The Honey Badger [Hardcover]

Robert Ruark (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Buccaneer Books (December 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568493266
• ISBN-13: 978-1568493268
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.7 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,326,664 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT'S ABOUT A MAN. A MAN'S MAN, December 15, 1999

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"jas-webb" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Honey Badger (Hardcover)

CRITICS OFTEN ACCUSED RUARK OF TRYING TO WRITE LIKE HEMINGWAY. YOU CAN PUT ANY OF RUARK'S BOOKS AGAINST ANY OF HEMINGWAY'S AND LO, THE WINNER IS...RUARK. FOR PLOT, CHARACTERS, DESCRIPTIONS AND INTENSITY. THE HONEY BADGER IS NEW YORK, EUROPE, AFRICA, SWEAT, ANGER, LAUGHTER AND LIVING LIKE YOU WERE MEANT TO BE ALIVE.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ruark's Last Stand - A Fictional Autobiography, March 10, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Honey Badger (Mass Market Paperback)

Robert Chester Ruark was one of the mid-20th centuries "larger-than-life" characters: journalist, author, world traveller and big game hunter and in this, his last work, it is impossible to fathom where Ruark finishes and Alex Barr, the principal character starts. In "The Honey Badger", first published(posthumously) in 1965, Ruark - thru his hero -searches for a purpose to his existence in a tapestry encompassing the restaurants of New York, thru wartime London to the plains of Africa. And just what isa honey badger? A mean little animal which, when cornered, attacks straight for the balls!! Immensely readable.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Booze and Broads, December 28, 2001

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Thomas Wilkinson (Baltimore, Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Honey Badger (Mass Market Paperback)

Ruark wrote what he lived, nothing more. Do not look for psychological sophistication or fiction that operates on more than one level. Ruark was the epitome of the soldier of fortune most men dream about in their Mitty-like fantasies. Alive and healthy today, he would be in Afganistan as a correspondent looking for the head of bin Laden while making Geraldo look like an even bigger fool. The Honey Badger aptly describes Ruark's relationships with women and is a good read for insight into the '50s macho mentality. Women, then and now, openly condemn his as a sexist brute while secretly admiring his strength and masculinity...both sides of the same coin!