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La Plata County Series, Book Five: I Knew a Man Who had Six Sons and Squash Blossom
La Plata County Series beloved characters are involved in a tragic crash while flying over Korea! The end of an era is marked with a fire that brings a catastrophic end to the son of the Mississippi woman. The saga that began in a castle in Ireland where James Butler (alias James Wilkerson) was born ends on Sons beloved La Plata River. All is not lost; for out of the wreckage comes the return of a Ute Indian, Squash Blossoms descendent, who hopes to return a piece of the raped land to its native glory. Son brings this group of novels to an end, in spite of overwhelming odds.
404 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1999
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Luther Butler
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Luther Butler lives in Stephenville, Texas. He has been married to Jo Branton Butler for fifty years. They have one son. While in the Navy for two years he contacted polio and was sent to Bethesda Naval Hospital where he was used for a LSD experiment. Discharged honorably from service after almost three years he earned a BD degree to go with his BA from Eastern New Mexico and then an MA in English from Tarleton State University. In 1985 after being seriously hurt he retired from the Texas Department of Agriculture. Barely able to walk and with his vision severely damaged he began to write. His first novel, Preacher, was reviewed by Library Journal for having twenty-one novels published. Texas Christian University used the Preacher in a novels course as did several colleges in St Louis, Missouri. He has been listed in Who's Who for several years. His love for writing continues.
Home page
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Poetry by Luther Butler
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Growing up on a sheep ranch in Colorado
http://lbutlerlaplata.blogspot.com/
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Trip to Mexico down Baja
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Luther Butler lives in Stephenville, Texas. He has been married to Jo Branton Butler for fifty years. They have one son. While in the Navy for two years he contacted polio and was sent to Bethesda Naval Hospital where he was used for a LSD experiment. Discharged honorably from service after almost three years he earned a BD degree to go with his BA from Eastern New Mexico and then an MA in English from Tarleton State University. In 1985 after being seriously hurt he retired from the Texas Department of Agriculture. Barely able to walk and with his vision severely damaged he began to write. His first novel, Preacher, was reviewed by Library Journal for having twenty-one novels published. Texas Christian University used the Preacher in a novels course as did several colleges in St Louis, Missouri. He has been listed in Who's Who for several years. His love for writing continues.
Home page
http://lutherbutler.tripod.com/
Poetry by Luther Butler
http://lutherbutlerspoetry.tripod.com/
Growing up on a sheep ranch in Colorado
http://lbutlerlaplata.blogspot.com/
http://www.blogger.com/profile/2238007
Trip to Mexico down Baja
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel...
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January 6, 2015
The Reluctant Cannibals 4 ½ Stars
Netgalley review.
Here’s the thing. I’m not a food person. Never liked eating much and most of the time it bores me. I also couldn’t care less about wine. I’m the child of an alcoholic and therefore have no interest in drinking wine. That being said, this book is crazy good, even if you aren’t into wine and food.
Short Summery: (Some minor Spoilers) This takes place in Oxford in the U.K. in the 1960’s. A group of professors form a dinning club and they meet regularly and have these big fancy dinners along with wine. Each Professor brings a guest who also suggest dishes for these meals. At one dinner party, Fugu is served (I had to ask my husband and it is indeed true). Fugu you can eat only certain parts of. Well in this book the fish is not cut right and someone dies at the dinner party. Then one of the main characters is diagnosed with a heart condition and is told he would die soon. So of course he eats and drinks and takes up pipe smoking. He then decides he wants his body to be eaten by the club when he dies, so he goes and has a will drawn up.
I don’t think I want to describe more as I don’t want to ruin anything. But this book is a lot of fun.
Love how the club is nicknamed the declining dinning society. The characters are a complete hoot and are very believable. My only complaint is that the ending is a bit anticlimatic.
Cover: I love, love, love the cover. Black and red, great combination of colors.
Spoilers: OMG. The asparagus race (toward the end of the book) almost made me spew what I was drinking. SO funny: “ The Nature of the victory? To be the first to pass water laced with the rich aroma of asparagus.”
Quotes: So many, but the book is so good.
“Indeed. Eat, Drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die.”
“We’re all dying, so we might as well enjoy ourselves during the process.”
“I think the Bible is strickter on shellfish and pork than eating people.”
“He was pulled awake in the small hours of that April night by the unavoidable visceral sense of impending gastric emptying.”
“In his mind, the images of ramming Arthur’s ashes up the rear end of a turkey were proving deeply unsettling.
Netgalley review.
Here’s the thing. I’m not a food person. Never liked eating much and most of the time it bores me. I also couldn’t care less about wine. I’m the child of an alcoholic and therefore have no interest in drinking wine. That being said, this book is crazy good, even if you aren’t into wine and food.
Short Summery: (Some minor Spoilers) This takes place in Oxford in the U.K. in the 1960’s. A group of professors form a dinning club and they meet regularly and have these big fancy dinners along with wine. Each Professor brings a guest who also suggest dishes for these meals. At one dinner party, Fugu is served (I had to ask my husband and it is indeed true). Fugu you can eat only certain parts of. Well in this book the fish is not cut right and someone dies at the dinner party. Then one of the main characters is diagnosed with a heart condition and is told he would die soon. So of course he eats and drinks and takes up pipe smoking. He then decides he wants his body to be eaten by the club when he dies, so he goes and has a will drawn up.
I don’t think I want to describe more as I don’t want to ruin anything. But this book is a lot of fun.
Love how the club is nicknamed the declining dinning society. The characters are a complete hoot and are very believable. My only complaint is that the ending is a bit anticlimatic.
Cover: I love, love, love the cover. Black and red, great combination of colors.
Spoilers: OMG. The asparagus race (toward the end of the book) almost made me spew what I was drinking. SO funny: “ The Nature of the victory? To be the first to pass water laced with the rich aroma of asparagus.”
Quotes: So many, but the book is so good.
“Indeed. Eat, Drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die.”
“We’re all dying, so we might as well enjoy ourselves during the process.”
“I think the Bible is strickter on shellfish and pork than eating people.”
“He was pulled awake in the small hours of that April night by the unavoidable visceral sense of impending gastric emptying.”
“In his mind, the images of ramming Arthur’s ashes up the rear end of a turkey were proving deeply unsettling.
July 25, 2007
I Knew a Man Who Had 6 Sons,James Butler's(alias James Wilkerson)saga comes to an end where it started in La Plata County, Colorado. Son Wilkerson returns home to end his life after a tragic plane crash in Korea. Ironically before Son almost lost his life when his plane went down, D.H., his father lost his life in a burning house set on fire when D.H. threw a kerosene lamp at the Devil.
Squash Blossom brings Henry Jack's son back to the land the Utes were driven from by greedy gold seekers. The Native America buys land from Frank Wilkerson to live on while he teaches at Fort Lewis College.
Squash Blossom brings Henry Jack's son back to the land the Utes were driven from by greedy gold seekers. The Native America buys land from Frank Wilkerson to live on while he teaches at Fort Lewis College.
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