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I'll be jumping into it sometime this week. It's been praised along this forum for a long time and this seems like the perfect excuse to stop putting it off.
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One thing that kind of throws me off is the switching between Goodpasture's diaries and omniscient third-person narration; I figure he's doing the former for time-skips but it seems a bit of a wasted opportunity - at some points, the third-person descriptions feel really sterile and clinical.
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Jul 21, 2018 12:35
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I like the unreliable narrators; it makes me wish he used them for the whole thing. For example I really liked the way the shootout at the O.K. Corral was handled - statements from people you know have ulterior motives for lying make all the townsfolk's various prejudices and explanations of the whole thing have much more weight since no one really knows what happened and who shot whom first. It's the third-person stuff I'm kind of disappointed with, makes me feel the whole story would be much better if we were to doubt everyone's accounts; after all, events growing into story growing into legend and truth disappearing along the way appear to be a theme here.
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Jul 24, 2018 20:09
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Okay, I admit I did not expect to read a Western about capitalism shafting the working class. Are Hall's other two cowboy books worth reading?
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Jul 29, 2018 13:46
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It's also interesting to see the characters interact with their own legends; I particularly enjoyed Morgan's "Black Rattlesnake" bits. All in all I think Morgan was my favorite rear end in a top hat of the bunch.
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Jul 30, 2018 22:32
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