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The Winter Family
Spanning the better part of three decades, The Winter Family traverses America's harsh, untamed terrain, both serving and opposing the fierce advance of civilization. Among its twisted specimens, the Winter Family includes the psychopathic killer Quentin Ross, the mean and moronic Empire brothers, the impassive ex-slave Fred Johnson, and the dangerous child prodigy Lukas Shakespeare But at the malevolent center of this ultraviolent storm is their cold, hardened leader, Augustus Winter—a man with an almost pathological resistance to the rules of society and a preternatural gift for butchery.
From their service as political thugs in a brutal Chicago election to their work as bounty hunters in the deserts of Arizona, there's a hypnotic logic to Winter's grim borderland morality that plays out, time and again, in ruthless carnage.
With its haunting, hard-edged style, The Winter Family is a feverishly paced meditation on human nature and the dark contradictions of progress.
From their service as political thugs in a brutal Chicago election to their work as bounty hunters in the deserts of Arizona, there's a hypnotic logic to Winter's grim borderland morality that plays out, time and again, in ruthless carnage.
With its haunting, hard-edged style, The Winter Family is a feverishly paced meditation on human nature and the dark contradictions of progress.
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First published April 14, 2015
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July 13, 2018
The sparsely settled West was lawless and chaotic. Men dueled, drank, poached, grazed their cattle, and cut trees on the land of others. The sold whiskey to Indians, raped and whored. Banditry was endemic. Men took what they wanted and disappeared.
wow. so, lots of people die in this book.
and it's fun as shit.
i personally love a good western/grit lit novel and am willing to withstand all of the unsavory things the genre entails: causal murder, torture, rape, and scalping among them. if you prefer our modern sanitized america with its organic produce and child-safety locks on the silverware drawers, you will not like this. this is rowdy olde america - kids with guns and porcine blood from the slaughterhouse running insalubriously in the gutters. this is a land without accountability until the wrong man learns your name. there are no heroes here.
august winter starts the novel as a young boy with a back twisted and crisscrossed with a thousand scars, looping in and around one another like a pile of rope or a ball of rattlesnakes, courtesy of his reverend father's lessons, and he grows into the hardest man you will ever meet. while fighting in the civil war on the union side at age fifteen, he is exposed to the violence of his world, and the lessons in cruelty continue.
the war encourages all types of violence: masters kill slaves, slaves kill masters, men hang slaves for killing masters, soldiers on both sides kill dispassionately in the permissive climate of a civility suspended by war, and opportunistic sadists join up just for the pleasure of killing. entire towns of civilians are sacrificed for strategy, and the genocide of native tribes is perpetuated by soldiers as well as warring tribes.
"The world's a hard fucking place…A little hard to get by with just please."
after the war, winter finds that he has become an outlaw - that those who gave the orders are all too willing to wash their hands of the unpleasantness they set in motion, and along with other similarly-discarded individuals, he crosses this wild america, providing the muscle for those too squeamish or civilized to do more than give the orders. these men form their own kind of family (HENCE THE TITLE), but it's a singular kind of family comprised of people who have saved each others' lives but don't necessarily trust one another, just a shifting group of men who have nothing to lose and are well-suited to the life of a mercenary.
"Not everyone in this room is smart, or handsome. Ain't nobody in here a good person. But everyone here has fought together. Everyone here has put his life on the line for everyone else. Everyone here was out in the woods together, out in enemy country, with bushwhackers looking to take our scalps and Klansmen looking to burn us alive. Everyone here put everything he had in the pot. Everybody".
winter is watchful, careful, and ruthless and he disdains the hypocrisy of those who use the law as a shield while twisting it to keep themselves in power and safe from scrutiny. he understands that violence springing from idealistic intentions is no better than killing for profit. some of his speeches made me think of my future husband's:
best scene ever when addressing the hypocrisy of the system.
this in no way makes winter a hero, or even an antihero. he is just a man who sees the world as it is - a violent grasping place where opportunities arise for men willing to recognize it when they see it. cowardly men hidden underneath white robes, dishonest politicians exploiting newly-arrived immigrants, genocide in the name of progress - all offer winter and his men a place to exercise the skills they learned in war, by the very men who are now horrified by their actions. august's worldview is chilling, but it isn't entirely inaccurate. he has adapted to the violence powering the entire machine of america, but at least he's not bullshitting himself about it, like so many on both sides of the law:
It was the age of the outlaw, but the Winter Family were not like the other bandits, who hit soft targets for money and then hid with those who would hide them. Other bandits carefully crafted a romantic image, courted the newspapers, and dispensed largesse like Robin Hood. The James gang cast themselves as Confederate partisans, while the Reno Gang started out as bounty jumpers, accepting money to enlist in the Union Army and then deserting. The Winter Family never gave a damn what anyone thought of them, and if men gave them shelter, they did it out of fear.
it's a story of the history of america, and an acknowledgement of the cruelty that made it all possible. in a very "sing of walls" moment, winter speechifies:
"Everything out there is a lie," Winter said. "Can't you see it? It was them behind us in Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi. It was them behind us yesterday. And then they just pretend. They just talk. 'Cause they can't face this."
