Gunslinger

Marcus Hale, editor of The Glory Gazette and Mayor Lemuel Porter, also banker, traveled from Kansas to the far mountain top to route out The Gunslinger, Tom Bolt.

But was this because they needed him to save their town? Depends on how you look at it.
They caught Tom when he thought he would go crazy with just a dog to talk to. Thirty nine year old Tom wanted a house. A home.

The mayer knew just who he could put the pressure onto to take in The Gunslinger. The widow Briggs.

When the tall, dark stranger arrived in Glory, Kansas he caused quite a stir. Sixteen year old, Billy Dakin developed quite a hero crush on Tom and started to pack a gun.

The redheaded Nettie Fisk claimed to know Tom but couldn't entice him up to her room at Bird's bordello. The widow, Zena Briggs soon learned that Nettie was trying to catch Tom's attention. She did the laundry for the bordello.

Zena thought it was uncivilized that Tom would not name his dog and thereafter she spent some time trying to think of a name for the black and white silky haired mongrel.

Ah, but Tom and Zena's first kisses set the tone for a wonderful romance between the upright but troubled widow and the heart sick, weary gunman. [wonderful cover]

M. McBride gives us a wonderful tale of the cross-purposes of denied love on the frontier and a great solution to our hero and his lady. A fabulous read - heart warming, wonderful emotions betrayed by two loving characters with a great supporting cast.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED [with a little extra loving thrown in]but our heros can't be denied.

BOUND FOR GLORY
Tom Bolt was infamous - the Fastest Gun in the West - if the dime novels were to be believed. And thanks to the town fathers of Glory, Kansas, he was now not only the new sheriff, but a paying guest in Zena Briggs's home!

It had been a long time since the black-garbed gunslinger had anything worth living for. But the young Widow Briggs was an angel who had offered him a haven in her home and in her heart. A heart he knew he'd break when the time came for him to leave...

Mr Resnick showed his maturity as a writer in this outstanding finale (part 4 - Tales of Galactic Midway). Not reading the first 3 books will not take away from the enjoyment. This book is his first SF book with truly larger than life characters and outstanding character development.

This book was soooo good! I read it and thought that this guy knows his ghosts. I would also recomend books by Dainel Cohen. Both of these authors are very, very good. The pictures are also wonderful. This is a must read if you like ghost books!

Brock Kincaid is just as [wonderful] as his brothers, Caleb and Will and cousin James portrayed in the anthology of Big Sky Grooms, another must read and also a keeper!

Be sure not to miss Big Sky Brides anthology of the delightful contemporary sisters, Suzanna and Diana Brennan and the historical story of their great-great grandparents, Isabella and Kyle Running Horse Brennan.

Brock Kincaid was home and the last thing he expects is to find himself staring into a set of eyes that look hauntingly familiar...the eyes of a son he never knew he had. Is he too late to build a relationship with his son? Abby Watson wants nothing to do with the man who murdered her brother, left her pregnant and broke her heart. But how can she deny a father's right to know his son? Brock and Abby have to work to overcome the past, live through the present and possibly find a future together. Cheryl St. John is known for her tender, poignant stories that touch readers' hearts, but she's outdone even herself with The Gunslinger's Bride, a tender story about letting go and loving.

Truly a must have for any western film enthusiast. Informative text and numerous photos (some quite unique and rare). Covers the real old movies as well as modern recent films too. Very large format makes the photos a real treasure!

I have read all four books in the Dark Towers series. I have not read the short story put out in the book with all the other authors, I will get around to it. Because in little piece is better than nothing at all. I can not believe what a roller coaster ride these four books have taken me on. And the other people I know who has enjoyed the story as much as I have about the Dark Tower. I would want to see a final conclusion on this I want to know I need to know does he make it to the Tower does the world begin to turn around. Will Roland some how save us from the Man in Black? I need to know this I wish there was a way to go and knock on Mr. King's door and ask him to start the final chapter in this. The Wizard and the Glass was my favorite book out of all four books, it really tied a lot of things together. They all have a special place in my heart, all four books. Mr. King get to work your fans can no longer wait.

I have fallen hard for this series! King is a master. His use of bits and pieces of "our" world provides a chilling touch. I know a lot of people did not like the "Wizard of Oz" touch, but I found it to add to the mystic that can only be Stephen King. He takes something that we are all familiar with, then twists it, gives it new dimension and makes it his own. I reread the first 3 books and then read this one all in a matter of 4 days. I can hardly wait for the next book! (although my family probably hopes it won't be out for a while yet) Please, Stephen, publish the next one! We're dying out here! Your writing is superb and makes me want to be a part of Roland's Ka-tet! Onward to the Dark Tower Mr. King! Onward! (very soon!)

This series is outstanding!!!! True King fans love it, and I think it's an interesting change for those who may not care for King's normal "horror" genre. Bits and pieces of this masterpiece are hinted at in many of King's other books,a nice "inside joke" for King's Constant Reader. This series grabbed me and would not let go! I've read them all at least twice and like the header says, I'm foaming at the mouth for the "Wolves of Calla" to come out. This is a beautiful set and a series that could be as much of a fantasy classic as the likes of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. HIGHLY ADDICTIVE! Once you read the first page of just one in this series you'll be compelled to read every one of them!

