American By Blood

[joe]

Hi all. This is my first post so I apologize if I've posted this to the wrong forum.

I tried searching the site regarding Andrew Huebner's American By Blood, but didn't find anything. Here's a review:

bostonreview.net/BR25.1/onan.html

I was just curious to hear if anyone has read this book and what they think about it.

Cheers,

Joe

[Diane Merkel]

Welcome, Joe.

Unfortunately, the person on these boards who loved historic fiction the most passed away last month. I'm not sure how many of the rest of us read it, but I'm sure they'll chime in if they have read this book.

Diane

[biggordie]

joe:

Welcome, indeed. Somewhere on this forum, there is a post by the venerable Moderator which gives some links to reviews, film project development and etc. for American By Blood. I can't seem to find it - perhaps she can.

Gordie

[Diane Merkel]

Gordie, your memory is amazing. I didn't even remember posting this:

lbha.proboards12.com/index.cgi?board=media&action=display&thread=2043

The post is almost two years old!

[biggordie]

Does anybody know where my shopping list for tomorrow is?

Gordie

and don't bother replying that it is where I left it.............................................

[joe]

Thanks for your replies Diane and Gordie. From the reviews I've read, it sounds similar in style to Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (no quotes for dialog, run-on sentences), which I enjoyed quite a bit. It also seems like Huebner took some liberties regarding the facts of LBH but I can overlook that if it's a good read.

Did you check inside the fridge, Gordie?

[biggordie]

I was joshing, Joe. As it turned out, however, I forgot to take the list with me [and also my lottery number selections], so I had to make a special trip to the corner store [the corner is about a half mile away], and my carefully-conceived plan to have everything done early so that I didn't have to walk in the emerging heat of the day [it's gonna hit around 90, a humid 90, today] fell by the wayside. [I'll pick it up on the way back].

Who was it who said that the mere mention of something, even [or maybe especially] in jest, is certain to make it happen, particularly if it is not desirable? Oh yeah, that was me!!

Gordie

[bc]

90 degrees? Is that all? At least you don't have to use your dogsled. Around here it has been getting up to 110 degrees and a 110% humidity.

I think your list is with my 1862 cav tactics book and my new book on pack mules written by the quartermaster of the Washington corral during or just after the cw. I wanted to quote from them but they aren't in the bookcase and they aren't stacked over by the recliner with all the 20 books I'm reading on. Reading about mules while in the recliner is a real snoozer. Melanie has it easy if she is only working on 3 books at a time.

[biggordie]

bc:

I know what you mean. When I used to work in the book business, about a million years ago, it was not unusual for me to have six or eight books on the go at the same time, and I often had two or three in the pockets of my field jacket to read in restaurants or on the bus, streetcar or subway. Usually it would be a real potpourri of titles - one history, two mysteries, a couple of westerns, one on travel, one on baseball, one classic novel - well, you get the idea.

Nowadays, I don't read as much for sheer pleasure - it's usually for research purposes or to find leads to research materials. I currently have seven on the go, none of which have much to do with mules, and all of which have something or other to do with the LBH [and all of which, except for Ricker, I have read before].

Rather weird - now that I can spend as much time reading as I want to, it has lost some of its attractions for me. Maybe there's another "rule" in there somewhere.

Why is it that I keep thinking that you're from Wyoming, around the Ten Sleep area, when your profile clearly says "Kansas" and you have referred to being in Kansas more than once?

Gordie
not the most fully-charged battery in the pack...........................