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Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2005-06-07
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Studio: Putnam Adult
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A richly imagined novel of the Old West, as spare and vivid as a high plains sunset, from one of the world's most talented performers.
It was a long time ago, now, and there were many gunfights to follow, but I remember as well as I remember anything the first time I saw Virgil Cole shoot. Time slowed down for him. Always steady, and never fast . . .
When it comes to writing, Robert B. Parker knows no boundaries. From the iconic Spenser detective series and the novels featuring Sunny Randall and Jesse Stone, to the groundbreaking historical novel Double Play, Parker's imagination has taken readers from Boston to Brooklyn and back again. In Appaloosa, fans are taken on another trip, to the untamed territories of the West during the 1800s.
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.
This is Robert B. Parker at his storytelling best.
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Summary: Appaloosa
Comment: The book is an exact match of the movie. Hitch is a the storyteller in the third person. Cole is the main character and Hitch is Cole's partner.
Cole and Hitch are lawmen for hire with a strict code made of Cole's laws.
Cole is attracted to Mrs. French (Allie) after she came to the town of Appaloosa. It turns out that Allie is attracted to Cole because he is the top person in town. Her attractions change if another accends to the top.
A conflict develops with Bragg over Allie that Hitch settles for Cole by challenging Bragg to a gunfight. Hitch does not want his friend hurt in the relationship with Allie. In so doing , Hitch violates the code and leaves Appaloosa.
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Summary: Fine Western
Comment: I am not a great Western fan, however, reading about the new movie with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen, based on Robert B. Parker's novel, I had to check out the book; and I was not disappointed. The characters were developed and drew me straight into the story. The storyline, while predictable, was always engaging. Best of all were the dialogs between Hitch and Virgil, sparse yet utterly entertaining.
The subtraction of one star is for the somewhat disappointing and strange ending.
Although the movie was quite enjoyable, it did not do the book justice. If you have only seen the movie, buy or borrow the book and read it. You should not be disappointed.
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Summary: The Western Returns!
Comment: "Appaloosa" Reminds you of those Saturday Matinees with Randolph Scott shooting it out with the bad guys in the Saloon and the Good Guy gets the girl. Yet it's not all black and white. The good guys have flaws as well, it makes them human.
Parker puts good and bad on a western canvas colored with frailty.
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Summary: Eye Candy
Comment: This easy reading book made a recent trans-ocean flight fly by (no pun intended). Falls into my "Eye Candy" category. Easy to read, occupies a few hours and no expectations for great lit, but decent writing. Great book for vacation reading.
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Summary: Appaloosa
Comment: This book is enjoyable for the Western book fan. Robert B. Parker captures the period as if he time-traveled from there. Men were men, a no nonsense approach to life. This is the perfect western, second only to Gunman's Rhapsody, another book of his.
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