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19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not Bad....Not Great,
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This review is from: The Signal: A Novel (Hardcover)
I continue to be disappointed by Amazon (and professional) reviews that over-rate books. The Signal was a 3.5 star book...nothing wrong with that and not a reason to avoid the novel. The Signal is well-written and I found the portions of the book that were reflective on a failed marriage the most interesting.
I do fault the author for injecting unnecessary, and in my opinion, unrealistic plots into an otherwise good story line. The basis of the story is that an out-of-luck, down-and-out, divorced rancher has been hired to locate a missing 'drone' aircraft in the outback wild. Strange enough...but he decides to bring along his ex-wife for 'one last annual fishing trip'. Ignore the fact that we have a rancher searching for a drone, ignore that he decides that he can bring along his ex-wife (who is living with someone else), ignore that he seems to believe that he can search for a drone during the trip without his ex-wife's knowledge, and you have a book that is 95% satisfying, 80% of the time. Would have been a better book if the 'Signal' was left out of The Signal. A good effort, but not without flaws.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Love of the mountains,
This review is from: The Signal: A Novel (Hardcover)
In effect this short novel is a paean to the wild mountains and outdoors, all else is secondary and if ignored really makes it a better book. Mark a troubled man who grew up on a ranch made into one of the guest ranches that have been created to save the failing ranches. Mark resorts to some very shady activities to make money after his father's death. He wants to save his ranch but feels he cannot do what his father did in being a welcoming presence to guests.
The main body deals with a trip into the wild wildness of the mountains with his ex wife, a trip they have taken before. He is also seeking a drone that he has been hired to find and hopefully it will finance the saving of his ranch with the money earned. Not enough is explained, so that plot almost becomes secondary, especially since they also become hunted by some poachers they run across. To have them run from that but also hunted because of the drone is an exercise in irrationality. The beauty and worth of the story is in the love of the country, the mountains and the outdoors - with descriptions so wonderful and complete you can smell and feel their presence - that makes it a book worth reading.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Signal: A Novel (Hardcover)
Ron Carlson proves up to Gertrude Stein's challenge in this fine piece of writing. That it is a compelling story, tempts you to rush through the chapters to know the outcome and final resolution of the relationship between the two main characters. But do not cheat yourself in this read. Dwell in the efficiently pounding prose describing the magnificent mountain country of the Wind River Range in Wyoming. Carlson's eye and wordcraft captures both the grandness of the region and the reverent details of a land celestially conceived and created. A good tale, extremely well told.
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