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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm currently in the middle of "The Ox-Bow Incident" by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, but I'm flailing a bit. I've always been a fan of the Western genre, and I understand that this was intended to be more of a statement on justice, human nature, and civilization in general ...<snip, snip, yada, yada> ...It's very short, so I don't think I'll have too much trouble finishing it, but it's going to have to work very hard to redeem itself from its lackluster start.
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It didn't work hard enough.
Maybe it was important in 1940, but it certainly didn't seem to age very well in my opinion. The characters just weren't up to the task the author assigned them.