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G.P. Putnam's Sons (2006), Edition: Illustrated, 320 pages
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When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary-one who raises the stakes by playing not with the rules, but with emotions.
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LibraryThing member DeltaQueen50
Really good western novels are few and far between. Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker can join that rare breed as it more than exceeded my expectations. Good story, original and interesting characters, a place setting that helped define the book.
The small town of Appaloosa needed help in dealing with a
I have seen the excellent movie that has been made from this book and I had a hard time divorcing myself from the movie characters while I read this book. Although picturing Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen is not exactly a hardship. One of my favorite things in this book is the dialogue, sparse yet full of prose, it positively rolls off the tongue.
If you are in the mood for a straight forward, adventuresome western yarn, Appaloosa is the real deal.
The small town of Appaloosa needed help in dealing with a
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ruthless rancher and his hired guns. They found what they needed when Virgil Cole and his assistant Everett Hitch ride in town. Cleaning up towns is their specialty. Yes, the plot is familiar but Robert Parker manages to put his own twist on events. He also adds a few bumps in road for Cole and Hitch, especially in the person of Allie French, a woman of mystery that Cole takes up with.I have seen the excellent movie that has been made from this book and I had a hard time divorcing myself from the movie characters while I read this book. Although picturing Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen is not exactly a hardship. One of my favorite things in this book is the dialogue, sparse yet full of prose, it positively rolls off the tongue.
If you are in the mood for a straight forward, adventuresome western yarn, Appaloosa is the real deal.
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LibraryThing member AnnieMod
Robert B. Parker is known for his detective novels - his interconnected Boston (and the region) based series have more of 50 books between them (and all 3 series had been continued after his death). But in his standalone novels he explored almost every genre (except for speculative fiction) -
Meet Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch - lawmen in the Wild West who travel around the country and take the law in their hands (legally) when things go especially bad. And in the town of Appaloosa they had - a local land owner had been terrorizing everyone (the novel opens with a horrific scene of violence) and anyone who has anything against it gets killed - including the old lawman. So the town calls our guys and they set to solving the problem - in their way.
The story is told by Everett Hitch - the helper to the much more ruthless Virgil Cole. Which does not mean that Hitch is in any way innocent or that he does not kill. But Cole likes his guns and knows how to use them - and even when no gun is around, he can be violent, regardless of the propriety of the situation.
And then someone finds a way to almost disable Virgil - because he falls in love. Then things go badly -- for everyone besides the woman anyway...
It is a gunslinger novel but it is not just that. Somewhere under the deceptively easy prose which is the usual Parker style is hiding a whole world. If anything it is even better used here than in the Spenser series - the Boston of Spenser is known to the world so you back-fill some of the missing information; here you cannot and you do not need to. And despite the spare style there are the nature pictures and the Appaloosa stud and his mares, there are the people of a town somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
I had been listening to the surviving episodes of the radio version of Gunsmoke (most of them made it through time actually) and the world of Parker is very close to the world of Gunsmoke - I was even looking for parallels between the two. They are not the same ones, neither this later one is modeled on it. But they have the same feeling and the same deceptive simplicity that is anything but.
I am planning to continue with this series at least with the novels that Parker managed to finish (only 4) but if the other 3 series are any indication, I will probably decide to continue even with the authors who took the series and continued it after his death. And I probably should read more westerns...
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romance, crime, family sagas, westerns and sports were all covered. "Appaloosa" is not the first western that he wrote, fictionalized biographical novel of Wyatt Earp("Gunman's Rhapsody") had already proven than his style works for the genre. And this novel shows it even more - without the historical figures and the known story to support and be reinterpreted, Parker creates his own Wild West that is as alive as the real one. Meet Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch - lawmen in the Wild West who travel around the country and take the law in their hands (legally) when things go especially bad. And in the town of Appaloosa they had - a local land owner had been terrorizing everyone (the novel opens with a horrific scene of violence) and anyone who has anything against it gets killed - including the old lawman. So the town calls our guys and they set to solving the problem - in their way.
The story is told by Everett Hitch - the helper to the much more ruthless Virgil Cole. Which does not mean that Hitch is in any way innocent or that he does not kill. But Cole likes his guns and knows how to use them - and even when no gun is around, he can be violent, regardless of the propriety of the situation.
