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Title: Badger Boy by Elmer Kelton ISBN: 0-8125-7750-7 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 07 January, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: HARD TO PUT IT DOWN!!!!!!!
Comment: Bager Boy is about Rusty Shannon and his activities as the Civil War ends. He was a Ranger and as such is on his way back home after the war. The book will hold your attention. Rusty has to face many disapointments. His girl has gotten married, he has no money and not much hope of getting any. There are people who would like him gone. It is a good story of people at that time and the hard time they faced. Rusty ends up finding a white boy, dressed as an Indian and who had been living with the tribe for several years. This is Bager Boy. As expected the Boy is rejected by what is left of his family and Rusty is to take him back to his own prople. The ending has a surprise. The book is more of a family adventure than a "shoot out western". It does have a good story. I question the name as the Bager Boy does not relly show up in the book until page 158 when the book is half over, but then I did not name it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Western fiction fans apparently have low standards
Comment: *Badger Boy* was a chance find on a local store bookshelf which was almost unpopulated by anything resembling science fiction, and while I don't regret the purchase or the time spent reading the novel, I'm a bit disappointed. Kelton is not a bad storyteller, and he's got a good touch at characterization. The truthfulness of his settings I can't satisfactorily address as I'm unfamiliar with the history of Texas and the Indian Territories at the depicted time, but they seem robust enough. The problem is that the work appears to be no more than a matchstick sketch, without much depth or detail, and these characters -- and the situations in which they find themselves -- really deserve much better. If *Badger Boy* is any indication of the present state-of-the-art in Western fiction, then the writers and fans of this genre are stuck at roughly the same phase of development as was characterized in science fiction by works like A.E. van Vogt's *Slan* (which was published in 1946). Speaking as an outsider -- a science fiction fan who has little experience with the Western genre -- can I ask just why the hell a writer as obviously talented as Elmer Kelton is producing stuff that promises so much and delivers so little? Is it that you Western fiction fans are too easily satisfied, and don't support your writers as intelligently and expectantly as you should?
Rating: 4
Summary: Ferociously Good Sequel!
Comment: Little wonder that Elmer Kelton has been voted the greatest western writer of all time by the Western Writers of America. His current novel, "Badger Boy," extends Kelton's reputation of well-researched excellence. As entertaining as it's predecessor, "The Buckskin Line," "Badger Boy" transports the reader to post-Civil War Texas with writing so vivid you can smell the earthiness of frontier cabin and taste the pungency of frontier justice. You find yourself caring about these characters and if you're like me, you'll be eagerly anticipating their further adventures. Sink your teeth into this one!
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Title: Way of the Coyote by Elmer Kelton ISBN: 0812577515 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 18 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Buckskin Line by Elmer Kelton ISBN: 0812540204 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 15 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Ranger's Trail by Elmer Kelton ISBN: 0765344793 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 18 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Captain's Rangers by Elmer Kelton ISBN: 0812574907 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 15 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Dark Thicket by Elmer Kelton ISBN: 0812565223 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 18 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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