Winter made a gesture that encompassed the blood, the flesh, the clattering steel and steam, the darkness, the herds of terrified pigs.
"Jan," Winter said. "This is what's real. This is how the meat you eat gets on your plate. This is how everything works. Everything they tell you is just a lie to hide it."
rereading what i just wrote, i realize i made it sound like some kind of cranky anti-america polemic, but it's not. this is all pretty standard in neo-western fare - an honest examination of the lawlessness of the times and how the brutality of war and territorial expansion carried over into the supposedly civilized areas of politics and business. but it's way more action and shoot 'em up than moral exhortation. lots of killing, many unexpected turns. there were some things i didn't understand, motive-wise, around the 3/4 mark, but by that point, you're all caught up in momentum and rains of bullets, so you're less concerned about the "why" and more concerned about who's still gonna be left at the end of it all.
it's a propulsive, bloody romp for those of you into that sort of thing.
and as a shout-out, i just have to say that sevenkiller is one of the most phenomenally creepy bad guys i have ever read
bang bang bang.
good times.
come to my blog!
wow. so, lots of people die in this book.
and it's fun as shit.
i personally love a good western/grit lit novel and am willing to withstand all of the unsavory things the genre entails: causal murder, torture, rape, and scalping among them. if you prefer our modern sanitized america with its organic produce and child-safety locks on the silverware drawers, you will not like this. this is rowdy olde america - kids with guns and porcine blood from the slaughterhouse running insalubriously in the gutters. this is a land without accountability until the wrong man learns your name. there are no heroes here.
august winter starts the novel as a young boy with a back twisted and crisscrossed with a thousand scars, looping in and around one another like a pile of rope or a ball of rattlesnakes, courtesy of his reverend father's lessons, and he grows into the hardest man you will ever meet. while fighting in the civil war on the union side at age fifteen, he is exposed to the violence of his world, and the lessons in cruelty continue.
the war encourages all types of violence: masters kill slaves, slaves kill masters, men hang slaves for killing masters, soldiers on both sides kill dispassionately in the permissive climate of a civility suspended by war, and opportunistic sadists join up just for the pleasure of killing. entire towns of civilians are sacrificed for strategy, and the genocide of native tribes is perpetuated by soldiers as well as warring tribes.
"The world's a hard fucking place…A little hard to get by with just please."
after the war, winter finds that he has become an outlaw - that those who gave the orders are all too willing to wash their hands of the unpleasantness they set in motion, and along with other similarly-discarded individuals, he crosses this wild america, providing the muscle for those too squeamish or civilized to do more than give the orders. these men form their own kind of family (HENCE THE TITLE), but it's a singular kind of family comprised of people who have saved each others' lives but don't necessarily trust one another, just a shifting group of men who have nothing to lose and are well-suited to the life of a mercenary.
"Not everyone in this room is smart, or handsome. Ain't nobody in here a good person. But everyone here has fought together. Everyone here has put his life on the line for everyone else. Everyone here was out in the woods together, out in enemy country, with bushwhackers looking to take our scalps and Klansmen looking to burn us alive. Everyone here put everything he had in the pot. Everybody".
winter is watchful, careful, and ruthless and he disdains the hypocrisy of those who use the law as a shield while twisting it to keep themselves in power and safe from scrutiny. he understands that violence springing from idealistic intentions is no better than killing for profit. some of his speeches made me think of my future husband's:
best scene ever when addressing the hypocrisy of the system.
this in no way makes winter a hero, or even an antihero. he is just a man who sees the world as it is - a violent grasping place where opportunities arise for men willing to recognize it when they see it. cowardly men hidden underneath white robes, dishonest politicians exploiting newly-arrived immigrants, genocide in the name of progress - all offer winter and his men a place to exercise the skills they learned in war, by the very men who are now horrified by their actions. august's worldview is chilling, but it isn't entirely inaccurate. he has adapted to the violence powering the entire machine of america, but at least he's not bullshitting himself about it, like so many on both sides of the law:
It was the age of the outlaw, but the Winter Family were not like the other bandits, who hit soft targets for money and then hid with those who would hide them. Other bandits carefully crafted a romantic image, courted the newspapers, and dispensed largesse like Robin Hood. The James gang cast themselves as Confederate partisans, while the Reno Gang started out as bounty jumpers, accepting money to enlist in the Union Army and then deserting. The Winter Family never gave a damn what anyone thought of them, and if men gave them shelter, they did it out of fear.
it's a story of the history of america, and an acknowledgement of the cruelty that made it all possible. in a very "sing of walls" moment, winter speechifies:
"Everything out there is a lie," Winter said. "Can't you see it? It was them behind us in Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi. It was them behind us yesterday. And then they just pretend. They just talk. 'Cause they can't face this."
