This was another Mann Booker Prize Short List and while it was perfectly adequate it did not shine. I am wondering what the Booker judges saw that I didn't. It's basically a Western in which two brothers named Sisters are hired killers searching for a mysterious man. There are some comic bits and some gruesome bits and some sad bits but nothing ever feels fully developed or fleshed out. I enjoyed it but the sum wasn't any greater than its parts. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty was better, that book tore out my heart and trampled all over it, The Sisters Brothers just poked feebly at me from behind a cottonwood tree.
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Well...I was moseying around this here website and saddle up to a critical review of a Western novel that I thought was quite OK...not great...but having a shoot out w "Lonesome Dove" (a four book series published over a 12 year period) isn't very sporting...None of these here books could take "Blood Meridien" in a barroom brawl...but that don't make them no hokey pokey behind a tumbleweed!! And I thought a cottonwood was a snake!!
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