'm oldfashioned, There are ways of showing, not telling, And honestly, couldn't he have given us more Dun Cow Isn't that what we were all hoping for A good ending, but I wanted to see her at the end.
This was a disappointing ending to what is one of my favorite series, The first two books, The Book of the Dun Cow and the The Book of Sorrows are fantastic stories of good and evil, This book seemed thrown together just to end the trilogy, The story line isn't compelling, It was poorly edited, leaving multiple spelling errors and punctuation errors, Wangerin added unnecessary detailed sexual description of animal copulation that subtracts from the story, I had gone back to read the first two afteryears, and convinced my young son that they would be a great read, Unfortunately, I won't let him read this one due to the above gratuitous sexualazition of the animals as well as needless profanity that only subtracts from the story line.
I was really left wondering what happened to Walter Wangerin Jr, . He definitely seems to have lost his mojo, Although it lacks much of the beauty and wisdom of the previous two books and the first chapter in particular reads about as comfortably as a fist in the face Peace at the Last is worth reading for the finale alone.
A goodbutnotgreat volume that, in the end, overcomes its weaknesses and wraps up the Dun Cow series well, Meandering and at times unnecessarily graphic for the point being made, Kinda wish Id stopped with book, Dun at last.
Wangerin's final installment in the Dun Cow Trilogy comesyears after "Book of Sorrows" and overyears since the first Dun Cow book was published, It's strange and wonderful to me how much someone's writing can change over that span, and yet still be completely recognizable, Like how our handwriting changes over time, but is still always, always ours only,
Without giving away spoilers, "Peace at the Last" essentially brings our troop of Animals, sans Chauntecleer, into their final Safety, Wangerin edits himself down, down, down it seems more like a collection of short stories than a novel, As the story progresses, he curiously replaces all of his male leads with female ones both antagonists and protagonists, I'm still not sure what to make of that,
The morals are many: perseverance and bravery being two of them, especially perseverance even without faith or vision to help you sleep at night, And much to do with the past, too: how you cannot outrun it, Wangerin uses a beautiful illustration of how when you look at the cross section of a tree, she carries the evidence of her growth through fat and lean years in rings inside of her.
You can't exactly get away from them, but God makes way for us to carry our histories along to Paradise and leave the grief behind, He doesn't do us the dishonor of wiping our memories clean, but simply eliminates the burden of pain, This idea appeals to me a lot,
It's also worth noting that Wangerin doesn't completely do away with Evil in the story, All three installments in the Trilogy have their epic clashes between Good and Evil that's really the whole point of the stories, at least at first glance, But what he does is remove the Animals from the impact of Evil, Evil is never gone for good, but the Good escape it, and the Evil ones are simply left to their own empty selves, from now until
I love these books because of their beautiful language, their originality, even yes, me Emma says this! for their intense violence, because it serves a purpose.
Though "Peace at the Last" wasn't the greatest novel I've ever read, I'm glad Wangerin attempted the resolution the AMAZING "Book of Sorrows" desperately needed, Funny how even the smallest, most obvious resolution can takeyears to arrive,
Read these books, You won't regret it. I probably need to know more about medieval theology, etc, to fully get it characters are still great. The long awaited conclusion to the National Book Awardwinning THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW trilogy, from Walter Wangerin, Jr,
Pertelote, widow of Chauntecleer the Golden Rooster, takes up his mantle as leader of the Animals as they seek safety from the great evil of the Wyrm and his children.
Desperate to keep safe those shes responsible for, Pertelote is travelling blindly, suffering the purposeless, undirected, but insistent journey as the new leader,
Two other groups of Creatures are making their own journeys through the perilous land: Eurus the merciless yelloweyed Wolf and his pack, and the sociable pair Wachanga the CreamColored Wolf and her friend Kangi Sapa, the Raven.
When Pertelote and her band of Animals meet Wachanga and Kangi, she finds muchneeded allies in her travels, Allies that become all the more valuable after cruel Eurus begins following the weary Animals with a murderous intent,
When the disparate bands of Creatures converge on a hidden crater high in the dangerous mountains, they make a monumental discovery that may finally mean an end to their trials and tribulations.
The epic journey begun in THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW reaches its powerful conclusion in THE THIRD BOOK OF THE DUN COW: PEACE AT THE LAST, proving the sacrifices of Chauntecleer and the Animals were not in vain.
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