DOC, BY MARY DORIA RUSSELLFor some unknown reason, one of my friends is going through a Western phase. It's a bit baffling to the rest of us, since it's so far removed from our reality, but we all love her dearly, so I decided to be supportive and read this book, which is one of her most recent favo...
What a wonderful book! This is the story of John Henry “Doc” Holliday. The “characters” made famous by the Gunfight at the OK Corral had always been rather one-dimensional to me, however Doria Russell’s writing has brought them to life. This story is both heart-warming and heart-breaking. It’s...
”He began to die when he was twenty-one, but tuberculosis is slow and sly and subtle. The disease took fifteen years to hollow out his lungs so completely they could not longer keep him alive. In all that time, he was allowed a single season of something like happiness.”Doc HollidayThis is the story...
Doc is steeped strong in historical detail; the flow of the writing keeps it going down easy. I love how rich the people are on the page, how we've learned so much about them that small actions toward the end reverberate with meaning. This is the third book I've read by Russell, and the third to use...
Because I am a huge fan of Mary Doria Russell and because I have always been intrigued by Doc Holiday I was excited to read this book. I listened to it on audio and it was excellent! Russell combines story telling with history in such a marvelous manner that the past comes to life. If you like histo...
The lovely and brief tale when Doc Holliday and Earps collide...in a friendly sort of way. And while it does contain lots of guns, whoring, and a murder or two (all things you expect from a good western)its a surprisingly quiet and beautiful tale. A first and last chapters effectively bookend this ...
It's a fine book. She is a terrific writer. Still, it's not my favorite Mary Doria Russell novel (probably because I am not a huge fan of historical westerns). I appreciated the effort made to raise the characters out of the caricatures that popular media and myth have rendered them. I found my...
I have to be honest here and say this is my first Western novel so I had no idea what I was getting myself into and my first thought was if it got too much "shootem-up", I was closing the book and moving on. I finished the book and I was completely in awe of what I have been missing in this genre. ...
NO SPOILERS!!!!!I chose to read this book because I very much liked Mary Doria Russell's novel [b:A Thread of Grace|16047|A Thread of Grace|Mary Doria Russell|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320549126s/16047.jpg|882031]. I enjoy historical fiction, but not science fiction, the genre of several other o...
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