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Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to westerns, fiction lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. In fact, the bad guys often do good, the good guys sometimes do bad, and the top dog no longer knows his boots from his mustache.

But one thing is for certain within this large cast of characters full of cattle-rustling cowboys, self-righteous marshals, back-shooting outlaws, striking miners, apprenticed deputies, cunning gamblers, laudanum-imbibing doctors, boardinghouse angels, cowardly sheriffs, insane Apache-murdering generals, moralistic shopkeepers, whores, and every other citizen of Warlock not to be left out--they are all a bunch of Drama Queens, every last one of them.

Jun 19, Dax rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction , nyrb. Impressive for a number of reasons. Despite the significant amount of gunfire that takes place, this is a character driven novel. As Pynchon noted in his fantastic review, Hall's novel illustrates the fragility of human society, and the quality of Hall's writing and the depth of his characters separate this novel from your standard western fare.

I admit Impressive for a number of reasons. I admit that it takes awhile for the novel to pick up steam there are, after all, about central characters that have to be developed , but once the stage is set, this novel is excellent. I have no idea if this is a 4 star or 5 star book, but I recommend it without hesitation. Another note: The best character in the whole book is also the most amoral. Tom Morgan is such a rewarding character to read about and he alone might be the reason I feel the need to give this five stars.

Oct 04, Ben Loory rated it it was amazing. Jul 15, Jim rated it really liked it Shelves: 20th-century , novels , author-north-american , nyrb , read-in I'm not sure how to define this book The characters apparently bear some relation to historical people, but I'm not inclined to research this topic.

So, we have a mining town, cattle-rustling cowboys out in the valley, paper cutout whores in a never-really- I'm not sure how to define this book So, we have a mining town, cattle-rustling cowboys out in the valley, paper cutout whores in a never-really-seen whore house, a sweet virgin who cares for sick miners, the doctor who is crushing on her hard, deputies who are periodically iced by the rustlers, and the good citizens who hire a gunslinger to become town marshall and clean up the trash.

Standard Hollywood formula, but this is deceptive. Instead of non-stop action, we get LOTS of introspection, contemplation, a Greek chorus in the form of one of the merchant's journal, and most importantly, tons and tons of doubt. Zane Grey this is not. Recommended to anyone who is interested in a re-imagined history of the Old West.

Aug 16, Stewart Mitchell rated it really liked it. Mar 18, Malum rated it it was amazing Shelves: classics , western. A true anti-Western. This is not a romanticized vision of the Wild West, where gunslingers are seen as noble wandering samurai and everyone cheers when he guns down the bad guy. Here, morality is very gray and when people die--even main characters--it is with very little fanfare sometimes even happening off screen. This is a story about people who think violence will solve their problems, but end up finding out that all it does is stain their souls.

Jan 19, Jim rated it it was amazing. I finally tucked into Warlock this year and finished it last night. Every so often cattle rustlers led by a renegade named McQuown ride up from San Pablo six hours away to raise hell. When the barber is killed the citizens decide enough is enough and send for a hired gun — Clay Blaisedell — to serve as Marshall. These characters are incredibly complex, which puts Warlock head and shoulders above horse operas where the sheriff wears white and the bad guys always end up on Boot Hill.

William S. This multiplicity of morals reflects the strange career of Wyatt Earp who was a champion to some and a villain to others, depending on where he was and when you happened to meet him. In other words, a true American hero. Pynchon and Hall were both in the military and servicemen turned writers understand the lie of an intimate cast of characters who are together from boot camp until they die in each other's arms on the field of battle.

The bane of your existence during 90 days of basic training may never be seen or heard from again and the guy you served with in Japan might suddenly pop up in San Diego ten years down the road. Compression is essential in movies, which get their structure from the stage, but Pynchon sees no need for compressing characters in his sprawling novels and he seems to have gotten that from Hall.

And can there be any doubt that the affections of a lady less than virtuous named Kate Dollar will come at a steep price? The God of the Old Testament rules a world not worth His trouble, and He is more violent, more jealous, more terrible with the years. We are only those poor, bare, forked animals Lear saw upon this dismal heath, in pursuit of death, pursued by death.

View all 11 comments. Jun 01, Yuri Sharon rated it it was amazing Shelves: fiction. A book with a big and deserved reputation. Hall takes a few historical incidents and characters, smudges them somewhat and reshuffles the pack so that Billy the Kid or, a Billy the Kid dies in a gunfight at an Acme Corral, not the OK and not by the gun of Pat Garrett. The novel is set in , but the fictional events happen at dates other than the real ones — everything is shifted just that bit sideways, mythologized.

The abiding theme of the work is the question: How does a member of society A book with a big and deserved reputation. When does the moment come when you feel you must step up and confront these things? Written in a crisp, visual style, Warlock was in fact very quickly made into a big-budget, big star Western, although not, in my opinion, a particularly good one.

But then, as we have remarked here before, how often do we see a good book rendered into a mediocre film? This is, above all, a very readable book. It draws you into the world of a dusty western town beyond the frontier and keeps you interested until the last line. Jun 19, Howard rated it it was amazing Shelves: fiction , american-west , western-fiction , american-history , earps , writer-deserves-to-be-remembered , arizona.

Reread Reread May 13, Steve rated it really liked it. Oakley Hall died this past Monday. A friend turned me on to his "Warlock" last year, a very good read. If you are even remotely a fan of HBO's "Deadwood", you'll love this book.

Here's an article from the S. He was His death was caused by cancer and kidney disease, said his daughter, Brett Hall Jones, executive director of the Community of Writers. Hall was one of a handful of writers who helped to define and elevate California literature in the generation after John Steinbeck.

