Review: CAMPFIRES CRACKLE
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2014
Nice, simple western novelette. So simple, in fact, that anybody could take a western writing 101 course and crank it out as a term paper. With westerns, I look for the sights, sounds, smells, and experience of "the trail". It takes imagination and skill to describe living outdoors with a horse, a bed-role, beans, bacon, and boiled coffee... Yea, Cull"s hero is tough on the outside, hurt on the inside, he shoots the bad guys, and makes a wrong situation right, but I read a western so I can live there. On the trail; the mornings, daytime dust, campfire nights, talking to my horse cause there's no-one around for miles. Any television melodrama has good guys, bad guys, gun-play, and "save the day". But read a couple of Robt B Parker westerns if you wanna live there for a while...PAUL S