Warlock

By: Oakley Hall, Robert Stone

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality.

First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of modern American novels but a lasting contribution to American fiction.

©1958 Oakley Hall; Introduction copyright 2006 by Robert Stone (P)2018 Tantor

Difficult to get into

The book is hard to get into. I think it’s because the narrator is so awful

book 1 was great

started to get convoluted now I'm going to stretch this out to fifteen words yes yes

Narration is Poor

I’ve heard a thousand audiobooks. This has got to be one of the worst narrated of them all.

Holy characters Batman

The story is ok, there is a whole Lotta nothing happening for a long time. I kept waiting for something exciting to happen and it never came. I guess that's part of the old west, not everything is gripping. pew pew

A rare perfect novel

Finished this a month ago, and I think it’s a masterpiece, a rare perfect book.

Occasionally, I run into these: The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg, and Possession by A.S Byatt to name a few of the novels that God has let us forget about so that they won’t tarnish over the years in the hands of the mob (canons are so messy), but also because He wants to reveal them to His special favorites in the fullness of time. It me. I’m God’s special favorite because he let me know that Warlock exists and now, since you’ve read this far, so are you.

True, the narration leaves something to be desired, but the power of the text soon eclipses these narratorial deficiencies.