It's great that Ed Dorn's poem (in book form, though it was originally published in a sequence of smaller parts, and assembled) is back in print, after the single-volume version took a short drop to the OOP lists. There are few poems that so effectively capture a decade -- and a century. Read it; fight with it; enjoy the sensibility. This is a book about the American West and, like the work of Charles Olson (one of Dorn's teachers), it is about poetry as a means of understanding aspects of the psyche, motivation, and acquisitiveness that is so American.

That's the good new; you'll read this and laugh about parts, and agonize over others, and relish still more. But be wary of the "Introduction," which is a heavy bolus of words (read the back cover excerpt, if you doubt me). Yes, the folks at Duke (a University Press) felt it necessary to drop a scholarly "Introduction" on the book, but Perloff's offering will inspire you to reach for your Metamucil. As a scholar, she is accomplished (publications on Beckett, Plath, Pound, O'Hara, Lowell, Stevens, Yeats, Williams, Berryman, Rimbaud, Zukofsky, Blackburn, John Cage, Goethe, Ginsberg, Ashbery, and a dozen others), but her treatment of Dorn is at best wooden, and with 35 years of writing on poets she musters great range without summoning either a notable depth or enthusiasm.

Buy the book for Dorn's own work and fight to cherish the results.

An epic poem so richly filled with wisdom, wordplay & laughs that a little of it is often enough. Dorn's characters - who are derived from both John Bunyan & Paul Bunyan - wander through a landscape that feels like a spaghetti western existing inside a Star Trek wormhole. All of the rituals of the Great American Desert are honored & performed in ways that surprise & delight. The cinematography is nonpareil. Does the Zlinger fall in love with Lil? Does he ride off into the Sunset of Happy Trails? Does Walter Brennan make a cameo appearance? Read on, fellow pilgrims, read on.

Bob Rixon

The late Ed Dorn wrote a masterpiece with "Gunslinger", an anti-epic poem that prefigures many post-modern gestures from its 60s era starting point. Funny, cartoonish, erudite to the extreme, it also locates a tuned lyricism in the Western vernaculars that Dorn uses: the metaphysical aspect of our legends, the sheer questing for answers as Euro-Americans come treading closer to a West coast that will stop them and force them to settle and create lives from dust and ingenuity, comes alive in way that never escapes the zaniness of Dorns' narrating inquiry into the nature of the search.

A masterpiece

The Dark TowerSh

The gunslinger is a good book that I would give four stars because it keeps you wanting more and is a whole different world. At the same time the world is the same world we live in today and back when there used to be cowboys that roamed in one world. It gives a different interesting setting and people that are not we as we think of people today. This all involves the gunslinger following a man in black that the gunslinger plans on killing. He does not know why he is following the man in black and why he must kill him, but he continues to do what he was trained to do. He was the last of the gunslingers. This book is not like any other book I have read before. I enjoyed this book and would love to read the rest of the books in the Dark Tower series and I hope you would enjoy to read this book as well.

The Gunslinger series is an excellent story. I've read the poem by Robert Browning that this story is based on and find the poem much more enjoyable since reading this series. I'm looking forward to book number five and hope Mr King is sufficiently recovered from his accident to get it to his fans very soon.

This series is unlike anything else Stephen King has written It is by far the BEST series I have ever read and I read alot. I have read the series twice and have already started reading it again.I Love these books that much.I would recomend these books to anyone.If you are reading this Mr.King I would like you to know that all I ever think about is the next book.

Girls with guns is not anything new in the Japanese story canon, and as one can expect, Yu Aida's manga has plenty of the conventional plotting elements. Dying girls are given a new chance at life, their memories wiped away, their bodies enhanced to create a unit of highly deadly assassins. The agency pairs a trainer/brother up with each cyborg girl and uses these pairs to deadly effect within a world of terrorists and warring political factions.

Despite the premise, it was a bit of a surprise to discover that the story within the pages was neither an action-packed fight fest with bullets constantly flying or full of scenes of high emotional outbursts. There's plenty of violent gunplay within the story's context, but this volume focuses primarily on psychological exploration of innocence and violence, and the unusual relationship between cyborg and trainer. This is not a comedy series, despite the indication on the cover jacket. In GUNSLINGER GIRL the emotional energy appears as controlled as the girls themselves. There are no exaggerated takes, no crying scenes. Small smiles and frowns dominate the emotional landscape, but become much more powerful for their restraint.

Since this is not set up as one smooth-flowing story, but rather broken into five chapters, the narrative does lose a bit of its action-adventure energy, and makes for a slower paced story. A sense of bittersweetness underscores this manga from beginning to end, the feeling that what has happened to these girls is terribly wrong, and yet unescapable. There is some concern about the young nature of the girls and their relationships with their brother/trainer but I found the overall relationships did not imply anything salacious. While the love attachment fostered may not be exactly proper, this is part of the poignancy of this story. There are no inadvertent panty flashes or seduction scenes to imply otherwise. It is possible that the story arc will gain momentum from this introductory volume to come up with an interesting storyline for our heroines--with so little in this story that's not conventional, it may be difficult to pull off this manga series, but it has potential.