And then someone finds a way to almost disable Virgil - because he falls in love. Then things go badly -- for everyone besides the woman anyway...
It is a gunslinger novel but it is not just that. Somewhere under the deceptively easy prose which is the usual Parker style is hiding a whole world. If anything it is even better used here than in the Spenser series - the Boston of Spenser is known to the world so you back-fill some of the missing information; here you cannot and you do not need to. And despite the spare style there are the nature pictures and the Appaloosa stud and his mares, there are the people of a town somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
I had been listening to the surviving episodes of the radio version of Gunsmoke (most of them made it through time actually) and the world of Parker is very close to the world of Gunsmoke - I was even looking for parallels between the two. They are not the same ones, neither this later one is modeled on it. But they have the same feeling and the same deceptive simplicity that is anything but.
I am planning to continue with this series at least with the novels that Parker managed to finish (only 4) but if the other 3 series are any indication, I will probably decide to continue even with the authors who took the series and continued it after his death. And I probably should read more westerns...
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LibraryThing member barefootlibrarian
My first foray into the Western genre, and I really enjoyed it! I like Parker's style of writing and you can feel the tones of his Jesse Stone style here. Hitch is a fantastic character, likable and human without being too rough to relate too. Bragg is a great villain and I was pleasantly surprised
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by the twist with his thread. Personally, I find Allie French annoying and without redeeming qualities, and that doesn't change ever in the story. However, it didn't stop me from reading the next two in the series, and I plan to pick up the fourth, Blue Eyed Devil, as soon as it comes out in May. A good read, definitely worth checking out. Show Less
LibraryThing member hbsweet
Now I need to see the movie, AND read the other 2 books: "Resolution" and "Brimstone." Robert B. Parker's style lends itself to a Western beautifully.
"'Virgil,' I said,'I'm not minding it, but why are we up here, looking at these horses?'
'I like wild horses,' Cole said.
'Well, that's nice,
Action, humor, men of the gun who are also men of integrity and honor. And, of course, women: for Everett, "a clean, dark-haired young whore named Katie Goode"; and for Virgil, there is the fragile and faithless Allie French: "She was a little travel-worn, but still good-looking, with a strong young body that her dress didn't hide."
Allie is the Western version of Jesse Stone's obnoxious Jenn--thoough it's slightly more forgivable for a woman of the 1800s to sleep with "the stud horse," the alpha male, her next perceived meal ticket, as if she will be helpless without a male protector.
"'I'm scared all the time,' Allie said. '[...of]being alone, or being with the wrong man, having no money, no place to live. If I don't have a man, what am I supposed to do?'"
And because, for whatever reason, Virgil won't leave her, Everett does the only thing he can to protect his friend from the woman he loves.
"Then I went and hugged Cole, got on my horse, and rode past the marshall's office and out of town."
Even the last line has that perfect Western vibe to it:
"It was going to be a long ride, and there was no need to hurry."
"'Virgil,' I said,'I'm not minding it, but why are we up here, looking at these horses?'
'I like wild horses,' Cole said.
'Well, that's nice,
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Virgil.'"Action, humor, men of the gun who are also men of integrity and honor. And, of course, women: for Everett, "a clean, dark-haired young whore named Katie Goode"; and for Virgil, there is the fragile and faithless Allie French: "She was a little travel-worn, but still good-looking, with a strong young body that her dress didn't hide."
Allie is the Western version of Jesse Stone's obnoxious Jenn--thoough it's slightly more forgivable for a woman of the 1800s to sleep with "the stud horse," the alpha male, her next perceived meal ticket, as if she will be helpless without a male protector.
"'I'm scared all the time,' Allie said. '[...of]being alone, or being with the wrong man, having no money, no place to live. If I don't have a man, what am I supposed to do?'"
And because, for whatever reason, Virgil won't leave her, Everett does the only thing he can to protect his friend from the woman he loves.
"Then I went and hugged Cole, got on my horse, and rode past the marshall's office and out of town."
Even the last line has that perfect Western vibe to it:
"It was going to be a long ride, and there was no need to hurry."
