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  • Written by: Robert Bly
  • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
  • Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (75 ratings)

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Iron John

Written by: Robert Bly
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
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Publisher's Summary

In this national best-seller, Robert Bly explores the idea of the missing father in contemporary society. He draws upon a cornucopia of legend and literature - as varied as the poetry of William Blake, Jungian psychology, and Sioux initiation rituals - to encourage men in their pursuit of the “inner warrior.”

©1990 Robert Bly (P)1991 Recorded Books, LLC

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One of the most beautiful books on the male journey

Helps you make sense of the things that have happened to you and find parallels in myth. Helps you to realize we’re all on our own Hero’s Journey.

The narrator is incredible as well.

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Lots of symbolism

It’s a great book but at times you can get lost in the symbology. I read it over the course of 6 months to make sense of it. Maybe I was just new to this realm of knowledge but I hope to read it again later in my life to see if it lands differently

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A Drug Free Prescription for Our Modern & Troubled Times

Bly’s perspective on the lack of the elder/mentors to guide today’s boys/girls in an ever increasing fatherless society combined with the continual psychological emasculation of men today is an accurate diagnosis and poignant reflection of the root cause to the multitude of problems we are experiencing in the world today.

Beautifully Narrated - Richard Ferrone is a True Master Story Teller much like Bly himself.

Sound Quality is Excellent

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the content of the book is good but needs better organisation ch38 should be ch1

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