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I loved this book! Highly recommend to anyone and everyone. I enjoyed deWitt's writing style, short chapters but so full and fantastic. I look forward to more of his writings in the future. And by the way, I LOVE the cover art.
Edit: 10/10/2016
I just reread this one and still love it. While the first time reading experience wasn't there, it still was a wonderful, fun read. I forgot so much so it was fun to reread! ...more
Edit: 10/10/2016
I just reread this one and still love it. While the first time reading experience wasn't there, it still was a wonderful, fun read. I forgot so much so it was fun to reread! ...more
It is 1851 in the Oregon Territory, and Charlie and Eli Sisters have been ordered by the Commodore to go to California and kill a man called Hermann Kermit Warm. The Commodore needs them to steal the 'formula' and then get rid of its originator. His “formula” turns out to be a chemical solution that enables gold seekers to find what they’re looking for without all that digging and sifting. Its effect on those who employ it — the price it exacts upon greed — is the comeuppance dealt out in this
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A Western tale, set during the California Gold Rush. Charlie and Eli Sisters are guns for hire. They set out from the Oregon Territory, travelling to San Francisco in search of one Herman Kermit Warm. Herman's death has been ordered by The Commodore.
Along the way Charlie and Eli encounter a whole array of characters, each adding some element of dark comedy to the tale.
I read deWitt's French Exit and I really wanted to love this one as much - I just didn't. It was a decent read. But not worthy of ...more
Along the way Charlie and Eli encounter a whole array of characters, each adding some element of dark comedy to the tale.
I read deWitt's French Exit and I really wanted to love this one as much - I just didn't. It was a decent read. But not worthy of ...more
Eli and Charlie are infamous gunslingers in the employ of a powerful man, known only as the Commodore. This time the job takes them to California, which is full of fools following the Gold Rush, to find a man who has crossed their employer (or so the Commodore says). Sounds simple enough; they are professionals after all. And so they set off from Oregon City to San Francisco, encountering on their way a witch, a couple of bears, a dead Indian, a house full of drunken “ladies,” a murderous gang o
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Jul 16, 2011
Kelly
marked it as to-read
Jul 18, 2014
Kris (My Novelesque Life)
marked it as to-read
Aug 16, 2021
Amber K
marked it as to-read
