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Fighting For Air-The Unknown Adventures Of Young Doc Holliday

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The book starts out with great promise and a great premise, but. By the time Doc fianlly gets to Dallas the book starts to bog down, by the time he gets to Fort Griffin you are scanning not reading. There are too many unlikely coincidences, too much fluff and far too much repetition in the story line and in the action to keep it neatly strung together and moving along.

I found "Fighting for Air - The Unknown Adventures of the Young Doc Holliday" an excellent and highly enjoyable read. The well paced story takes you through the life of Doc Holliday up to the point most people know him. I really enjoyed the historical detail of the novel covering Holliday's experiences through the Civil War, the carpetbagger era in the South and the boom of the U.S. as the country expands westward in the later part of the 1800s. Against this historical backdrop, the author does an outstanding job of getting inside the character of Doc Holliday to help understand the events and people in his life that created the man everyone knows mostly from the OK Corral. The history altering events that Holliday witnesses are covered from his viewpoint and give a unique personal perspective into how these events affected both Holiday's course in life and individuals of this time period. Yet the narrative never stops to digress into an extended history lesson. There are numerous well drawn supporting characters both historical and fictional that come in and out of Holliday's life along the way. As with the events he experiences, the effect these people have in the choices Holliday makes in his life are fascinating. Putting historical events and characters aside, the book is also a fun, rip-roaring, fast paced adventure! I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a well crafted character driven story, historical fiction or just looking for a good read.

Jack Kincade's new novel entitled Fighting for Air, The Unknown Adventures of Young Doc Holliday is a spectacular read. It's an historical novel based on Doc Holliday's life and adventures: a totally involving, magnetic history of an unusual and exceptional individual which keeps you on the edge of your seat just waiting for what will happen next I found this to be a true page turner in every sense of the word. Jack Kincade casts a spell over the reader from the minute you crack open his book and read the opening paragraph. A spell which cannot be denied nor one you ever wish to end.

It's a rare event when one finds a novel which reads like riding the rapids straight to the open sea. This novel wets your appetite with each page and maintains your interest from one chapter to the next. Consequently, I devoured it all in a day and a half just because I couldn't put it down. I was sorry to see the story come to an end. To say that I would recommend this to one and all is an understatement.

I can easily see this turned into a movie or cable series.

I choose to read this book for personal reasons. The subject matter is not anything that has ever interested me and I have never been a fan of the Wild West. SURPRISE! What a wonderful ride this book took me on. From the the first page to the last my mind continued to create colorful panaramas that were forever changing with each event. The wonderful descriptive way the author choose his words allowed me to hear the sounds created by children, frogs, gun fire, horses, trains and barroom brawls. The beautiful frienships developed within the pages are so sweet and rare. This really needs to be on the Big Screen. Maybe now I am a fan of the Wild West. Thank you Mr.Jack Kincade.

It is extremely rare for me to find a book so engaging that I truly cannot put it down, and yet that is precisely what happened when I started this book. The details of Holliday's early years in Georgia during the Civil War were quite an eye-opener for me. Even if some of the details are embellished, I found that I was having so much fun that it didn't matter. Later, as the adventure in young Doc's life unfolds, it is compelling, and the author's writing style is simple, highly readable, and always pulling the reader forward. I highly recommend this novel to anyone who loves a good yarn.

Great book, fun to read. I kept picturing Val Kilmer and Dennis Quaid in their movie personifications of the famous Doc Holliday, especially Kilmer's steely-eyed cool in moments of pressure. I don't know how accurate the historical references are in this book, but certainly much of it rings true.

I look forward to more Kindle books by this author.
1/7/09

Barely worth the time it took to read it. Nothing more than an over-romaticized and idealized portrayal of Doc Holliday. Very slow very often. If you're looking for any mention of Tombstone, you won't find it.

I loved it and I didn't want to stop reading once I'd started. I'ts a fascinating story and an eye opener as to how things really were in the Civil War and after as young Doc travels westward. A very well written novel and it makes me want to know more of the early history of this country. I hope a movie is made from this book - it's just begging for it. I'm looking forward to the next novel by this author.