Winter made a gesture that encompassed the blood, the flesh, the clattering steel and steam, the darkness, the herds of terrified pigs.
"Jan," Winter said. "This is what's real. This is how the meat you eat gets on your plate. This is how everything works. Everything they tell you is just a lie to hide it."
rereading what i just wrote, i realize i made it sound like some kind of cranky anti-america polemic, but it's not. this is all pretty standard in neo-western fare - an honest examination of the lawlessness of the times and how the brutality of war and territorial expansion carried over into the supposedly civilized areas of politics and business. but it's way more action and shoot 'em up than moral exhortation. lots of killing, many unexpected turns. there were some things i didn't understand, motive-wise, around the 3/4 mark, but by that point, you're all caught up in momentum and rains of bullets, so you're less concerned about the "why" and more concerned about who's still gonna be left at the end of it all.
it's a propulsive, bloody romp for those of you into that sort of thing.
and as a shout-out, i just have to say that sevenkiller is one of the most phenomenally creepy bad guys i have ever read
bang bang bang.
good times.
come to my blog!
April 14, 2015
I veered away from my usual genres when I requested this book from Net Galley.
This is mostly a western with a side of Chicago. In a steady push westward from the burning of Atlanta, this story spans the years from 1864 through 1900. Even the so-called civilized city of Chicago is only 1 step away from life in the brutal wild west. In fact, it might be even more brutal where its politics are concerned.
The head of the Winter family, which isn't a family by birth, is Augustus Winter. Golden eyed. Inscrutable. Cruel and seemingly without conscience, Augustus leads his band of mad men across the country. This group isn't pleasant, but they're well drawn and make for fascinating reading. With breakneck speed the reader is pulled along with this group, even at times when the reader is reluctant to go.
The history of our country is brutal and this book does not shy away from the many crimes against humanity that were perpetrated back then. I like to think that America has grown and learned from her history, but sometimes I wonder. I also wonder what guise Augustus Winter would be employing, if he were alive today. Head of ISIS? Leader of the Taliban? He may be a fictional character, but what he stood for is alive and well, even today, and I find that to be sad.
This book is due to be published in April of 2015. I highly recommend it to those interested in the history of the United States, as well as to fans of horror and westerns.
*I received a free e-ARC of this book from Net Galley, in exchange for an honest review.*
This is mostly a western with a side of Chicago. In a steady push westward from the burning of Atlanta, this story spans the years from 1864 through 1900. Even the so-called civilized city of Chicago is only 1 step away from life in the brutal wild west. In fact, it might be even more brutal where its politics are concerned.
The head of the Winter family, which isn't a family by birth, is Augustus Winter. Golden eyed. Inscrutable. Cruel and seemingly without conscience, Augustus leads his band of mad men across the country. This group isn't pleasant, but they're well drawn and make for fascinating reading. With breakneck speed the reader is pulled along with this group, even at times when the reader is reluctant to go.
The history of our country is brutal and this book does not shy away from the many crimes against humanity that were perpetrated back then. I like to think that America has grown and learned from her history, but sometimes I wonder. I also wonder what guise Augustus Winter would be employing, if he were alive today. Head of ISIS? Leader of the Taliban? He may be a fictional character, but what he stood for is alive and well, even today, and I find that to be sad.
This book is due to be published in April of 2015. I highly recommend it to those interested in the history of the United States, as well as to fans of horror and westerns.
*I received a free e-ARC of this book from Net Galley, in exchange for an honest review.*
April 15, 2015
My Thoughts
I was really looking forward to reading this book. I was expecting a lot of action, blood, guts and gore. Sadly, for me, it fell totally flat. I kept waiting for something exciting and when I got to the end, I thought - really?
This book is getting excellent reviews on Goodreads. I am but one reader in a vast sea of many and it would be presumptuous of me to think the problem is with the book. Not every book is meant for every reader and this book was just not for me.
Thanks to Doubleday, via Netgalley, for allowing me to read this in exchange for an unbiased review.
I was really looking forward to reading this book. I was expecting a lot of action, blood, guts and gore. Sadly, for me, it fell totally flat. I kept waiting for something exciting and when I got to the end, I thought - really?
This book is getting excellent reviews on Goodreads. I am but one reader in a vast sea of many and it would be presumptuous of me to think the problem is with the book. Not every book is meant for every reader and this book was just not for me.
Thanks to Doubleday, via Netgalley, for allowing me to read this in exchange for an unbiased review.
March 4, 2015
“This book caught me completely by surprise. The Winter Family is about a ruthless group of outlaws who come together during Sherman’s March to the Sea and continue to wreak havoc through Chicago, Phoenix, Oklahoma and California during the subsequent decades. I’m not usually a western fan, but I couldn’t stop reading, desperately turning the pages. I just had to know what they would do next and how after everything the story could possibly end!” - Lauren W., of the Doubleday Marketing Department and new fan of Western-Thriller-noirs!