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LibraryThing member Jthierer
I don't think I realized how incredibly similar the book and movie versions of this story were. I saw the movie in theaters when it came out, and I found myself recognizing dialogue and scenes that were taken almost verbatim from the book. For me, this added to my enjoyment of both because it gave
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me a visual reference for the book but also deepened the characters that I first encountered in the movie. Show Less
LibraryThing member Katymelrose
Westerns really aren't my thing, but I do like Robert B. Parker and my parents both recommended Appaloosa. I listened to it on audiobook. I enjoyed it, but it didn't blow me away and doesn't make me want to read more westerns. It was just okay for me, but I'm definitely not the target audience and
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I would think that fans of westerns would appreciate it. Show Less
LibraryThing member dickcraig
This was my first book I downloaded to my Kindle. I love the Parker novels for a quick read. This was the first one of his westerns I read. It is the usual Spencer storyline where a tough marshal and a reserved deputy try to clean up a lawless town. If you want a quick 2 hour read, this is good
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LibraryThing member level250geek
Fans of the Western will find nothing new here, but they won't find anything tired either. Resting comfortably in the boots of stock characters--the lawman, his partner, his woman, and his nemesis--and moving by a decent pace that sacrifices long, expository narrative for nimble dialogue, this book
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is a fun read that manages to be just deep and complex enough to welcome some post-reading thoughts. Shoot-outs are quick and clean, there's lots of coffee and whiskey, and all the characters--save for the truly villainous--are good to their word and believe in honest morals. It's a simple story, but one that we love because of its simplicity. Of course, as with all good stories, there are twists and turns, and one final twist complicates things in a pleasantly real way. Show Less
LibraryThing member thejazzmonger
The talented and imminently readable Robert B. Parker turns his hand to the Old West with satisfying results. The main characters are Virgil Cole, a fast and deadly gun hand, and Everett Hitch, his loyal deputy and sidekick. Their relationship, and subtle co-dependency, will remind long-time Parker
Virgil is the top hand, no doubt about that. He is the "keeper of the code" and the man whose prowess with a six-shooter is legendary. Everett is the educated one (West Point), with significant experience in the US Army and a devotee of his trusted 8-gauge shotgun.
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readers of Spenser and Hawk.Virgil is the top hand, no doubt about that. He is the "keeper of the code" and the man whose prowess with a six-shooter is legendary. Everett is the educated one (West Point), with significant experience in the US Army and a devotee of his trusted 8-gauge shotgun.
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LibraryThing member tajohnson
Slow story with entertaining bits of western action. Predictable story and the love drama between the characters was drawn out. I think the book would have been better if it was just lawmen against the badguys. The love story just slowed the book down and was a not needed dynamic for me in this
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LibraryThing member Brandon.Law
A fast-paced story with an excellent tale of friendship. Although I had already seen the 2008 major motion picture based on it, it did not ruin the book.
LibraryThing member JenJ.
Parker's writing is atmostpheric and spare. As usual, his male characters live by a code and tend towards introspection. I had a sense of impending doom throughout, perhaps because up to this point my main exposure to westerns was Shane. It was definitely interesting to listen to something in a
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genre I'm almost completely unfamiliar with, but I think I need to read or listen to more to get a better sense of whether this is more representative of Parker's style or the style of western's in general. Titus Welliver reading style suits both the genre and the book itself. Show Less
LibraryThing member Carl_Alves
Appaloosa is one of the best Western novels that I have read, and Robert Parker’s finest novel. The two principal characters, Virgil Cole and his deputy, Everett Hitch, who narrates the story, are two very well-rounded and likeable characters. Part of the reason that the novel really works is the
There are many things that make Apaloosa work, but what I liked most is the easy going narration style that really complements the mood and content of the novel. The prose is written professionally with few flaws. This is a quickly paced novel packed with plenty of action. Even if you are like me and don’t typically read Westerns, this one is well worth reading.