To my mind, the artwork is one of the best parts of this particular manga. Beautifully drawn, the images consist of clean lines and borders, with little ornamentation, allowing the frames a clear and Spartan quality. The action scenes contrast nicely with the more static dialogue scenes, really evoking the sudden transition of these girls from innocent children to deadly killers. And while the violence is brief and refrains from being overtly gory, it is nevertheless effectively drawn. Yu Aida clearly knows his weaponry, and the attention to accuracy of the various guns the girls use will likely be appreciated by readers who are weapons enthusiasts.

This is a decent action/drama manga containing moderate violence, minimal sexual reference and no sexuality of a truly graphic nature. No chibi cuteness and plenty of realistic weaponry. But be aware that the psychological explorations certainly mean this manga is for a mature audience and may not be appropriate for the preteen reader. I'm looking forward to seeing where this series will go.
Happy reading! ^_^ shanshad

Henrietta has been taken in by the Social Welfare Agency after surviving a brutal attack on herself and her family. She has been changed, her missing body parts replaced with artificial ones and her mind conditioned, with drugs and training, to be the perfect killing machine. At least, as perfect as you can get and still be a little girl.
She is just one of a group of assassins, each one controlled and taught by a adult handler, each one dealing with their brainwashing and their own normal emotions.
Can a programmed killer fall in love? Can a conditioned assassin pick life over death? Can Henrietta ever truly live?

Gunslinger Girl first caught my eye in Newtpe Magazine (If you don't know this magazine, pick it up, it's amazing, and if you do, pick it anyway ^o^). I thought the anime would be good, but I was very suprised to find that before I got my hands on the anime I got to read the manga. This doesn't often happen. Let me just say, I'm glad I read the manga first. I was shocked that the drawing style of the people was so harsh! I would catergorize it with GTO or Onizuka..yetch.. but the backgrounds are very very well drawn and expressed. Also, the angles are well-done, too. It really adds to the experience of reading. Not many mangas do this (at least not the ones I read to this specific effect), so I was really grateful. The storyline was quite different from what I'm used to. I'm a shojo enthusiast, but I also have a serious side. The serious side was very satisfied with the story. I kept wanting to cry, especially in chapter three. Hoo boy. *Whimper*. It just goes to show you that these girls do not have any shred of a normal life. Also, throughout the book, I kept wondering what the girls will do in the future after they outgrow thier "young girl innocent 'I, being a young girl would never be expected to tote a gun so don't suspect it'" visad. I suppose they will probably die either in battle or due to thier "conditioning" before this happens, ne? Anyway, I didn't think that this book would be a multiple-times-reader type of a book, but it definitely is. It's a good investment in your money because not only did I read it multiple times, it also took me quite a while to read because my eyes wanted to drink in all the scenery! So, give yourself a kleenex and read this drama-filled thriller. You won't regret it.

Mark Tufts has written an action packed and explosive tale of one man's thirst for vengeance and purpose. It is a tale of how one's man's perfect life comes crashing down on him due to terrifying and unimaginable events.

Meet Mitch Talon; a hard-working and honest man who wants to live a peaceful life. Once he finds the woman he so deeply loves, everything seems perfect and set. That is, until fate steps in and causes his wife, who is bearing unborn twins at the time, to die in a hit and run. Mitch Talon knows that somebody must pay, and that someone will pay with his life. And that is only the beginning of a quest for vengeance and redemption. That's as far as I will go, because this novel is filled with many twists and surprises for you to uncover.

This was a great page-turner, which did not disappoint me. I was very surprised with this great novel. For those who like gun-slinging, nail-biting action, or a good story, this novel will have you hooked from the start. Mark Tufts is a fine writer, and so far is heading towards the right direction.

Can you believe what they're charging for books these days?! At least this a full size paperback with good paper...it should hold together until all my friends get done reading it.

Anyway, I loved this story. I bought the book for my boyfriend, but I started to read it when it came in the mail. And once I started, I couldn't stop. Needless to say, he still hasn't had the chance to read it, and won't anytime soon because after I told all my girlfriends about it, they want to read it too!

Guess I'll have to buy another copy for my man.

I have to admit, as I read the first few chapters, I really wasn't sure where the story was going...I mean, was this a romance or what? But then it took off! After you get into the story, you realize the first few chapters are just to set up the rest of the book, and hopefully, a whole series. I love the whole premise, that is, a lone gunman type of hero, or even sometimes, antihero. I found myself cheering for the main character, even when he was on a killing spree. In Gunslinger, Tufts has created a main character that Joe Average can identify with. If you grew up reading the likes of Louis L'Amour, you'll love this book! I highly recommend it, and can't wait for the saga to continue.