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This is a great story. My fifth grade students had trouble with all the long names in here, though. I wish they could have just soaked it all in and enjoyed the exotic sounds of the names. But they really didn't. Because of the names, they got stressed out and didn't like the book until almost the end. Some have said that in retrospect it was one of the best books they ever read. But that's in retrospect. While reading it, they were overwhelmed. As for me, though, I really enjoyed this book.


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The Iron Ring Lloyd Alexander 9780141303482 Books Reviews

I'd call myself quite the fantasy buff. My friends would call me quite the fantasy addict. But somehow, I managed to make it through my whole life thus far without reading any Lloyd Alexander, whom I've heard hailed as one of the masters of the genre. "Time Cat" was on a reading list in fourth grade, as I recall, but I was operating under the often correct assumption that teachers never assign books that are any good and refused to read it. But a few minutes after I turned the last page of this wonderful homage to old Indian mythology, I was scanning the library website for Alexander books and calculating how many of them I could check out at once. That's how much I liked "The Iron Ring". Yeah, at times it gets a little ridiculous. But mythology's ridiculous. Fantasy's ridiculous. LIFE'S ridiculous. So it only made me love the book more.

What kind of ridiculousness am I talking about? Well, first off, King Tamar's challenged to a game of dice by a foreign ruler whose characterization screams bad-guy, and he plays anyway. And doesn't get suspicious when he wins over and over again- only to lose the last round, ending up with no winnings and his soul sold to the creepy foreign guy, who vanishes without a trace. It would be easy to ignore the debt, but Tamar has a warrior's code to live up to, and so he will or die in the attempt. So he sets off with his sage, Rajaswami, to keep his word. Along the way, though, Tamar meets up with a lovely, brilliant milkmaid named Mirri, a fallen king named Ashwara who needs help regaining his kingdom, a blunt sage named Adi-Kavi, and a host of fantastic talking animals. Nearly all of them think Tamar should give up his fool quest - or at least stop being so pigheaded about the so-called warrior's code - and Tamar's got to make a very important decision on what he wants his fate to be.

And yeah, pigheaded's the right word for Tamar. I wanted to slap him every other page at the beginning (along with that Rajaswami for encouraging him), but he evolves into a rational, moral person by the end of the book. Through the other characters, Alexander does a great job of calling both traditional hero-questing values and the complex Indian caste system into question. The really amazing thing is that he does it without badmouthing anyone who enforced it. Mirri's in love with Tamar, but she's also one of his harshest critics, helping cancel out the love-at-first-sight aspect of the novel. Ashwara, Tamar's role model, managed to both follow his rules and consider the fact that they might be wrong. Even the animals and other human travelers are forced to change their philosophies a time or two.

Completely aside from the moral stuff, this story's just well done. Mirri, Hashkat the monkey, and Adi-Kavi the sage all had such funny lines I stopped trying to count them. The plot's great, too; Alexander weaves a superb tapestry, and I was hard-pressed to find a loose thread hanging anywhere, even when it came to little details that most readers wouldn't even remember. I challenge all you out there reading this to find one- and if you do, feel free to mark this review down into oblivion. Anything that'll get you to give Lloyd Alexander a shot.
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Blast from my youth! I loved this book when I was a kid.

I recommended it for young readers!

Although i'm 26 and am enjoying it as well.

Some concepts seem elementary (being a children's book), but the Morals are spot on!
Lloyd Alexander has a great ability to take the style of the old legends and give them new life. This book reads like any familiar folk tale, though the Indian setting and the book's opening dream sequence lend a more mysterious mood over the book. Scholastically, it's not very weighty, though younger readers may find the themes of class, identity and honor worth contemplation.

Like many adventure stories, The Iron Ring establishes the hero and the villain without much ambiguity. However, the book's setting in the birthplace of Buddhism and Hinduism sets the stage for some interesting explorations of truth and illusion as the hero wonders if he is fulfilling his destiny or forsaking reality for a dream. Furthermore, the young king gains a stronger understanding and respect for the lives of those outside the life of his small kingdom, as his perception of the world around him grows. If you demand historical accuracy and drink your philosophy strong, this book is not for you. But if you're looking for a good straight-up adventure story, Lloyd Alexander is your man.
This is a great story. My fifth grade students had trouble with all the long names in here, though. I wish they could have just soaked it all in and enjoyed the exotic sounds of the names. But they really didn't. Because of the names, they got stressed out and didn't like the book until almost the end. Some have said that in retrospect it was one of the best books they ever read. But that's in retrospect. While reading it, they were overwhelmed. As for me, though, I really enjoyed this book.