Carl Alves – author of Blood Street
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presence of these two characters. In this story, Cole and Hitch arrive in a new town where the resident bad guy, Randall Bragg, killed the previous marshal and deputy. After they arrest Bragg, he is tried and sentenced to be hanged. This leads up to a climactic gun fight where hired guns are trying to free Bragg. Meanwhile Cole falls for a high maintenance woman that Hitch knows is no good for him. When Bragg returns to town this sets up for a climactic and surprise ending.There are many things that make Apaloosa work, but what I liked most is the easy going narration style that really complements the mood and content of the novel. The prose is written professionally with few flaws. This is a quickly paced novel packed with plenty of action. Even if you are like me and don’t typically read Westerns, this one is well worth reading.
Carl Alves – author of Blood Street
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LibraryThing member fuzzi
I liked the characters, the situations, the dialogue, and that the story flowed right along. Despite a bit of profanity, I enjoyed it, and I plan to read more books by this author.
LibraryThing member RBeffa
This is a very fine western, something that rises quite a bit above standard fare. Virgil Cole can be a mean sonofabitch. He gets a bean up his ass and he's liable to beat the shit out of someone for no reason at all. I'm not too fond of that aspect of his character. However, he does try hard to be
The story is told in an easy to read style that manages to display some fine writing. The basic story is a familiar one. Bad guys rule a small town. Someone needs to clean it up. A woman manages to get in the way of things. Parker handles the familiar elements very well. I think what makes this a very fine novel is that it is about a friendship and what that friendship means and the sacrifice that a friend will make when it is needed.
I remember when I saw the film a few years ago that I thought I should read the book. I am glad I did.
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a good guy, a town marshall when one is needed. Not too many people can do what he does. The story is told by his "assistant" Everett Hitch. Hitch is a keen observer.The story is told in an easy to read style that manages to display some fine writing. The basic story is a familiar one. Bad guys rule a small town. Someone needs to clean it up. A woman manages to get in the way of things. Parker handles the familiar elements very well. I think what makes this a very fine novel is that it is about a friendship and what that friendship means and the sacrifice that a friend will make when it is needed.
I remember when I saw the film a few years ago that I thought I should read the book. I am glad I did.
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LibraryThing member feralcatbob
The style is the same as in Parker's Spenser series with terse, to-the-point dialoge from the main characters. The two main characters are reminicient of Hawk and "Hawk-Lite". This was an enjoyable read. Definately a "guys" book. The ending was pleasently not a "standard" type ending but given the
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LibraryThing member rosalita
NOTE: This review applies to all four books written by Robert B. Parker.
I've read all of Parker's Spenser series featuring a private eye in Boston, but I'd never tackled his series of Westerns despite being a fan of the genre. I'm really glad I did! These are some of the best books I've read this
The series revolves around Virgil Cole, a legendary gunfighter, and his sidekick Everett Hitch, who narrates the books. In Appaloosa, Cole and Hitch end up in the town of the book's title and become the town marshals. What ensues is classic Western: a fight with a corrupt rancher, a doomed romance with a woman of questionable repute, and a final climactic showdown that sends the pair of lawmen on their separate paths, though with no animosity between them.
Resolution is the town that Hitch washes up in after he and Cole part, where he finds work as a saloon bouncer and ends up being the town's de facto marshal. Things get complicated quickly, and his old buddy Cole shows up just in time to help him get the best of the bad guys.
Brimstone is the next town on the duo's journey. They are back together and searching for Allie, the wayward woman who snared Cole in the first book, only to prove less than stalwart. They find Allie, and Cole sets out to learn whether he can forgive her trespasses. Meanwhile, he and Hitch try to head off trouble between a corrupt saloon owner and a fiery evangelist preacher.
Blue-Eyed Devil is the final book in the series, and finds the Cole/Hitch duo back in Appaloosa, the setting of the first book. Along for the ride are Allie and a young orphaned, traumatized teenager who will only talk to Cole. As if that wasn't enough trouble for one gunman, he and Hitch also have to contend with the new marshal in town and his 12-man posse and renegade Indians.
I've read all of Parker's Spenser series featuring a private eye in Boston, but I'd never tackled his series of Westerns despite being a fan of the genre. I'm really glad I did! These are some of the best books I've read this
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year.The series revolves around Virgil Cole, a legendary gunfighter, and his sidekick Everett Hitch, who narrates the books. In Appaloosa, Cole and Hitch end up in the town of the book's title and become the town marshals. What ensues is classic Western: a fight with a corrupt rancher, a doomed romance with a woman of questionable repute, and a final climactic showdown that sends the pair of lawmen on their separate paths, though with no animosity between them.