He was the author of more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, including two books on the art of fiction writing and the libretto for an opera based on Wallace Stegner's "Angle of Repose. Hall for nearly three decades. Pulitzer Prize finalist Mr. Hall's novel "Warlock," a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - and the first of a trilogy - was reissued in as part of the New York Review of Books Classics series with an introduction by Robert Stone. Set in the fictional 19th century town of Warlock, it draws on the story of the OK Corral, said Edwin Frank, editor of the series.

Hall's novel, "Separations," as a favorite. Hall was born in in San Diego and grew up in that city's Mission Hills district and in Honolulu. After the war, Mr. Hall's first book, published in , was "Murder City," one of several mysteries he wrote in the early years.

And in he returned to the genre with a five-part series of historical mysteries with the legendary San Francisco newsman Ambrose Bierce as protagonist. In a review of "Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings," then Chronicle book critic David Kipen wrote: "Oakley Hall gives a master class every time he practices his craft.

Hall was director of the creative writing program at UC Irvine, which quickly became one of the best in the country. Among the writers who studied at Irvine and whose careers Mr. Hall helped to launch are Richard Ford and Michael Chabon.

Founded writers' group In , Mr. Hall co-founded the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, an annual summer writers' conference in the Sierra Nevada, where emerging writers gain world-class instruction from famous authors and mingle with literary agents and publishers in a beautiful setting.

Hall and his wife of 65 years, the photographer Barbara Hall, lived half of each year in Squaw Valley and half in San Francisco. Amy Tan credits the Squaw Valley Community of Writers with guiding her from fledgling writer to published author. They are deep-hearted and stalwart, generous and kind and giving.

Hall read from his most recent novel, "Love and War in California" - published last year by St. His former student, Michael Chabon, introduced him. Both books are set in San Diego in the years leading up to World War II and feature a young man with literary ambitions. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Doctors Without Borders, Seventh Ave. Box , Nevada City CA Apr 16, Jim rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction , western.

Nicely written but a bit drawn out; I think the book could have been 50 pages shorter and possibly been more effective. I wouldn't give Mr Hall full points for originality, however - his gunfight at the Acme corral is practically a carbon copy of the OK Corral shootout, right down to what were reported to be direct quotes from the principals involved in the latter gunfight.

The Rattlesnake Canyon massacres were obviously derived from the historical Skeleton Canyon and Guadalupe Canyon massacres. I suppose that Hall's drawing so much of the story from actual events would almost justify shelving this book in the historical fiction section.

View all 3 comments. Apr 15, Joe rated it it was amazing. Warlock left me with both a profound sense of literary satisfaction, and a less definable, more visceral sense of extreme unease. What, exactly, happened here? To these people, to this place, to the idea and ideals they were all striving for and living up to? What does it mean, that anybody can change so much, and yet nobody really changes at all?

There is a feeling, upon closing this book, that the story of this one wild, small town has devastating ramifications for all of us, though I am not s Warlock left me with both a profound sense of literary satisfaction, and a less definable, more visceral sense of extreme unease. There is a feeling, upon closing this book, that the story of this one wild, small town has devastating ramifications for all of us, though I am not sure what they are: But if these characters, who are so real and so flawed and so nuanced, these proto-heroes and -villains, who morph so swiftly into their own antitheses and back again in the eyes of their peers and, also, in themselves; if these human symbols can suffer so much, just by trying so hard to do what is right, what hope do the rest of us have?

The more exceptional you are, Warlock seems to say, the more you are destined to fail. The more you think you know what you are, the worse your one moment of truth will be. The more you care about somebody else, the more chance you stand of injuring them beyond their own imagining.

More than these small interpersonal struggles, Warlock tries to crack apart the very idea of "society. Other residents include Johnny Gannon, a former associate of McQuown's, who returns from a long sojourn away after an unspeakable incident of violence; the suspicious and callous Tom Morgan, Blaisedell's close and loyal friend, who always seems to be at the center of controversy; a whiskey-bloated judge whose holier-than-thou harangues often comprise the only backbone of Warlock's morality; a mysterious woman in black who rides in on a coach and adds an explosive element to Warlock's chemical makeup; an insane General who holds the town's fate in his hands; a romantic do-gooder whose virgin love wreaks havoc with the primary players.

All of these characters' fortunes rise and fall on a dime or a draw, as they each try to remain immovable, even while the townspeople try to bend them to their will—and, indeed, to their very sense of morality. The results are exciting, heartbreaking, explosive, breathless, and beautiful. Add to the mix a burgeoning miners' strike that takes the story well beyond the Warlock borders, into the bank vaults and business offices of San Francisco, and you have a Genuine American Tale.

Hall's writing is mostly impeccable, and his handle on the characters and the language allows the reader to effortlessly slip from a monosyllabic exchange, to a poetic passage on the lonely-raw beauty of the land, to a page-long diatribe on the nature of man and law that might seem better fit in the writings of Rousseau. But you buy it all the while because, as you might expect, there is romance and humor and blood here, too, and enough to drown the philosophy when necessary.

Can real and lasting law truly be forged out of violence or, perhaps more to the point, is there ever any other way to forge it? This seems to be the biggest question of them all, in this amazingly crafted novel and moral tale.

But, more relevant to me, can any of us ever live up to our own ideals; and if so, is it worth it? Jul 18, Harrison Sutton rated it it was amazing. I have to believe that more people know and have read this book because I refuse to believe something like this would have gone under the radar for so long. Perfectly plotted, some amazing characters, and a genuinely tragic story. Jun 04, M. Nombre obligatorio. Pocast: Leed, Malditos. Archivo Archivo Elegir el mes abril diciembre noviembre septiembre junio febrero enero septiembre agosto julio abril febrero abril marzo febrero diciembre octubre septiembre agosto julio febrero Blogs Leer es vivir dos veces leedmalditos1.

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