Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

“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 |

Where the Devil’s Always Watching

The Cold Eye by Laura Anne Gilman

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East of the Mississippi and as far west as they eye can see, right up until you hit the mountains themselves, is the Devil’s territory. And he protects his own.

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1/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:3 |

You have forgotten the face of your father.

The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3) by Stephen King

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It’s so funny, as I’m reading this series for the first time, to see the (very) polarizing opinions about each book. One person gives it up after the first thirty pages of the first book because it’s so fucking weird, the next wants to read all of them in a mad, passionate frenzy. One person thinks book two is the greatest (me), another thinks it’s boring as shit (an opinion I can’t understand). Yet another counts this here book as their favorite and reviles book four. Etc, etc. I find this fascinating, and for me, it’s evidence that King has a […]

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1/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

I think I love this series.

The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2) by Stephen King

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I wrote my initial little placeholder review where I promised to have a full review up for this book by the afternoon approximately five minutes before I learned that Carrie Fisher had died, and to be up front about it, that news has completely done a wampus on my head, and the review I’d been planning on writing is now not going to happen, because my brain just wants to be sad right now. I don’t know what I’m about to write about this crazy book. In many ways, this book is about addiction, but it’s also about finding redemption […]

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12/31/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:171 |

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