tristanrobinblakeman 's review for:

Deadwood by Pete Dexter

3.0

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I have to confess: I read this because I loved the HBO series - and the movie wrap-up of the series. The book is certainly interesting, but one of the rare examples of the film version being superior in my opinion. The character spring to life more on film than in the writing - there always seems to be some part of them that we don't 'know' from the reading. I enjoyed it until about halfway through - and then it just quickly began to leave me disinterested and cold. Important and life-changing events were given no more study or reason than minor things like putting on a shirt. Perhaps that was intentional; but, I never grasped the reason.
Anyway. I'm not sorry I read it ... but I'll rewatch the series before I ever reread the book!