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But the group that abandoned him had already left. He picked up supplies and joined yet another party of four men to Fort Atkinson in dogged pursuit of the men who betrayed him. They encountered another band of Aricaras. Two of the men were killed, while the others escaped. Glass found himself alone again. Glass had lost his gun but still had his flint and knife. Reports of his superhuman journey and vengeful desire had already reached the fort; he was received with awe and expectation, but his rage had been completely exhausted by the nine-month trek.
Write to Eliana Dockterman at eliana. By Eliana Dockterman January 7, What's Eating Gilbert Grape , The Basketball Diaries , Catch Me If You Can , Gangs of New York , The Aviator , The Departed , The bear attack will be in the movie. It's crucial to the story.
Don't mess around with bears, man. Did I expect to really enjoy a book set in the early s about fur traders wandering So the book kicks off with Leonardo DiCaprio getting mauled by a bear so that alone may be enough for you to wanna read this book. Did I expect to really enjoy a book set in the early s about fur traders wandering around trading fur and shooting guns and whatnot? No, I absolutely did not.
In fact, I checked this out from the library because I knew about the movie, and then I let it sit around for a month or so before I picked it up. But, I'll be damned if this ain't one hell of an adventure! Punke is it Punk, Punky, Pun-Kay The settings be describes, the characters he develops, the dialogue He grabbed me by the neck and flung me back two hundred years ago like you would throw a Hot Pocket that you cooked too long in the microwave but didn't realize it until you bit into it and all the hot goo inside leaked out and burned your mouth.
In short, the guy did his homework. And this stuff really happened?! Are you kidding me?! I'm not usually a fan of this genre, but I loved the book and I'm excited for the movie. It gets a little too descriptive and slows down just a little at times, but it's a great manly adventure story of survival and revenge. Great way to kick off the year! Seriously, stay away from bears. View all 13 comments. Jan 20, Kelly and the Book Boar marked it as to-read Shelves: Because some things are too funny to keep to myself. View all 4 comments. This is a dark and gruesome tale of the wild mountain west and the treacherous planes.
The key story here is of survival and revenge, tragic heroes and scoundrels, Mountain Men and Natives, truth and fiction. I am glad that they made a movie of this book, because I am not sure my attention would not have been drawn to it without the hype. I recommend this book, but only to the strong of stomach!
Dec 12, Dianne rated it liked it. This book of frontier justice is based on a true story and the movie is based on the book I can tell you there are at least 2 major differences between the book and the movie, and they're mighty big ones. I read this because I always like to read the book before I see the movie, so mission accomplished.
The book was difficult to stick with but finally picked up in the second half. I'll report back after I see the movi This book of frontier justice is based on a true story and the movie is based on the book I'll report back after I see the movie on which I think was better - it's usually the book, but this time I'm betting on the movie.
The book is good, but not as good as I'd hoped for. I finally did see the movie this weekend. The kernel of the story is the same but it has been embellished for dramatic impact and the ending has changed. I feel the same way about the movie that I did about the book - a 3. Good performances and beautiful scenery, but didn't love it.
Jan 12, Jennifer rated it liked it Shelves: A Novel of Revenge is a historical fiction novel themed with survival and of course, revenge. The author Michael Punke incorporated some pretty raw scenes in this story that kept me engaged and on the edge of my seat.
There was a parallel and secondary non-wilderness story that I was less than enthusiastic about but all parts were important for the historical component and created a well-rounded tale. After some research about the nonfictional 19th century main character Hugh Glass, The Revenant: After some research about the nonfictional 19th century main character Hugh Glass, I found that Mr. Punke put his own spin on certain aspects of his documented story. After reading the real-life ending to Hugh Glass's angry journey, I don't blame Mr. Punke for writing some of his own details for readers.
However, Hollywood's adaptation is another story. The film may have been inspired by Mr. Punke's novel but it varies significantly in many areas. I enjoyed The Revenant and am glad I read it. As always, I appreciate it when a work of "fiction" leads me to learn more about the real-life journeys of those who came before us. Fusing heaven to earth, the Big Horn Mountains stood before him.
A few clouds swirled around the highest peaks, furthering the illusion of a wall reaching forever upward. His eyes watered from the glare of the sun against snow, but he could not look away His awe of the mountains grew in the days that followed, as the Yellowstone River led him nearer and nearer. Their great mass was a marker, a benchmark fixed against time itself. Others might feel disquiet at the notion of something so much larger than themselves. But for Glass, there was a sense of sacrament that flowed from the mountains like a font, an immortality that made his quotidian pains seem inconsequential.
It turns out the author Michael Punke wears many hats. His political positions unfortunately prevent him from talking to reporters which has kept him out of the Hollywood spotlight in terms of his novel's success. Who knows, maybe he likes it that way.
The Revenant
For an online article that discusses Mr. Punke in further detail, click HERE. Tendo perdido autonomia -- o urso deixara-o num estado moribundo -- tornara-se um empecilho para os seus companheiros. E assim foi -- apoderaram-se das poucas armas e parcos pertences de Glass, semi enterraram-no numa cova aberta, e puseram-se ao fresco! O seu objectivo era claro e determinado: View all 17 comments.
