Brules

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Summary: a brilliant , capativating , awesome read
Review: From start to finish ,just a great book, what's best is the great detail in which the story is told , very vivid , you become almost attached to the character and feel like taking the same journey that Cat Brules takes, thru a time that(sadly) had been forgotten, the magic of the old west , the indians , buffalos, wild game , and the images of a land before the migration west. the sequel was just as good it was kinda sad to see the fading of the wild west but it was still a great book the third installment though besides the part when brules finally dies really wasn't that good , to much on steven cartwirght . all in all 5 stars for the both of them , 2 and 1/2 for the third one

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Summary: Overblown
Review: I do not often read westerns, however I thought I would give a book like Brules, touted to be more literature than genre, a try. I'm sorry I did.

Brules is too long, too wordy, and unnecessarily racist. Yes, the white men and the indians didn't love each other. We know that. But having that driven home without redemption for over 400 of the 500 pages is nauseating at best. Brules himself is mostly without redemption. There is little to love in a man who views his woman as a beautiful piece of flesh and shoots and kills people to get whatever he needs. Yes, I'm sure there were lots of cowboys like that out there, but do we really want to spend a whole 500 and some pages in the company of one?

That said, Brules is fairly well written, and Harry Combs did manage to create one character I really cared about--the young man we meet at the beginning of the book and to whom Brules tells his story, Steven Cartwright. I hear Combs wrote a whole book about him, The Legend of the Painted Horse, and perhaps I will go give that a try.

All told, Brules is probably a good read for Western readers. I think the rest of us, however, will find it a bit nauseating.

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Summary: Wonderful...An American Classic
Review: i'm not a big western fan, but the style pace and depth of this book is just fantastic. Combs isn't afraid to give his main character a few faults which is a refreshing twist to most books where the hero can do no wrong. the politically correct crowd (and vegetarians) are sure to be offended, but that's also part of what makes it great. This book places you in the wild west of the late 1800's and tells it like it surely must have been.

I look forward to reading the sequel.

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Summary: BRULE'S
Review: THIS BOOK BY HARRY COMBS IS FABULOUS. THE DETAILS OF THE AREA ARE SUPERB. AS WE LIVE VERY CLOSE BY AND HAVE BEEN TO THIS SPOT MANY TIMES, WE ARE VERY PLEASED WITH HIS PRECISE DETAIL. THE STORY IS SO EASY TO FOLLOW AND CAPTIVATING, WE COULD NOT WAIT TO OBTAIN THE NEXT 2 BOOKS. MANY OF OUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS IN NORWOOD HAVE ORDERED THIS ON OUR RECOMMENDATION. THANK YOU HARRY COMBS.

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Summary: Brules is the best of the best, and he proves it.
Review: This is one of the best books that I have read about the old west. The detail that Mr. Combs puts into this book is just awsome. After you read this book you will want to go and saddle a horse, strap on you .38 Smith & Wesson, put your model 66 Winchester in its sheath and have your own adventures. If you like Louis L'amour's books then you will love Brules. He is the man that we all wish we could have been, in the time of history when survival of the fittest was the way of the land. This was a hard time that demanded hard men to tame the "wild west". What they got in Brules was one of the harderst and most dangerous men(when rialed) they could have imagined. Brules is one of the men that legends are made of. This IS the best western book that I have read and I highly recommend this book to any person who is fascinated about the time and people.

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Summary: Wonderfu
Review: This is one of the best stories I've ever heard, although I haven't heard many it will be very tough to beat. I've listened to the tape probably 20 times and the 20th was every bit as exciteing,scary,sad and exhillerating as the first. A definate good "listen"! I give it a gazillion stars.

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Summary: My Favorite Novel of the Frontier West
Review: This novel absorbed and transported me as few others of the genre have. Cat Brules is a simple, utterly uneducated, natively ingenious man who suffers extreme hardship and personal loss but continues to wage his wars, trying to overcome both the Comanches and his own devastation, and succeeding in ways he never expected. A professional critic I am certainly not, but an avid reader of many genres - this is in my top five favorite novels of any kind - ever. Read it (but read the unabridged version) and love it.