July 10, 2015
“And now he was perfectly conscious that Winter’s words were inspiring in him the feeling that he, Noah, had always inspired in others: That what he had believed to be the iron laws of the universe were merely his own prejudices, a tottering shanty built of questions, a stack of assumptions all the way down. That the marketplace was a deep, dark pool of chaos, and that this man was its true apostle.
But then he shook himself, blinked, and remembered that Winter was just a murderous lunatic, brought here by his brother.”
I was expecting this to be more Wild West-y, but while the book begins in Oklahoma, its five vignettes about the Winter family take place all over the country. I hadn’t planned on Georgia after the Civil War or 1870s Chicago right before an election - the Republicans are the good guys?! - but although I struggled a bit at the beginning, Jackman can take disparate settings & make them hang together beautifully. Winter’s story is told in a series of specific events bracketed by summaries of the atrocities that he and his family commit as they range around. This device is effective inasmuch as even though at some point I realized that I hadn't seen Winter do anything more than kill one of the soldiers who tortured him in Georgia, with every page I turned I expected him to casually murder whatever character he was dealing with. Winter gets a new suit - why not kill the tailor? Winter returns to his childhood home & runs into the old couple who’d occasionally taken care of him in between beatings from his preacher father - why not kill those two? He's so effectively written as both filled with nothingness & almost mythically untouchable by the law that everyone he comes in contact with seems automatically marked by death by virtue of breathing the same air as he. Although there are abominations galore committed by every member of the family, Augustus is often on the periphery during the action, watching his henchmen darting into battle, singing ridiculous hymns and taking crack shots at the law-abiding, but for all that you rarely see him do anything worse than any of the other guys, it’s still easy to get caught up in the terror he inspires. Everyone who says, “He’s just a man,” learns their lesson soon enough.
Mildly amusing – Bill read this while I was reading The Library at Mount Char and then we switched books. I told him I was having a hard time getting into this because it was so violent & he did a double take & said, “For god’s sake, at least Auggie never roasted anyone alive in a giant barbecue grill.” Which, yeah, I suppose he’s right and TLAMC is pretty freaking violent, but it’s fantastic violence & this is much grittier & it gets to me a bit. I can read about David & the golden bull and wince, but stuff like this: “The Winter family emerged from the cornfield behind a farmhouse near the edge of town. A woman drawing water saw them. She let the bucket she was holding tumble into the well and she ran, shrieking, into the house . . . The Empire brothers and a few of the rowdier ones followed Winter inside. Charlie Empire was already unbuckling his pants as he hopped through the back door” is much more gruesome if you ask me. Anyhow, if you're into gross, gritchy westerns that don't offer a lot of redemption or closure (although the death of one particular character about 2/3rds of the way through, though it could have been a lot more drawn out in my opinion, was worth my price of admission) but are entertaining in spite of all that, you could do a lot worse than this book.
But then he shook himself, blinked, and remembered that Winter was just a murderous lunatic, brought here by his brother.”
I was expecting this to be more Wild West-y, but while the book begins in Oklahoma, its five vignettes about the Winter family take place all over the country. I hadn’t planned on Georgia after the Civil War or 1870s Chicago right before an election - the Republicans are the good guys?! - but although I struggled a bit at the beginning, Jackman can take disparate settings & make them hang together beautifully. Winter’s story is told in a series of specific events bracketed by summaries of the atrocities that he and his family commit as they range around. This device is effective inasmuch as even though at some point I realized that I hadn't seen Winter do anything more than kill one of the soldiers who tortured him in Georgia, with every page I turned I expected him to casually murder whatever character he was dealing with. Winter gets a new suit - why not kill the tailor? Winter returns to his childhood home & runs into the old couple who’d occasionally taken care of him in between beatings from his preacher father - why not kill those two? He's so effectively written as both filled with nothingness & almost mythically untouchable by the law that everyone he comes in contact with seems automatically marked by death by virtue of breathing the same air as he. Although there are abominations galore committed by every member of the family, Augustus is often on the periphery during the action, watching his henchmen darting into battle, singing ridiculous hymns and taking crack shots at the law-abiding, but for all that you rarely see him do anything worse than any of the other guys, it’s still easy to get caught up in the terror he inspires. Everyone who says, “He’s just a man,” learns their lesson soon enough.
Mildly amusing – Bill read this while I was reading The Library at Mount Char and then we switched books. I told him I was having a hard time getting into this because it was so violent & he did a double take & said, “For god’s sake, at least Auggie never roasted anyone alive in a giant barbecue grill.” Which, yeah, I suppose he’s right and TLAMC is pretty freaking violent, but it’s fantastic violence & this is much grittier & it gets to me a bit. I can read about David & the golden bull and wince, but stuff like this: “The Winter family emerged from the cornfield behind a farmhouse near the edge of town. A woman drawing water saw them. She let the bucket she was holding tumble into the well and she ran, shrieking, into the house . . . The Empire brothers and a few of the rowdier ones followed Winter inside. Charlie Empire was already unbuckling his pants as he hopped through the back door” is much more gruesome if you ask me. Anyhow, if you're into gross, gritchy westerns that don't offer a lot of redemption or closure (although the death of one particular character about 2/3rds of the way through, though it could have been a lot more drawn out in my opinion, was worth my price of admission) but are entertaining in spite of all that, you could do a lot worse than this book.
