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Sagebrush (2010)

by William Wayne Dicksion(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

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Romance

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William Wayne "Bill" Dicksion, via Smashwords

review 1: There are so many editions of this book that it's hard to know whether I picked the right one. At least they are merged here in terms of reviews, unlike Amazon, where there are several separately rated variants and it took me forever to find the one it actually recognized I had downloaded.I gave up at 34% and no way I am wasting another moment on it.I started this one late at night when I couldn't sleep. And it made me mad so many times. First off, the writing is awkward. Then we get the absolute ridiculousness of the story line and the excessive repetitiveness of the way it is presented. The boy is made into some sort of superhero for whom nothing every goes wrong. His successes are all a little too convenient.How ridiculous it was got really obvious when it had him tann... moreing an entire mountain line hide (including using the head as a hat) and turning it into a wearable garment IN A FEW DAYS! Then he gets out amongst a friendly tribe of Indians and it keeps saying he was better than them at everything. It had him teaching an Indian maiden how to forage for food and her admiring him for being better than her entire tribe.... It is just so insanely idiotic to think that a boy after 6 years ALONE in the wilderness has learned techniques that exceed the natives--techniques that aren't reliant on technology Indians didn't have (he used STICKS). He also managed to stumble onto a tribe that had never seen whites and never seen metal? It also acts like the entire concept of a knife is new, although they would have had flint knives that are plenty effective tools for what he is doing with the metal one.And he MAKES a wagon spring into a fancy sharp knife for her in his cave.... Nope, I didn't fall for it. It mostly just made me mad about how offensively it treated Native Americans. Then he manages to kill 4 notorious Comanche warriors, whom he was able to recognize easily despite only seeing them briefly 6 years earlier (and all of whom had ridiculously obvious identifying marks that he found as a kid...).I should also mention that he didn't consider himself an adult until he was 18?? How modern is that idea!! It was quite normal then for boys to be considered a man significantly younger, especially if managing on their own. He'd have been considered a man after only a year or two. So why would he continue to hide out for 6 YEARS before doing anything?? And I'm supposed to believe that the granddaughter is losing her land and his father was supposed to go save her in a hurry and yet it's still going to be there for him to save more 6 years later?I wanted to throw the book away several times while reading. And now that it's a new day, there is NO way I am forcing myself to go back and read more. I don't recommend this book to anyone. I really doubt the "newer" versions managed to edit out all these issues! It would be an entirely different book in that case, so why would the author rerelease it with the same name (knowing he had scathing reviews already) if he made it into a new book?
review 2: There is actually the skeleton of a good story embedded in this book, and that is what kept me reading. It makes me wonder if this is one of the author's early works. The main character never makes a mistake that sets him back, which is actually quite amazing since he must survive in Indian teritory by himself from the age of 12. Even Brian in Hatchet made mistakes that nearly cost him is life, and that was for a much shorter time period! less

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