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Title: The Pistoleer by James Carlos Blake ISBN: 0-425-15412-2 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Tin Horn Mike
Comment: This was some book ! Absolutely outstanding in every respect - as a story, in its style, very exciting, excellent dialect, really funny in spots, ..... Chapter by chapter I went from hating the arrogant ... (John Wesley Hardin), to wanting to be a Hardin. If he really was as portrayed in this book (which I doubt), he was mostly the kind of person I respect - leave him alone and he'll buy you drinks all night long and otherwise give you the shirt off his back. Meddle in his business, get in his face, or harm his family and he'll whip you or kill you. Now don't get me wrong. Any reader would try to see where they fit in, in that day and time and I am pretty much left with the sad conclusion that I would have probably been a sorry, boot-licking peddler of some kind . . . . not a Hardin.
Rating: 2
Summary: Intelligent, but too cold for me
Comment: This book is written in installments: first-person narratives by people who know the main character. Most of them are only a few pages long, and few of the narrators repeat. Thus, it's impossible to really sympathize with any of them. The main character himself, gunslinger John Wesley Hardin, is hard to like: we never get into his head, and from the outside he looks like just another gangster. The reader sympathizes briefly when he's wounded and imprisoned, only to be put off when he commits his next act of mindless violence or drunken stupidity. The post-Civil War American West, as presented by the author, whacks the reader over the head with violence, lawlessness, and what I felt were rather gratuitous scenes of sex with prostitutes. I'm all for "gritty" historical fiction, but here it sometimes seemed like the author was just trying to show off. Without emotional content, grit is just an irritant. Having said all that, the book is intelligently written and apparently well researched, and it might be somebody else's cup of tea more than it is mine.
Rating: 4
Summary: What Makes the American West Like Nothing Else
Comment: There was nothing like the American West in the history of the world and figures like Hardin exemplify it; deadly, brave, sad and foolish all at once. His death seemed a relief because by 1895 there was no place left for the bravado of a gunslinger who would draw over an insult.
I found the writing format, the telling through other's eyes, less engaging and certainly less tasty than Blake's current style.
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Title: In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake ISBN: 0380792419 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.50 |
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Title: The Friends of Pancho Villa: A Novel by James Carlos Blake ISBN: 0425153045 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Borderlands: Short Fictions by James Carlos Blake ISBN: 0380794853 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: A World of Thieves : A Novel by James Carlos Blake ISBN: 0060512474 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Under the Skin : A Novel by James Carlos Blake ISBN: 0380977516 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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