February 9, 2015
*I received an ARC from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*
This is the kind of book that all other books should aspire to be. It is dark and gritty and full of emotional complexity. It is full of bad people who do terrible things and have terrible things done to them. It's about war and brutality, and how people can believe themselves to be good and righteous and yet do horrendous things because they believe in their 'goodness' so much that they can't look past it. It is, in a word, brilliant.
"The world's a hard fucking place…A little hard to get by with just please."
More than anything, The Winter Family is a book about humanity.
"People don't even really make this thing; it's this thing that makes people. It's as natural as a dream. It's meaner than me, Bill. And it's never going to die."
Augustus Winter, the leader of the Winter Family, is a brutal killer with a twisted sense of justice. He sees the world as it is, a bloody mess of hate and greed where men prey on the weak. Where 'good' men are allowed to get away with their crimes because they conform to the new laws of society. A society that is as corrupt and greedy as its people.
"But then what's justice? It's men forcing themselves on the world. You see? I couldn't break the rules and escape. For their rules to be real they have to spread over every inch of the earth. There can't ever be one free space."
The west is slowly becoming more developed, the Native Americans are being killed for their land or forced into reservations, and the wild places of the land are disappearing. The Winter Family is becoming a relic of the past.
"I got news for you. The war was civilization. That was it! You ain't fighting civilization, Winter! There's no civilization out here for you to fight. But it's coming. And it's a whole lot bigger and meaner than you, friend. And it's not going to have no use for you when it gets here."
There are no heroes, no pure souls. Just blood and death and shifting loyalties.
A solid five stars! I'd recommend it to anyone who doesn't mind having a bloody good time.
This is the kind of book that all other books should aspire to be. It is dark and gritty and full of emotional complexity. It is full of bad people who do terrible things and have terrible things done to them. It's about war and brutality, and how people can believe themselves to be good and righteous and yet do horrendous things because they believe in their 'goodness' so much that they can't look past it. It is, in a word, brilliant.
"The world's a hard fucking place…A little hard to get by with just please."
More than anything, The Winter Family is a book about humanity.
"People don't even really make this thing; it's this thing that makes people. It's as natural as a dream. It's meaner than me, Bill. And it's never going to die."
Augustus Winter, the leader of the Winter Family, is a brutal killer with a twisted sense of justice. He sees the world as it is, a bloody mess of hate and greed where men prey on the weak. Where 'good' men are allowed to get away with their crimes because they conform to the new laws of society. A society that is as corrupt and greedy as its people.
"But then what's justice? It's men forcing themselves on the world. You see? I couldn't break the rules and escape. For their rules to be real they have to spread over every inch of the earth. There can't ever be one free space."
The west is slowly becoming more developed, the Native Americans are being killed for their land or forced into reservations, and the wild places of the land are disappearing. The Winter Family is becoming a relic of the past.
"I got news for you. The war was civilization. That was it! You ain't fighting civilization, Winter! There's no civilization out here for you to fight. But it's coming. And it's a whole lot bigger and meaner than you, friend. And it's not going to have no use for you when it gets here."
There are no heroes, no pure souls. Just blood and death and shifting loyalties.
A solid five stars! I'd recommend it to anyone who doesn't mind having a bloody good time.
May 4, 2015
This review was originally written for the Historical Novel Review.
August Winter is the leader of a hardened band of killers, men he picked up during his service in the Union army and his banditry afterwards. Among them are psychopaths, rapists, an ex-slave, and a tortured Indian. These men terrorize the countryside and urban streets, from Sherman’s March to the Sea, to the brutal streets of Chicago, to the deserts of Arizona and Mexico. Spanning three decades, their story is one of tremendous violence, immorality, and carnage.
Jackman’s writing is mesmerizing, and very well done. He sets you deep in the world of the 1860s through the 1880s – the American West as it was opening up to modernity with the advance of steam engines, railroads, and brutal politics. It isn’t the rosy picture so often depicted in Hollywood, at least from yesteryear. Rather, this is the story of the American West from the perspective of the killers and criminals that were so often at the forefront of civilization’s advance.
To call this novel a dark and gritty Western would be a tremendous understatement. We spend its entirety with the worst of men, and Jackman seems to revel in their cruelty and evil. There’s no redemption, little in the way of justice, and nothing good to hold on to. There’s no silver lining, no ray of hope. Just despair and evil. Though I admire Jackman’s storytelling, I couldn’t stomach the graphic violence and seemingly endless wanton brutality.