Resolution is the town that Hitch washes up in after he and Cole part, where he finds work as a saloon bouncer and ends up being the town's de facto marshal. Things get complicated quickly, and his old buddy Cole shows up just in time to help him get the best of the bad guys.
Brimstone is the next town on the duo's journey. They are back together and searching for Allie, the wayward woman who snared Cole in the first book, only to prove less than stalwart. They find Allie, and Cole sets out to learn whether he can forgive her trespasses. Meanwhile, he and Hitch try to head off trouble between a corrupt saloon owner and a fiery evangelist preacher.
Blue-Eyed Devil is the final book in the series, and finds the Cole/Hitch duo back in Appaloosa, the setting of the first book. Along for the ride are Allie and a young orphaned, traumatized teenager who will only talk to Cole. As if that wasn't enough trouble for one gunman, he and Hitch also have to contend with the new marshal in town and his 12-man posse and renegade Indians.
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LibraryThing member Susini
APPALOOSA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2011
This is a beautifully written book. Its simplicity is astounding. Dialogue led, it is narrated through the words of Everett Hitch who met up with his gun slinging buddy Virgil Cole fifteen years earlier during a shoot out. And shooting it out with rogues, rascals
I am not a Western fan. I long opted to look down my nose at them. Even in jail as a 16 year old I would cast them to the side as I foraged through the bookshelf that sat in the middle of A Wing Crumlin Road Prison along the wall closest to the main road. Before I made it to my teens I would read Pocomoto but never found the storyline stimulating. In 1982 a jail friend, Pat Livingstone, told me to read JT Edson, but only for a laugh. Big Liv claimed Edson was an English postman who had never been to America in his life and wouldn’t know what a cowboy looked like. Yet, here he was, an accomplished novelist in the Western genre. Seemingly it didn’t take much to make the grade.
I don’t think I took his advice, so never went to the bother of finding anything out about Edson but recall at some point reading a brace of Louis L’Amour books. Apart from allowing me to while away an hour or two they failed to cut the mustard in any real sense. They were hardly books that would have me racing to the cell in anticipation of the night time lock up.
During the blanket protest had Westerns been available I would have read them. Any port in a storm as the saying goes, well apart from the port bible. That was one destination I was not bound for, regardless of the tedium induced by the otherwise total dearth of reading material. I guess the Christians who took such delight in torturing us must have felt that with a literally captive audience in their grasp we would have no option but to read their silly book and stupid mini comics with their graphic depictions of hell. I have succumbed to many wrongs in life but the bible is not amongst them.
In spite of my general aversion to the genre a Western remains one of my all time favourite books, Shane by Jack Schaefer. That remains the unsurpassed Western both on screen and in print.
I had already watched the film Appaloosa featuring Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen and was more than just impressed by it. It is normally reliable advice to never judge a book by its movie, so many films failing to live up to the promise of the book. This is an exception. When my wife suggested I read the book I didn’t hesitate. I began it at Drogheda on a bus on the way to Belfast. By the time I had arrived at Dublin Airport on my return journey I had it finished.
Some readers have cast doubt on the ability of an East Coast Bostonian to write Westerns. In this I am reminded of Michael Manley’s scathing criticism of a Caribbean writer describing snow falling in his face, something he had never experienced. Yet if JT Edson, Big Liv’s English postie, can try his hand then Parker has some claim.
Bragg is the typical bully of the western genre. The quintessential baddie he is to be found in every walk of life. His men shoot dead a townsman and rape the victim’s wife. The sheriff is shot dead by Bragg investigating. Cole and Hitch are hired to bring Bragg in. There is a sense that both Cole and Hitch fit one of Orwell’s characterisations of people: they want to be good but not too good and not all the time.
Cole, in love with the promiscuous Allie French, is concerned at her waywardness but never so concerned as to be distracted or have his deadly aim diverted. Bragg’s fatal mistake might have been less in shooting the sheriff but in jumping into Allie’s bed.
