"He invented a gun with five barrels that fired simultaneously and covered three hundred degrees in one blast. A hail of bullets, with a slim part, or what he called Das Dreieck des Wohlstands--The Triangle of Prosperity--inside of which stood the triggerman himself.""That's not a bad idea, actually...
Weet ik nog niet.Ik vind het altijd lastig met engelse boeken om uit te maken of goed geschreven is. Maar ik wil nog steeds verder lezen, dus vooralsnog spreekt het me wel aan...
My non-love for Man Booker continues.Eli and Charlie Sisters are brothers who work for a boss named The Commodore. They're professional killers and they have been charged to leave Oregon, go to California to find a prospector named Herman Warm that has stolen something from the Commodore. They hav...
While this book did not live up to the great cover art it was a fairly entertaining modern take on the Western genre. Listened to the audio version read by John Pruden who did a good job with the first person narration.
A very engaging read about two brothers who are hired killers, set during the California gold rush. The narrator of the book is Eli, one half of the Sisters Brothers and a somewhat unlikely assassin. Eli is portly and thoughtful, with a desire to be loved that is touching given his hopelessness at k...
I'm a little torn about this book. There were moments I genuinely cracked up over some of the absurd adventures, and then there were moments where I was undeniably bored. This book was about nothing, the adventures had nothing to do with anything. (Well, it turns out the book may have actually been ...
Wasn't sure what to expect with this. Cold-blooded killers? One tenderhearted assassin. Funny, sad, eerie. No desire to live during the Gold Rush--too many greedy opportunists. This book was strangely and surprisingly satisfying until the end. I suppose the ending was inevitable but to this reader i...
Rating: 3* of fiveThe Book Report: Achilles and Patroclus in the Old West. Brothers whose adult lives are spent murdering in the service of a venal master, the Commodore, without question or conscience. Eli Sisters, in this story, awakes to conscience, and as is inevitably the case, disaster, ruina...
The Sisters brothers are hired mercenaries by The Commodore. They do his dirty work during the Gold Rush of 1851. But along the way, the younger of the two, Eli, begins to question his life and his life of violence. The book takes us along with Charlie and Eli as they chase down a comically-named ma...
What a strange, engrossing book. I find myself liking most westerns, mainly because most don't seem to be about the West at all. The Wild West setting, instead of being a focal point of the plot, becomes an allegory for some other place and time, or stands in for the general condition of man, or som...
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