August Winter is the leader of a hardened band of killers, men he picked up during his service in the Union army and his banditry afterwards. Among them are psychopaths, rapists, an ex-slave, and a tortured Indian. These men terrorize the countryside and urban streets, from Sherman’s March to the Sea, to the brutal streets of Chicago, to the deserts of Arizona and Mexico. Spanning three decades, their story is one of tremendous violence, immorality, and carnage.
Jackman’s writing is mesmerizing, and very well done. He sets you deep in the world of the 1860s through the 1880s – the American West as it was opening up to modernity with the advance of steam engines, railroads, and brutal politics. It isn’t the rosy picture so often depicted in Hollywood, at least from yesteryear. Rather, this is the story of the American West from the perspective of the killers and criminals that were so often at the forefront of civilization’s advance.
To call this novel a dark and gritty Western would be a tremendous understatement. We spend its entirety with the worst of men, and Jackman seems to revel in their cruelty and evil. There’s no redemption, little in the way of justice, and nothing good to hold on to. There’s no silver lining, no ray of hope. Just despair and evil. Though I admire Jackman’s storytelling, I couldn’t stomach the graphic violence and seemingly endless wanton brutality.
March 5, 2015
I picked up a copy of this book because the words "psychopathic killer" and "hyperkinetic Western noir" caught my attention. This book did not disappoint in the killing aspect. There were a lot of bodies piling up quickly as the story progressed. Yet, even with this factor, I did not find any of the characters that intriguing. They were just alright. Thus the story never really grabbed me and pulled me in and embraced me. After a while I found myself just drifting along skimming the story. Again only because I wanted to see how it would all play out that I did stick with the book. I could though see this book being turned into a movie produced by Quentin Tarantino. This style of book is right up that alley.
Warning to readers as there is language used.
Warning to readers as there is language used.
December 18, 2022
L’équivalent littéraire d’un western spaghetti réalisé par Tarantino. Les personnages ne sont pas d’une grande profondeur, mais c’est hautement divertissant et il n’y a absolument aucune longueur ou temps mort. Le roman est dérivé d’une série de nouvelles donc la structure est très épisodique, mais ça ne m’a pas posé problème. Plus près des westerns de Zahler que de McMurtry.
7.5/10
7.5/10
September 14, 2015
The Winter Family opens like a hyperkinetic Tarantino-directed Western (there's even a German character for Christoph Waltz to sink his teeth into), with blood and gore and mayhem. The setting is 1889 Oklahoma and it's obvious that an era is drawing to a close: As Augustus Winter (leader of his eponymous gang) says –
Having started with an ending, author Clifford Jackman then sends us back to the gang's origin as a small unit of Union soldiers who, while participating in Sherman's March to the Sea, extend their role as “foragers” to include rape and mutilation, the destruction of industry and agriculture, the fomenting of violence amongst freed slaves, murder (even of those within their own unit who don't go with the flow), and the spreading of general terror. Although these acts were all carried out under the direct orders of their sociopathic lieutenant Quentin Ross, it is while being waterboarded (?!) by some Confederate soldiers that Winter becomes the man – the leader – he is destined to be: All they were doing was baptizing him. Along the way they pick up a giant of a freed slave and an alcoholic Indian, and when the Civil War is finally over, officialdom denies having given this unit their orders and the gang becomes outlaws; mercenaries for hire.
What's most important about the Winter Family is that they are entirely free of ideology – they'll ride against the KKK or join them to rob a train (okay, only Winter himself actually joined that holdup, to the disgust of some of the others) – and their services are often paid for by the same “civilised” people who must officially denounce their thuggery. They are brought into the Chicago municipal election of 1872 by the Republican Party in order to prevent the Democrats from rigging yet another vote, they're used as bounty hunters in the 1880s to track down Geronimo and collect scalps along the way, and if compensated, they're not opposed to wiping out entire Indian villages that stand in the way of “progress”. The point is made repeatedly that the Winter Family is simply the flipside of the coin that represents democracy and capitalism and civilisation, and if the folks who officially run the show in America don't like what they see when they look at the Winter Family, it's because they don't like what they recognise in themselves.
In the big picture, I did enjoy this story in a guilty-pleasure-Tarantino-bloodbath-kind-of-way; I enjoyed that the Winter Family were neither heroes nor anti-heroes that we're meant to cheer for – there's never any doubt that these are bad men doing bad things – but while often subtle, the overlay of politics (like ending with a view of oil derricks pumping away inexorably into an unknown future) seems an imposition from our own time: no matter how Winter philosophises that the march of progress is “meaner than me”, I don't think I buy it as an authentic point-of-view for him. And some of the writing seems a bit clunky, with some jarring metaphors that took me out of the era:
And there were repetitious phrases that I think could have been better edited:
Now, I'm only being picky because The Winter Family was recently announced as a title on the 2015 Giller Prize longlist and it's up against some strong literary titles: if this is meant as a serious work of literature, then I'm going to treat it seriously, and to a degree, I found this book to be a bit amateurish in execution but very interesting in intent. The section set in Chicago was my favourite – with the stench of the stockyards and the dirty politics and the financier who is destroyed by the very innovations that he loves – and the character of Augustus Winter was well-drawn and fascinating to me. There is much to like about The Winter Family and it serves as an impressive debut for Clifford Jackman.
