Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Gonna Leave This in The Desert

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

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I think before I start this review I need to begin with two disclaimers. The first, I’m not a fan of Stephen King. I’ve read a couple of his books and they just doesn’t wow me. I don’t hate his books, but I don’t really read them unless they’re one of the few choices in some beach rental and I’ve forgotten any other reading material. To give you an idea, I stopped reading Salem’s Lot about halfway through because I got bored and didn’t feel like slogging through the resto of the book to get to the plot. My other […]

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8/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:72 |

On The Backbone of the World, Beneath the Large Sky, You Will Find Your Name

Fools Crow by James Welch

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I don’t know why I bring books to my parent’s house, I never lack for reading material when I go visit. My dad handed me Fools Crow this past trip and told me I should read it, so like any book lover I immediately started reading it. It is very good. It’s not an easy book, and I’m sure there are a lot of things that a more close reading could tease out it, but I really enjoyed it. The book is one that I suggest you take your time with, it’s dense reading and I think if you blow […]

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7/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:56 |

Little House on the Prairie meets the Oregon trail

Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson

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3.5 stars Leah “Lee” Westfall lives on a small farm in Georgia, trying to make ends meet with her parents. The only reason they’re really managing to survive at all, is Lee’s unusual ability, she can sense gold. It calls to her and is the reason her father is known in town as “Lucky”. No one but her parents know about her gift, or so Lee believed. Then she comes home from town one day to discover both of her parents shot (her mother is still just barely alive, and warns Leah to be careful with her last breaths) and […]

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7/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:64 |

“And how many times have I prayed, that I would get lost along the way.”

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

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  Coincidentally, I started reading this book the day the movie trailer dropped. I first read The Gunslinger as a twelve year old who was blazing my way through Stephen King’s works. Like many preteens, I was overly fascinated with sex and violence but had no real appreciation of the consequences of either. I did not care for this book at the time. It was too abstract and had the feel of the old westerns that my dad and grandpa favored, which I studiously avoided as “old guy stuff.” As an adult, I recognize that The Gunslinger is a cut […]

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6/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:20 |

Western Weird and Wild

Lawless Lands: Tales from the Weird Frontier by Emily Lavin Leverett, Misty Massey, & Margaret S. McGraw

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I really like the western genre, and the genre subdivision weird western, so when MsWas sent an email offering this collection of short stories I jumped on it. This book has been on my radar for a while, and I was super excited to read it. Overall, I quite liked it and found it to be a pretty good collection. Not all stories fell into my personal preference, but they were mostly fairly enjoyable. I wasn’t as fond of the stories with a science fiction bent, as I thought that the western affiliation of those stories was a stretch, but […]

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5/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:43 |

Welcome to Westworld

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

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Sometimes when reading a Cormac McCarthy novel I can’t help but wonder what kind of man he is, what kind of man would create such bleak and miserable worlds? This is pointless since I know from his biography that he is to all appearances a genial and downright nice human being. And perhaps writing books like this helps him in that regard, serves as a form of exorcism, his demons expelled onto paper allowing him go on living peacefully. But these are just  useless random thoughts, the sort that float up when reading McCarthy. The book tells the tale of […]

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4/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

The Corrupting Effects of Sivilization

Huck Out West by Robert Coover

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Do you remember how the last third of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn made you hate Tom Sawyer? Well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Robert Coover takes Mark Twain’s iconic characters, ages them about 30 years, places them in Deadwood just before America’s centennial, and uses them to expose the ignorance, violence and cruelty at the heart of America’s westward expansion. If The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was mostly an adventure story for boys, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a story of the loss of innocence, Huck Out West depicts innocence as being trampled over and over again. Coover […]

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2/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:5 |

I don’t know if I liked the book or not, but I’d definitely see the movie.

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

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Sometimes, when you read a book, you can’t help but picture the story in your head, almost as if it were a movie. And sometimes, you get the feeling that a book was pretty much written so that it could eventually become a movie. That’s not a knock against the writers who produce books like that really. I just feel like some books are written so that they can someday be watched instead of read. And I fell like The Sisters Brothers is one of those books. So evocative of a specific time and place in our world, I could […]

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1/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

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