Even if the end is somewhat predictable the real joy of this is to be acquired from simply reading the plot.
Robert B Parker, 2010, Appaloosa. Corvus: UK. ISBN-13: 978-1848873438
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2011
This is a beautifully written book. Its simplicity is astounding. Dialogue led, it is narrated through the words of Everett Hitch who met up with his gun slinging buddy Virgil Cole fifteen years earlier during a shoot out. And shooting it out with rogues, rascals
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and villains is how they made their living since. Depriving others of any living in order to make a living is for many the way of the world. I am not a Western fan. I long opted to look down my nose at them. Even in jail as a 16 year old I would cast them to the side as I foraged through the bookshelf that sat in the middle of A Wing Crumlin Road Prison along the wall closest to the main road. Before I made it to my teens I would read Pocomoto but never found the storyline stimulating. In 1982 a jail friend, Pat Livingstone, told me to read JT Edson, but only for a laugh. Big Liv claimed Edson was an English postman who had never been to America in his life and wouldn’t know what a cowboy looked like. Yet, here he was, an accomplished novelist in the Western genre. Seemingly it didn’t take much to make the grade.
I don’t think I took his advice, so never went to the bother of finding anything out about Edson but recall at some point reading a brace of Louis L’Amour books. Apart from allowing me to while away an hour or two they failed to cut the mustard in any real sense. They were hardly books that would have me racing to the cell in anticipation of the night time lock up.
During the blanket protest had Westerns been available I would have read them. Any port in a storm as the saying goes, well apart from the port bible. That was one destination I was not bound for, regardless of the tedium induced by the otherwise total dearth of reading material. I guess the Christians who took such delight in torturing us must have felt that with a literally captive audience in their grasp we would have no option but to read their silly book and stupid mini comics with their graphic depictions of hell. I have succumbed to many wrongs in life but the bible is not amongst them.
In spite of my general aversion to the genre a Western remains one of my all time favourite books, Shane by Jack Schaefer. That remains the unsurpassed Western both on screen and in print.
I had already watched the film Appaloosa featuring Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen and was more than just impressed by it. It is normally reliable advice to never judge a book by its movie, so many films failing to live up to the promise of the book. This is an exception. When my wife suggested I read the book I didn’t hesitate. I began it at Drogheda on a bus on the way to Belfast. By the time I had arrived at Dublin Airport on my return journey I had it finished.
Some readers have cast doubt on the ability of an East Coast Bostonian to write Westerns. In this I am reminded of Michael Manley’s scathing criticism of a Caribbean writer describing snow falling in his face, something he had never experienced. Yet if JT Edson, Big Liv’s English postie, can try his hand then Parker has some claim.
Bragg is the typical bully of the western genre. The quintessential baddie he is to be found in every walk of life. His men shoot dead a townsman and rape the victim’s wife. The sheriff is shot dead by Bragg investigating. Cole and Hitch are hired to bring Bragg in. There is a sense that both Cole and Hitch fit one of Orwell’s characterisations of people: they want to be good but not too good and not all the time.
Cole, in love with the promiscuous Allie French, is concerned at her waywardness but never so concerned as to be distracted or have his deadly aim diverted. Bragg’s fatal mistake might have been less in shooting the sheriff but in jumping into Allie’s bed.
Even if the end is somewhat predictable the real joy of this is to be acquired from simply reading the plot.
Robert B Parker, 2010, Appaloosa. Corvus: UK. ISBN-13: 978-1848873438
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LibraryThing member bookheaven
I love a good western and this one fit the bill. It had all the necessary ingredients: American Indians, femme fatale, gunfights, long treks across the wilderness, strong, silent hero. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
LibraryThing member mahsdad
(AUDIO). A classic western story. Bad-ass sheriff and his trusty side-kick come into a lawless town to protect the citizens from the evil robber baron wanting to take over the town. The hero isn't necessarily a white-hat hero, he's not above shooting first and asking questions later. His life is
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complicated by his cowboy lifestyle and his new love for the beautiful local widow. Classic, pretty good short read. Show Less
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2005
Physical description
6.8 inches
ISBN
9780425204320