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csdaley's review against another edition
2.0
A bittersweet end to my last novel that I will ever read by Robert Parker. It is about a 2.5 star book but honestly I only read it because I wanted to read Parker and it was quick. I’ll probably try the continuation of the series written by another writer because I like the characters but there really wasn’t much of a book here.
kim_hoag's review against another edition
4.0
Parker's books on Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are a great unguilty pleasure of mine. This is one of the better books, too. It has a more complicated plot than usual which added to both the length and my pleasure. Why do I like these books so? Certainly the plots are usually more on the simple side, and the characters, as well.
My enjoyment of the read centers on the friendship between the two main characters and their constant laconic and pithy discourse. In this 4th book their philosophical dialogue ranges between the ironic switch of good and bad roles, the feelings around killing, love, and much more. All presented in a sparse, sometimes humorous exchange between the two. I love these two! It may not be great literature, but it is among the most fun.
My enjoyment of the read centers on the friendship between the two main characters and their constant laconic and pithy discourse. In this 4th book their philosophical dialogue ranges between the ironic switch of good and bad roles, the feelings around killing, love, and much more. All presented in a sparse, sometimes humorous exchange between the two. I love these two! It may not be great literature, but it is among the most fun.
cheriekg's review against another edition
4.0
This is classic Parker: men living by clear, unwritten codes of violent nobility, straightforward confrontations, ambiguous female characters in the background, tight dialogue. Short, gripping, funny, and wonderful. As an aside, this is the first Parker audiobook I've tried and I fear it doesn't translate well. His choppy dialogue feels jarring read aloud.
[Edited 9/21/15 I later went back and read the book version to complete my read of Virgil Cole series. As I expected, the dialogue translates much better on the page. Virgil and Everett are among my favorite Parker creations. I'm not sure if I want to keep reading the series as written by others, however.]
[Edited 9/21/15 I later went back and read the book version to complete my read of Virgil Cole series. As I expected, the dialogue translates much better on the page. Virgil and Everett are among my favorite Parker creations. I'm not sure if I want to keep reading the series as written by others, however.]
felinehex's review against another edition
4.0
listening to westerns while I drive calms the cat. (I summer in wa)
and these are REALLY interesting!
and these are REALLY interesting!
birdmanseven's review against another edition
3.0
This doesn't live up to the original, but still a decent western.
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intermittent_reader's review against another edition
4.0
Fun buddy western. When I grabbed the back of this book I didn't realize that the movie Appaloosa was based on a book. It was great to read a sequel to a book I didn't know about. Fun and easy story that re-embraced old characters and added some new. I'll go back and read the series from the start and read ongoing books as well.
Notion that struck me: So often it's the woman who's chooses to stick with a man even when he isn't good for her. Here it's the main character who loves a woman who is terrible for him and rains down trouble. Kind of like Mr. Smith from Lost in Space.
Notion that struck me: So often it's the woman who's chooses to stick with a man even when he isn't good for her. Here it's the main character who loves a woman who is terrible for him and rains down trouble. Kind of like Mr. Smith from Lost in Space.
iasa's review against another edition
3.0
I liked it well enough but it doesn't seem like a whole lot happened. I kinda feel like someone was reading a book aloud and I occasionally walked though the room and got a little taste of a bigger story.
adubrow's review
5.0
Amazing from start to finish. Parker truly had a gift for dialogue and making sparse details and a brevity of words to paint a complete and vivid picture. And as with the other books (outside of Brimstone which I skipped and should go back to) Virgil and Everett remain one of the best fictional duos ever.
All of that, serves to make me even more depressed that Parker's gone and that this is the last of the Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch books he'll ever write.
All of that, serves to make me even more depressed that Parker's gone and that this is the last of the Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch books he'll ever write.