Mar 04, Jim rated it liked it Shelves: I never had any real interest in reading this book, being already familiar with the story of Hugh Glass. On top of that, I had already seen the horrid yawner of a movie which involved a pathetic DiCaprio wandering shivering over the Canadian countryside and later describing a Chinook as evidence of our impending doom from global warming.
Unfortunately, a co-worker reasoned that, since he had once seen me reading a book, it would necessarily follow that I would want to read anything that had pa I never had any real interest in reading this book, being already familiar with the story of Hugh Glass. Unfortunately, a co-worker reasoned that, since he had once seen me reading a book, it would necessarily follow that I would want to read anything that had paper sandwiched between two covers.
I could tell that he thought he was doing me a great favour, and since I am not one who likes to be untruthful I couldn't just give it back a week later and tell him it was OK. I reluctantly read the darn thing. Surprisingly, I didn't hate the book. Happily, some screenwriter had obviously taken liberties and totally messed up the movie version, but that's the case for almost every translation of book to film. Punke isn't a bad storyteller, although he tends to lay it on a bit thick with the woodcraft.
Tell me that Glass built a bullboat I don't need to be told how he built it! That can slow the story down quite a bit, although this book didn't suffer terribly as a result. Some actions assigned to Glass were hard to swallow, such as a badly mauled man barely having the use of one of his arms suddenly having the capacity to start a fire with bow and drill, an activity requiring the vigorous use of both arms.
And lets not forget the gr charge of powder in the rifle Adding more powder doesn't give more range, it just gives you more unburned powder being shoved out of the barrel. So I didn't hate it. Didn't learn anything from it, but I can give the book back to my co-worker and thank him for loaning it to me. I can tell him it wasn't bad with a clear conscience.
And it is much better than the movie, a point I have to emphasize because I could see people dodging the book if they had seen the movie first. View all 5 comments. Now that I've read it I can head to the theater tomorrow. I thought the story was good. Punke admits that he has taken a lot of liberties with the story but all in all he still presented us with most of the basic facts.
There are some big gaps in the action but they are filled with what I consider some pretty interesting historical knowledge and that is a subject that I find interesting anyway so the lags didn't bother me too much. View all 9 comments. Nov 04, Asghar Abbas rated it really liked it.
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I am hesitant to say it's breathtaking, but it's breathtaking. As brutal as the movie was, the book is more brutal and oddly enough more visceral. Nature and open range were not only an element but a part, an additional character of this book. And what a foe it was. Yet this was also about folly of men. Kinda reminds me and puts me in mind to recite one of my wordlings from Don't be afraid of nature don't be afraid of men but be oh so very afraid of nature of men. View all 7 comments. The Revenant is fascinating story about a man who suffers countless tragedy at the hands of nature and man, and seeks redemption.
In the afterward, the author Michael Punke explains that many of the moments in his book are in fact fiction. He endured within a year what no man should ha The Revenant is fascinating story about a man who suffers countless tragedy at the hands of nature and man, and seeks redemption. He endured within a year what no man should have to experience in a lifetime. I could not imagine going through it.
This book was well worth my time l listened to the audio version. Because some of the book was difficult to picture, and other parts were just so-so, I feel the movie experience may actually eclipse that of the book. View all 11 comments. Feb 02, Jim rated it it was amazing. I don't think "Revenge" is considered a book genre, but it should be. Apparently I really love books on revenge.
A trapper is mauled nearly to death by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his companions. Only he doesn't die. Now, half-dead and unable to stand, he sets out to crawl his way across hostile and untamed land to seek revenge on those who abandoned him. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
This is a man's book. In fact, with the exception I don't think "Revenge" is considered a book genre, but it should be. In fact, with the exception of an ancient Native American woman, there are no female characters in this book. Or, to a lesser extent, the book The Stars My Destination although in a much different time period.
The Revenant is based on the true story of Hugh Glass , an American fur trader. It's hard to believe that anyone could have lived this story. I'm certainly glad that I live in the 21st Century with electricity and cell phones, and Penicillin. Granted, I'll never be as "weather-hardened" as any one of the characters in this story, but my life expectancy should be at least twice as long. Still, with epic lines such as "Happy New Year, you dirty sons of bitches", this book will make you long for a life lived on the edge of the known world, where you're free to decide, and implement, your own brand of justice.
Jul 18, Kavita rated it it was amazing Shelves: I can't believe I actually enjoyed this book. It was all about fighting and hunting and living in the rough, and not a single woman in the pages. But gosh, it was riveting! Hugh Glass was a man who lived life on the edge. This was not due to any need or cash crunch. He just liked it, and soon it became the only way he knew how to live. His father wanted him to become a lawyer, but Glass had other plans for his future.
In the end, his father relented and allowed him to pursue his dreams. Glas I can't believe I actually enjoyed this book. Glass started his career as a sailor. He later became a frontiersman, hunter, scout, and fur trapper. Glass was kidnapped by pirates, almost killed in a ritual sacrifice by the Pawnee, mauled by a grizzly bear, survived in the inhospitable land with no weapons and injured, escaped in an Arikara ambush But he never stopped and continuously stepped from one dangerous assignment to another.
