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Far Bright Star (2009)

by Robert Olmstead(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1565125924 (ISBN13: 9781565125926)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Algonquin Books

review 1: Napoleon Childs is a tough, laconic, old cavalryman. He leads a patrol of young men after Villa's forces in late 1916 Mexico. His patrol is ambushed, and all but Childs die. He walks back across the desert, reflecting on his life, his career, and his losses. Being terse and laconic, being not a reflective person by nature, his musings are not particularly insightful. That lack is the novel's chief weakness, good as Olmstead is. Childs is resigned to the life he has led (or followed), which makes his receiving orders for France upon returning from his ordeal in the desert just one more occasion for resignation.
review 2: This book was god awful. I read it on a backpacking trip and ended up throwing it in the fire to conserve weight. If you want to read a good w... moreestern read ANY of Cormac Mccarthy's novels. This is clearly a rip of of McCarthy's work. Authors thought's: "hey im going to do something that people have never seen before... write a western with brutal voilence, and not a lot of punctuation for simplicity..." OH WAIT CORMAC MCCARTHY HAS BEEN DOING THAT FOR YEARS. Save your self time and money and dont read this garbage less

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