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8 years ago
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Hey guys and gals
I just finished rereading the "Wolves of the Beyond" book series and I was wondering; Are there any other good feral dog or wolf books or book series out there that I'm missing?
I would like your suggestions if there are any please.
I just finished rereading the "Wolves of the Beyond" book series and I was wondering; Are there any other good feral dog or wolf books or book series out there that I'm missing?
I would like your suggestions if there are any please.
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In "The Farseer trilogy" by Robin Hobb, there's a wolf that can "talk" to someone and he's a pretty important character as well. There's quite a bit of focus on the wolf and the main character (they're bonded, hence the talking to each other), but that only starts in book two I think. Those I highly recommend, just because the story is one of the best I've read so far.
I also know of "Wolven" by Di Toft, it's about feral werewolves but that's really more of a children's series actually.
My favorite: Julie's Wolf Pack is a great story - it's considered a children's book due to the simplicity of the English word choice and sentence structure, but it has a lot of 'mature' material about scent marking, mounting, mating, and one very odd surprise that I don't want to give away. It is part of a series by Jean Craighead George, but it's the only book that really places all of the focus on the wolves, for the most part.
Great Adult Read: Alice Borchardt's Legends of the Wolf series. It's got a lot of sex, violence, and other mature material. The setting is Ancient Rome.
About Taming Wolves: In W. Bruce Cameron's prehistoric story The Dog Master, a primitive proto-human is the first to tame wolves. This is their story.
Domestic Dogs:
The Dog Who Spoke with Gods, by Dianne Jessup tells the tale of a pitbull with a human-level intelligence and the ability to speak in a basic way, what might be compared to the way that birds talk. The author is a brilliant lady who wrote The Working Pit Bull Terrier, perhaps the best guide to pit bulls in existence at this time, and loaded with photographs of dogs actually working and competing in the show ring, in addition to candid shots.
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein is an excellent book about an intelligent canine who longs to be reincarnated as a human in his next life. For now, he watches tv and continues to educate himself in that manner.
A Dog's Purpose, by W. Bruce Cameron, is a story about a dog reincarnating and working toward his life purpose, and the amusing and heartwarming situations that occur as a result. It is continued in the sequel, A Dog's Journey. The author has made many more wonderful books about domestic dogs: A Dog's Way Home, Molly's Story, Bailey's Story, and Ellie's Story.
There's the Survivors series by Erin Hunter for dog books, but that one really is a PG read. Still, that author tends to write series that become incredibly popular, some would say addicting. The books are quick, easy reads but they write tons and tons of them.
Watchers by Dean Koontz is an excellent dark sci-fi read about a canine with human-level intelligence, by the master of suspense novels.
Let me know what you think of them