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3.0 out of 5 stars
Characters in search of motivations,
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This review is from: Quantrill (Paperback)
Character motivation is always a problem for me in bushwhacker/jayhawker, Quantrill's Raiders kind of books. They patently weren't followers of any cause, but I get bored reading about horse thieves and nineteenth-century homeboys. It's not easy for an author to make these guys appealing, and Goede doesn't manage to do it. His characters' motivations are completely opaque. I never figured out what was going on in his Quantrill's head. Because of that, and because the plot skips and jumps and becomes confusingly discontinuous, it was hard to maintain interest in this book.Occasionally the writing, as with the rape scene involving Skaggs, becomes interestingly transgressive. It gets three stars simply because the author is able to string words together in a pretty good way, and I'd say it has literary pretensions at least, but it just didn't work for me.
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Quantrill by William Goede (Paperback - 1982)
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