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A review by gwendle_vs_literature
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
3.0
I picked this up at a book sale and didn't realize until later that it was by the same author as The Librarianist, which was a book I decided not to finish.
This was better than that (there was no rampant misuse of words) and I made it through without too much effort, but I’d be very selective about who I’d recommend it to.
The humour for me didn’t lie in the situations themselves being funny, but arose because the story came across as a satire of the Western genre which I am fairly familiar with because I grew up watching them with my dad, but also not inherently a fan of. That said, some of the gore and violence were overdone in a way that blew past drawing attention to the violence of both the fictionalized Western genre and the real historical era during which it is based, and was simply gratuitous and detracted from the story.
This was better than that (there was no rampant misuse of words) and I made it through without too much effort, but I’d be very selective about who I’d recommend it to.
The humour for me didn’t lie in the situations themselves being funny, but arose because the story came across as a satire of the Western genre which I am fairly familiar with because I grew up watching them with my dad, but also not inherently a fan of. That said, some of the gore and violence were overdone in a way that blew past drawing attention to the violence of both the fictionalized Western genre and the real historical era during which it is based, and was simply gratuitous and detracted from the story.