Life changing/thought provoking.....5 stars is NOT enough.
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I wouldn't normally review a book, so this will probably sound like a load of rubbish.
This book is great, I am not an avid reader, but could hardly put this book down!
This has taught me so much about life, and made me re-evaluate my life and life in general. I feel richer and more rounded after these fantastic words from Lame Deer. His insight, knowledge and wisdom about so many aspects of life is simply brilliant, and certainly thought provoking. It has changed me as a person.
I now feel I MUST read it all over again.
The best book I have EVER read, or will ever read. Simply FANTASTIC.
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Searching for your Grandfather's gun.
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This book will do more than teach you how to meditate or what stone to pick up off the ground: it will show you what it means to live. Although Lame Deer talks about what he knows of Native American tradition, the glimpse he gives of life through his eyes is more valuable. The tradition is nothing without the fire that lives in the man and this is a book that gives a marvellous account of that fire. Please, do throw some frogskins its way.
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An insight into the Sioux Native American culture
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I really enjoyed this book, and it kept me company through the days that I read it. Full of stories of occurances which happened to Lame Deer in his long and rich life...sometimes sobering, sometimes hilarious, but always facinating...thank you to Richard Erodes and Lame Deer for sharing their stories with us...love and light!!
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it's good
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This book is good because it was born from an unlikely friendship. Some people maybe should never be together, but the world brings them together for whatever reason. This odd pair, Richard Erdoes and John Fire nee Lame Deer, came together for many reasons, I'm sure, and one of them is the creation of this book. Lame Deer maybe chose Richard, and I feel maybe even gave him the gift to write, cause after this he goes on to do books with Mary Brave Bird and Leonard Crow Dog; letting their stories be told, just as he lets Lame Deer's story to be told. The philosophy expressed, the stories told, and the personality exposed in this book are beyond words. Lame Deer is a straight shooter. He tells it as he sees it. This can be very eye-opening and illuminating. He is real, living in reality, and at a level only very few people ascend to: the Holy Man. Very few of them walk the earth, and even fewer ever have their lives, thoughts, etc. recorded. We should feel happy we can read this, for it has power. I give it one star cause five ant enough, and one makes more sense than a mere five.
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a book you will never tire of reading again.
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the life of john lame deer is so rich that everyone will be able to see themselves in one or more of his experiences and reflections. more than just a biography, it is a philosophy and life way for all.
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