I finished
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt this morning. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Eli and Charlie Sisters are quirky, sociopathic gunslingers—and I'm fond of quirkiness... in fictional characters as well as real ones. I was reminded of a Cohen brothers film as I was reading it. I saw one blurb that suggested that if Cormac McCarthy had a sense of humor, he might have written a Western similar to this. I find that to be an apt description. It was a fairly short book, but I would still say that the page-count outlasted the bulk of my enthusiasm by just a tad. The journey can be the greatest journey in the history of the world, but if the destination is a dentist office..... well, you get the picture.
This was another title from the 2011 Man Booker Prize long-list. A first-person narrative told in the dead-pan manner of Eli Sisters... the
Romantic of the two killers.
I'm going to read Terry Brooks' latest duology (
Bearers of the Black Staff and
The Measure of the Magic). I waited until they were both published. These are purely nostalgic reads for me, as the luster has mostly worn off of Terry's writing (for me I'm talking here), but I feel the need to reward any fantasy author who writes a series that is ONE BOOK AWAY FROM BEING A STAND-ALONE STORY!!
