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I tried to read this book about 5 years ago and I could not get into it. For book club last month I read The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven which is a compilation of short stories, and while I didn't especially enjoy that book it made reading this actually enjoyable. Victor, Junior, and Thomas were all main characters in both book and it was good reading more into their futures. Overall not a great book, but it was a good read to continue the story.
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I'm not sure what to say about this just yet. Still absorbing the story!
Thomas Builds-The-Fire goes through a journey of finding himself after he finds Robert Johnson, a blues guitarist, walking down the road by himself. Johnson leaves Thomas his guitar, and that's when music takes over Thomas's life. He starts a band with two of his rez buddies, Victor and Junior, and lets two Flathead Indian sisters, Chess and Checkers, join after they finish their first drunken show. The story follows them as ...more
Thomas Builds-The-Fire goes through a journey of finding himself after he finds Robert Johnson, a blues guitarist, walking down the road by himself. Johnson leaves Thomas his guitar, and that's when music takes over Thomas's life. He starts a band with two of his rez buddies, Victor and Junior, and lets two Flathead Indian sisters, Chess and Checkers, join after they finish their first drunken show. The story follows them as ...more
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