Better read this one. ( )

two men with very different agendas push their endurance beyond all faith and hope to find a little girl captured by the Comanche.

So ends my yearly Western read.

3 stars-- for initiating a really good discussion on perception brilliantly.* It felt like a lot of older books do though, like [b:Random Harvest|413618|Random Harvest|James Hilton|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1358758527s/413618.jpg|6860]. A good amount of the time nothing really happened. It was a lot of vignettes, strung together to make an experience. I wish it was shorter and easier to teach in schools.

Having grown up loving the film, through no one's fault but my own, I was naturally heart-broken at certain points of the story, and pleased with others. * I think, perhaps, that the film holds up better than the book.** But, again, I make that statement because I saw the film first and I projected it onto the text. But it was hard to escape the stark tension in the film.


*That belt buckle, though!?! And that final chapter!?!
** in everything but the racism. See previous *. ( )

Gritty western about the search for a Comanche captive ( )

I have loved the film for years now and wasn't disappointed by the book. Like a good story's it was richer in detail and more in depth character development than film. Recommend if you love Westerns. ( )