The Gunman

The Thorntons, Book 1

De: Kerbit J. Little

Narrado por: Arthur Flavell

The Civil War has ended. Jim and Noble are two rebels who set out from San Francisco searching for gold. While helping a prospector recover his claim, they encounter love, guilt, danger, and violence. They come up against a dying assassin who wants to go out in a blaze of glory and a psychotic mayor with a terrible secret. They help a young farmer whose abusive father becomes set on killing Jim. The Gunman is a story of friendship which illustrates how sacrifice, courage, and love can ultimately triumph over evil. It will make you laugh, move you to tears, and leave you with hope.

©2004 Kerbit Little (P)2016 Kerbit Little

The Gunman

This is one of the best books I've listened to. Jim Thornton and Nobel is partners traveling the west. There is several different things going on. Jim and Nobel meets a prospector and agrees to help him get his mine back. Denver Lutz is a crazy mad mean man that has to have everything he wants. Denver wants a woman (Patrica Day). He has her husband killed (Jack Day). Jim also falls in love with her so he wants to protect her. Obedia is a Mormon and also crazy. He has four wives and sixteen kids. He beats his kids and anyone who disobeys him. He is beating an Indian for stealing a calve for food. Also he is raping his Squaw. Jim rides up on this scene and whips Obedia. Obedia is scared of Jim but promises to kill Jim. There is an excellent storyline and this book is written perfect. I could not stop listening to it. I had to know what was going to happen next. This is a five star book for sure. I will buy the whole series. I think this book was well worth a credit. Arthur Flavell does an excellent job narrating this book. If my review is any help will you please click on the helpful link below. Thank you.

lot rambled on

lost interest so was hard to follow. hope the next one is better I have bought it.

Not like the audio sample

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

The audio sample -- not to mention the title -- gave the impression that this would be an action-packed story about a gunfighter. I'm almost two hours in and so far it's about a greedy Mormon father who mistreats and whips his sons and even strangers for pretty much no reason and rapes women, whether they belong to his "family" or not.

I assume this is backstory and the eldest son will predictably stand up against his father and become the title character. The author's path to that point is, as I said, cliche and predictable and all the whipping and rape has left a bad taste in my mouth anyway.

What could Kerbit J. Little have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

If you haven't hooked me and given me somebody to care about for reasons other than they're being treated poorly by 1:48:45, you're wasting my time. In a screenplay, a page is equal to one minute of screen time. I don't know what that translates to in manuscript pages, but I've heard other authors tell entire stories by the time this guy has gotten his oars in the water.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

He sounds like he took a valium before he started reading.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Very disappointed.