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Title: Death of an Eagle by Kirby Jonas ISBN: 1-891423-01-0 Publisher: Howling Wolf Creations Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The top western!
Comment: I read Death of an Eagle after being introduced to Jonas's books through THE DANSING STAR. I didn't think Jonas could get any better, but now I don't know. I'll have to cast my vote for this one. I've read Louis L'Amour all my life, and he was always my favorite author. One of the other reviewers said Kirby Jonas is called THE NEW LOUIS L'AMOUR, and that fits. But he's actually better than L'Amour. His character development is complete and tremendous! What a super book! My favorite western of all time--a match for SHANE.
Rating: 5
Summary: Everyone will love this book!
Comment: I read Kirby Jonas's The Dansing Star, and I didn't think a better book could come along. Then I read Death of an Eagle. I don't know if it's actually better. But it's different. Refreshing, and happy and sad. It brings out every emotion you can feel, bar none. The ending of this book is so sad, but it shows how life was back then, and the changing of the west. Still, good always triumphs in a great book, and Death of an Eagle has to be among the top books from the who I consider the best Western writer who has ever lived. They call Kirby Jonas the New Louis L'AMour. I loved L'AMour's stuff, but Jonas is FAR better--more historically accurate, and more full of detail and emotion.
Rating: 5
Summary: Understanding the heart of the West............
Comment: A sculptor taps away at a rock and reveals the body he finds beneath the stone. A painter looks at a blank canvas and sees images coming to life at the discretionary wave of his hand. It is the essence of the artist that we are left to interpret as we often see little of the toil that brought the piece to life. However, sometimes, we look upon an artistic rendering and know the artist suffered, or enjoyed, or was fulfilled by the work; and we get to see the secret innermost reaches of his soul. It speaks to us because it was so very real and important to him. And in that moment when that common thread is found, we smile and say, "I understand what he meant." Now the inverse of that would be the artist that looked at his audience and said, "I understand what they want." This book, like all those of Jonas, gives the lover of the West just that. This man ushers his readers into a time machine and brings the west alive in a way that no writer, in my experience, previously has done. Zane Gray and Louis L'Amour will always be the standards to which this writer is compared as people will find it hard to step out of the genre. But I challenge the reader to compare Jonas' work to the pieces completed by Hemingway at this stage of his career, even Kipling, or Yeats. There is a poetry and fluidity to this young man's style that happens to be portrayed in the west but should be respected on any level of writing quality. You see, PASSION, in all things, is what separates those from the common soldiers that allow the momentum of mediocrity to rule their lives. Jonas speaks volumes of heart and soul in "Eagle" because the voice he has found rings true and with a commitment to accuracy. Much like a proud man would protect his family heritage, Jonas takes the responsibility of "story teller" to the highest degree. "Death of an Eagle" is a must read. It's portrayals of accuracy, kinship, loyalty and heart are merely the superficial assets of the "piece". Lying below the sculptor's rendering, surrounded by stone, beats a heart, available to all and proudly offered by this great author.
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Title: The Dansing Star by Kirby Jonas ISBN: 1891423002 Publisher: Howling Wolf Creations Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Legend of the Tumbleweed by Kirby Jonas, James W. Drury ISBN: 1891423029 Publisher: Howling Wolf Creations Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Lady Winchester by Kirby Jonas ISBN: 1891423037 Publisher: Howling Wolf Creations Pub. Date: 25 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Season of the Vigilante, Book One: The Bloody Season by Kirby Jonas ISBN: 1891423045 Publisher: Howling Wolf Creations Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Devil's Blood by Kirby Jonas ISBN: 189142307X Publisher: Howling Wolf Creations Pub. Date: 19 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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