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Title: Horseman by MIKE NICOL ISBN: 0-679-76039-3 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: ALL IN ALL I WAS PLEASED I DID NOT BUY THIS ONE
Comment: I am not sure why I picked this one up at the library, not sure why I started it, and am really not sure why I finished it. I am a "OPS Junkie" (other people's syntax) and that is really the only thing that kinda-sorta kept me hooked I suppose. Call me stupid or dull, but I just did not "get" half of what the author was attempting???? I always hate to give a low rating to any book, because I know what effort goes into writing anything, and even with the really bad ones, I sort of feel sorry for the author, but in this case, it was almost as if the author went out of his way to be vague, gross, etc. Perhaps the author made too much of an effort to the Artsie. I am not real sure where the publisher was while all this was going on.
Rating: 1
Summary: Dirty, scabby characters in an ugly world
Comment: I don't give many one-star reviews... Nicols misses no opportunity to endow his characters with bad breath, crusty nostrils, dirty teeth and any other repulsive characteristic imaginable, all of it described in loving detail. They wander through a nightmarish world of violence, poverty and sickness, both suffering and inflicting suffering on others, all told in a psuedo-literary style that is intended to signal us that something Frightfully Important is being related. Don't bother with it.
Rating: 1
Summary: A vastly inferior Blood Meridian
Comment: You know what this comes across as? It's as if Mr. Nicol read Cormac McCarthy's tremendous work and thought it was the coolest thing in the world, and set out to rewrite it in a new setting. His scenes, language and style seem lifted straight from McCarthy's pages, but he can't even come close to capturing the essence of regeneration through violence. That's not to say that such was Nicol's goal, because a goal is not apparent. This is a work of drivel that proceeds in jerks and spasms, and offers nothing to the literary world. Well, there is ONE good thing about it, and that is its length. Even at 200 pages, though, it's hard to get through. Why waste precious days reading this when there's so much else out there?
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