The Revenant is a novel about Glass' confrontation with the grizzly, and then being abandoned by his colleagues.
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He survived god only knows how, but he did get back to 'civilisation' and tracked down those who had abandoned him. I would not call this great literature and the author's writing style was sometimes confusing as he switched from one topic to the other. He also often switched back and forth in time, which didn't sit well with me. But Punke somehow managed to keep my interest alive and I don't remember when was the last time I was so fascinated by a biography, fictional though it is.
Punke does provide an author's note at the end where he describes the fictional parts. I really loved this book and will be looking out for the other books by this author. Hugh Glass is fascinating and I really admire his spunk and his perseverance. But if you asked me, I'd have chosen law school!
Dec 09, Karla rated it it was ok Shelves: Punke did his survivalist research, that's for sure. Every single step of every single thing Glass did to make fires and traps, etc. Should have just stuck with the movie. View all 12 comments. Mar 04, Selene rated it liked it. The Revenant is a story of survival, determination, rage, and want for revenge. The overall plot was good but the detail while useful for the story made the story hard to read at times.
I found at times it read very fictional and during others it seemed very non fiction which made the story seem chunked. Michael Punke did a fantastic job with his research. I loved that this story had me looking into Hugh Glass' history and the 19th century fur trade. Feb 11, Jessaka rated it it was ok Shelves: Great book, one of my friends said as she passed the book on to me. I looked at the title, a story of revenge. This book is not for me, I thought. But then I began reading the first chapters, a book on survival. I like survival stories, and this one is based on a true story of a trapper back in the s that is with a company of men who are out doing their own scouting when he gets mauled by a bear.
When his company gets back to him, they find that he is almost dead. He is pieced back together, Great book, one of my friends said as she passed the book on to me. He is pieced back together, but then he is left in the care of two men, who are asked to stay with him until he dies and then are asked to bury him.
They stay for a while, but then they see that Indians are coming, so they grab all of their belongings, as well as his, and leave him to die or to get scalped, whichever comes first. The Indians never show up so he lays there with a fever. He sees a rattlesnake eating a rabbit, and then the rattlesnake attacks him over and over again. I am thinking that I would have died from fright right then, if not from the bear attack. Then he wakes up, sees the rattlesnake is still trying to digest the rabbit and smashes it with a stone and eats it. Then he crawls on his belly to get to the creek for water.
He does this because he needs to crawl on it in order to get back to the fort that is miles away. First and last time I ever had to kill a rattlesnake I had a shotgun. First and last time I ever ate a rattlesnake I was at a Texas rattlesnake roundup. All I can tell you is that the meat is tough. The title turned me off. I was so bored that I began reading a fun teenage mystery story, and in between all of this I began reading a great book titled, The Jew Store, a true story about a Jewish family leaving New York for Tennessee and then having to face racism, and I sat there thinking that they picked a horrible place to move to being that they were Jewish and were the only Jewish family in town.
So, today I went back to reading this book. I learned how he fought off a pack of wolves after seeing them hunt down a buffalo calf. He wanted a share of the bounty. I read how he did other things to survive, like make a crutch. Later on when he was able to walk he turned the crutch into a spear and then he walked into a deserted Indian village where he met a blind woman and her dog. Jan 12, Darwin8u rated it liked it Shelves: Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
I read the book first. Untainted by the movie and then went to see the movie. The book was good. It was interesting and had great characters. The writing was ok. My big two beefs with the novel were the prose again good, just not great and the ending meh. So, this ends up being one of those novels where the movie ends up being more expansive and beautiful and perhaps, yes, artful than the original book.
Part of that is due to Punke trying to at lest stay close to original events. He was clear when he deviated from the history in the historical note and because of this, it didn't crescendo and payoff like the movie. The movie ended up being more violent than the book yes, the book was violent, but in a more contained way. The visuals were amazing. But nature is a cold bitch for sure. He can't even really talk about the novel or the movie because of Federal ethics rules prohibit pimping stuff while you work for the Feds.
Anyway, I end up being just as fascinated with the author's story, the story of the real Hugh Glass, and the way the book intersects and differs from the movie MORE than I was impressed by the actual book.
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View all 3 comments. Hugh Glass wird von einem Grizzly angegriffen und erleidet starke Verwundungen die mir fast zu detailliert beschrieben wurden, ich bin in dieser Hinsicht aber auch wirklich sehr empfindlich. The year is , and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men's encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes—like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker.
But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously Description: But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. The Company's captain dispatches two of his men to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies, and to give him the respect of a proper burial. When the two men abandon him instead, taking his only means of protecting himself—including his precious gun and hatchet— with them, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out crawling inch by inch across more than three thousand miles of uncharted American frontier, negotiating predators both human and not, the threat of starvation, and the agony of his horrific wounds.
The river sequence in the film, my Main Man tells me, is a human impossibility - four minutes would freeze your average healthy specimen. He knows these things and lectures at the uni on such subjects.