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Far Bright Star

by Robert Olmstead

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The year is 1916. The enemy, Pancho Villa, is elusive. The terrain is unforgiving, the intense heat and dust both relentless and overpowering. Through the mountains and across the long dry stretches of Mexico, Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced horse soldiers on seemingly fruitless searches. Napoleon has weathered the storms of battle with a toughness that has become like a second skin, with the Rattler, a horse who's as flinty and seasoned as he. But this time, Napoleon can't control one of his young soldiers who has a penchant for reckless, dramatic actions--and who singlehandedly, in his desire to prove himself, makes a move that is the beginning of the end. Before long, Napoleon's patrol is at the mercy of an enemy who is intent not only on killing Napoleon's men but on something much bigger: avenging a brutal act.… (more)
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Most of this story is about the thoughts of an American soldier as he drives a car from the 1916 punitive expedition in Mexico to his home in the United States for a funeral. I found it boring and cannot understand the rave reviews that consider it a classic. ( )
1 vote JoeHamilton | Jul 21, 2020 |
[Far Bright Star] was the story of a career army man in Mexico searching for Poncho Villa. He is attacked by a gang and nearly dies. Man's overwhelming will to live is the only attribute given him other than violence. ( )
  snash | Jun 7, 2020 |
I'm nauseated, the book is too violent to read. ( )
1 vote nhukhue | Aug 30, 2018 |
Recommend by Luis Albert Urrea on his Facebook page.
My grandfather loved Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour. Wonder what he would have made of this. ( )
  CydMelcher | Feb 5, 2016 |
Recommend by Luis Albert Urrea on his Facebook page.
My grandfather loved Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour. Wonder what he would have made of this. ( )
  CydMelcher | Feb 5, 2016 |
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"Far Bright Star" makes the reader bleed with the characters and sweat with the intensity of the sun.
 
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Think when we talk of horses, that you see them
Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
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Thus far the summer of 1916 had been a siege of wrathy wind and heated air. Dust and light. Sand and light. Wind and light.
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The year is 1916. The enemy, Pancho Villa, is elusive. The terrain is unforgiving, the intense heat and dust both relentless and overpowering. Through the mountains and across the long dry stretches of Mexico, Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced horse soldiers on seemingly fruitless searches. Napoleon has weathered the storms of battle with a toughness that has become like a second skin, with the Rattler, a horse who's as flinty and seasoned as he. But this time, Napoleon can't control one of his young soldiers who has a penchant for reckless, dramatic actions--and who singlehandedly, in his desire to prove himself, makes a move that is the beginning of the end. Before long, Napoleon's patrol is at the mercy of an enemy who is intent not only on killing Napoleon's men but on something much bigger: avenging a brutal act.

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