Ten years ago if the law was on you, why, you'd just run into the woods. There was always more country. Wasn't there, Freddy? You remember that feeling right after the war? Like you could just keep moving forever? Now it's just Oklahoma. And after the big land run in April, Oklahoma's not even Oklahoma anymore...We need to cash out. And this is it. Right now.
Having started with an ending, author Clifford Jackman then sends us back to the gang's origin as a small unit of Union soldiers who, while participating in Sherman's March to the Sea, extend their role as “foragers” to include rape and mutilation, the destruction of industry and agriculture, the fomenting of violence amongst freed slaves, murder (even of those within their own unit who don't go with the flow), and the spreading of general terror. Although these acts were all carried out under the direct orders of their sociopathic lieutenant Quentin Ross, it is while being waterboarded (?!) by some Confederate soldiers that Winter becomes the man – the leader – he is destined to be: All they were doing was baptizing him. Along the way they pick up a giant of a freed slave and an alcoholic Indian, and when the Civil War is finally over, officialdom denies having given this unit their orders and the gang becomes outlaws; mercenaries for hire.
What's most important about the Winter Family is that they are entirely free of ideology – they'll ride against the KKK or join them to rob a train (okay, only Winter himself actually joined that holdup, to the disgust of some of the others) – and their services are often paid for by the same “civilised” people who must officially denounce their thuggery. They are brought into the Chicago municipal election of 1872 by the Republican Party in order to prevent the Democrats from rigging yet another vote, they're used as bounty hunters in the 1880s to track down Geronimo and collect scalps along the way, and if compensated, they're not opposed to wiping out entire Indian villages that stand in the way of “progress”. The point is made repeatedly that the Winter Family is simply the flipside of the coin that represents democracy and capitalism and civilisation, and if the folks who officially run the show in America don't like what they see when they look at the Winter Family, it's because they don't like what they recognise in themselves.
In the big picture, I did enjoy this story in a guilty-pleasure-Tarantino-bloodbath-kind-of-way; I enjoyed that the Winter Family were neither heroes nor anti-heroes that we're meant to cheer for – there's never any doubt that these are bad men doing bad things – but while often subtle, the overlay of politics (like ending with a view of oil derricks pumping away inexorably into an unknown future) seems an imposition from our own time: no matter how Winter philosophises that the march of progress is “meaner than me”, I don't think I buy it as an authentic point-of-view for him. And some of the writing seems a bit clunky, with some jarring metaphors that took me out of the era:
Lukas narrowed his eyes until they were like windows in a castle through which a defender might safely fire an arrow.
He grinned a terrible grin that had nothing to do with humor or happiness. It was more like a monkey showing its teeth to a rival in a dispute over a coconut.
And there were repetitious phrases that I think could have been better edited:
He could not believe, simply could not believe, that this was happening.
Reggie shook, literally trembled, in his bonds.
Now, I'm only being picky because The Winter Family was recently announced as a title on the 2015 Giller Prize longlist and it's up against some strong literary titles: if this is meant as a serious work of literature, then I'm going to treat it seriously, and to a degree, I found this book to be a bit amateurish in execution but very interesting in intent. The section set in Chicago was my favourite – with the stench of the stockyards and the dirty politics and the financier who is destroyed by the very innovations that he loves – and the character of Augustus Winter was well-drawn and fascinating to me. There is much to like about The Winter Family and it serves as an impressive debut for Clifford Jackman.
June 15, 2015
Clifford Jackman takes no prisoners. This is a wild, violent tale written in the vein of Cormac McCarthy. Not for the faint of heart, Jackman's book will leave you disturbed. In a good way.
May 4, 2015
This book really, really disappointed me. Typically, I adore western noir! The American dream gone wrong! Order out of chaos (or chaos continuing despite attempts to instill order). "The Winter Family" has an interesting set up: a group of men lead by a sociopath (?) are thrown together during Sherman's March to the Sea. Disregarding Sherman's orders to respect civilian property, the group unleashes a reign of terror that even Sherman would flinch at. Sadly, the book just did not deliver on its promise. I found the characters without motivation. I wanted to know a lot more about why Augustus Winter had that cool, calculated ability to see through people and bend them to his will. I wanted to know more about Quentin's past. What made these men do these things? What made them stay together after the war? For me, the episodic structure undercuts the character development because all the interesting things happen "off stage." We see snippets of the gang over the course of decades but we have no idea how they got from riding against the Klan during Reconstruction to Mexico a decade or so later... it just happens.
