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The Start of King’s Best Books

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

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Apparently lots of people who like The Dark Tower series don’t like this book, and I really don’t understand that. I love the whole series enough to have a tattoo from it, Song of Susannah is clearly the weakest of the books, and The Gunslinger is some of King’s best writing, ever. The exact criticism I hear of it, that it’s a western and not a horror, is what I think allows it to be so great, because it allows King to break from his own conventions and focus on prose instead of story. Thing about it: King writes great […]

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7/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

What an awful trail! Did you carry me up here?

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

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This book is one of those quintessential Western genre books that helped kind of set the tone of what we know about them now. It’s not the first, as the Westerns we know began before the “West” was the “West” and it’s not even the earliest, clearest example either, as Owen Wister’s The Virginian came out about ten years earlier. But it was widely popular, set up and/or explored numerous familiar tropes, and presented all of it in a clear, concise voice. The story here involves a cattle ranch in Utah. The daughter of a rancher now dead finds herself […]

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3/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:121 |

The More Things Change & The Weird Wild West

How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ

Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman

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The last two-book review I wrote was compare and contrast, because the material in each book related to the other book. This time, not so much: one is non-fiction, and one is fiction, and without performing some mental calisthenics at a level I’m not willing to do right now I don’t think I could write a unified review. 

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1/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

Demons, and the Devil — Book Exchange!

Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman

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Came home to a nice package in my mailbox, and these two lovely gifts from Malin! I might already have started reading Silver in the Road last night before deciding I should put it away so I could, you know. Sleep. And the Picture of Dorian Grey is probably my favorite thing Oscar Wilde wrote, so Creatures of Will and Temper looks to be an interesting re-imagining. Thank you, Malin!

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12/13/2018 's CBR10 Review No:0 |

Less lust, more explanations, please

The Arrivals by Melissa Marr

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This was more cheesy romance than I expected in my sci-fi western, but it ended up being pretty enjoyable. A group of people from various time periods in the “real” world have woken up randomly in the Wasteland. The Wasteland is full of monsters and not-quite-humans and some creatures sort of like vampires, and one bad dude named Ajani, who is trying to take over. The Arrivals (the folks from our world) don’t know why they’re there or how they got there, but over the years, they’ve banded together, live in the desert in a cowboy camp, and fight Ajani […]

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12/11/2018 's CBR10 Review No:26 |

This Book Could Have Been Any Number of Bingo Squares (CBR10Bingo)

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

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I have an enormous backlog. My Goodreads account tells me as of today, I have 649 books on my Want to Read shelf. I still have 62 that I added on the day I joined, January 6, 2012 during my first year participating in Cannonball Read 4. What better book to knock off the Backlog square than something I was introduced to in my first week of Cannonball Read and has been languishing for more than six years on Mount TBR (and has a movie adaptation coming out later this month). The Sisters Brothers of the story are Charlie and […]

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9/9/2018 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

Happiness is a warm gun

Mistborn Era 2: Wax and Wayne Series by Brandon Sanderson

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The last time I reviewed a Brandon Sanderson book, I complained of Sanderson fatigue, the review got featured, and several more people complained about it with me. So it is a bit sheepishly that I confess I not only went back to him but that I read the entire second Mistborn series minus the one book that hasn’t been published yet. And I enjoyed them immensely. In fact, for someone like me who still had fond memories of earlier Cosmere experiences, The Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, and The Bands of Mourning were perfect way to pull me back […]

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7/5/2018 's CBR10 Review No:10 |

Don’t Expect Logical Actions from Racists

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

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Thank you so much to caitycat! I doubt I would have stumbled across this novel without her review, and I thoroughly enjoyed it despite some minor complaints about potential red herrings or loose threads. The novel is set near Baltimore in 1880.  The North never won the Civil War because of the zombie outbreak that followed the Battle of Gettysburg, leading to a quick reconciliation between the two sides to face the common threat to the survival of humanity.  Slaves were declared free, but, for many, there is not much difference between their former lives and current – they don’t […]

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6/18/2018 's CBR10 Review No:112 |


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