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drjonty 's review for:
A Congregation of Jackals
by S. Craig Zahler
Wordy western
I came to the book like many I imagine via Bone Tomahawk. The novel is entertaining enough but suffers from two flaws. One is its wordiness. Even the most banal line seems to require the voluptuaries of a filigreed vocabulary as stilted as a bad Jane Austen adaptation. You could call it heightened and leave at that but it grinds. The second flaw is the story itself which moves forward largely on the power of a series of stupid decisions made by people you previously suspected weren't stupid. The gore and extreme violence begins to wear thin as well, taking on an adolescent prurience. Blood Meridian this ain't.
I came to the book like many I imagine via Bone Tomahawk. The novel is entertaining enough but suffers from two flaws. One is its wordiness. Even the most banal line seems to require the voluptuaries of a filigreed vocabulary as stilted as a bad Jane Austen adaptation. You could call it heightened and leave at that but it grinds. The second flaw is the story itself which moves forward largely on the power of a series of stupid decisions made by people you previously suspected weren't stupid. The gore and extreme violence begins to wear thin as well, taking on an adolescent prurience. Blood Meridian this ain't.