Finally, Jackman's portrayal of Bill Bread, a native American, employs stereotypes of both the drunk native and the stoic native. I think that Jackman wanted to engage with these stereotypes but, ultimately, without a sense of the character's motivations this engagement lacks critique. All the native characters are, at best, shallow. At worst, the characters are racist portrayals of Native Americans. I almost stopped reading about 100 pages in because I could not handle the depiction of native characters.
Finally, Jackman's portrayal of Bill Bread, a native American, employs stereotypes of both the drunk native and the stoic native. I think that Jackman wanted to engage with these stereotypes but, ultimately, without a sense of the character's motivations this engagement lacks critique. All the native characters are, at best, shallow. At worst, the characters are racist portrayals of Native Americans. I almost stopped reading about 100 pages in because I could not handle the depiction of native characters.
April 17, 2017
Der Klappentext von ‚Winter Family‘ hat mich sofort in seinen Bann gezogen, obwohl die Worte Bürgerkrieg und Söldnertruppe nicht unbedingt in meinen Leseinteressen vorkommen. Trotzdem stellte ich mir sofort einen blutigen Western im Stile von Tarantino oder Red Dead Redemption vor und war Feuer und Flamme. Außerdem gehören viele Bücher aus dem Heyne Hardcore Verlag zu meinen Lieblingen.
Und ‚Winter Family‘ wird dem Hardcore Stempel eindeutig gerecht. Während der insgesamt sehr interessanten Geschichte steht eines im Vordergrund – rohe Gewalt. Hier wird nicht zimperlich miteinander umgegangen und auch kein Blatt vor den Mund genommen. Der Autor schreibt in recht kurzen, einfachen und pragmatischen Sätzen und beschönigt nichts.
Anfangs hatte ich in den recht groß beschriebenen Kriegszenen Probleme die vielen Menschen zuzuordnen. Wer gehörte zu welcher Seite usw. Das hat anfangs zu ein paar Wirrungen geführt, so dass ich mich etwas mehr konzentrieren musste, um am Ball zu bleiben. Viele Personen, die einem im Buch begegnen, verlassen einen schnell wieder. Allerdings bleiben auch die wichtigen Protagonisten recht blass und konnten für mich nur bedingt an Tiefe gewinnen. Sehr interessant fand ich jedoch den Aspekt, dass die Geschichte über eine recht lange Zeitspanne hinweg spielt.
Das Buch ist sicherlich nichts für empfindliche Gemüter, wer aber generell ein Fan von Büchern aus dem Hause Heyne Hardcore ist, das Setting des Bürgerkriegs und stimmungsvolle Landschaften mag, der sollte sich das Buch unbedingt anschauen!
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Und ‚Winter Family‘ wird dem Hardcore Stempel eindeutig gerecht. Während der insgesamt sehr interessanten Geschichte steht eines im Vordergrund – rohe Gewalt. Hier wird nicht zimperlich miteinander umgegangen und auch kein Blatt vor den Mund genommen. Der Autor schreibt in recht kurzen, einfachen und pragmatischen Sätzen und beschönigt nichts.
Anfangs hatte ich in den recht groß beschriebenen Kriegszenen Probleme die vielen Menschen zuzuordnen. Wer gehörte zu welcher Seite usw. Das hat anfangs zu ein paar Wirrungen geführt, so dass ich mich etwas mehr konzentrieren musste, um am Ball zu bleiben. Viele Personen, die einem im Buch begegnen, verlassen einen schnell wieder. Allerdings bleiben auch die wichtigen Protagonisten recht blass und konnten für mich nur bedingt an Tiefe gewinnen. Sehr interessant fand ich jedoch den Aspekt, dass die Geschichte über eine recht lange Zeitspanne hinweg spielt.
Das Buch ist sicherlich nichts für empfindliche Gemüter, wer aber generell ein Fan von Büchern aus dem Hause Heyne Hardcore ist, das Setting des Bürgerkriegs und stimmungsvolle Landschaften mag, der sollte sich das Buch unbedingt anschauen!
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August 10, 2015
a western in the way All the Pretty Horses and Pop. 1280 and Bright's Passage and The Drop Edge of Yonder are westerns, brutal, stinky, deathly, and has some history and motivations within story to make for more depth of plot and lets readers make some sense of the senselessness.
March 20, 2018
I've never really thought about the dirty politics and how the Civil War must have given plenty of opportunities for sociopaths, murders, and outsiders to go completely full out MAD with corruption but after reading this book I know it must have happened a lot. This book is fiction but I think we get a truthful glimpse into unspoken and shameful aspects of mankind. My mind had to process what I read long after I put it down. This would make a memorable movie. It's extremely violent but it's also an excellent interpretation of dirty, dark, American history.
December 5, 2014
A violent Western noir that encompasses depravity running from the Civil War to Chicago elections after the Great Fire. This is the west as imagined by Quentin Tarantino or Patrick Winters, not Alan Ladd or Max Brand. Fans of Woe to Live On or All the Pretty Horses are likely to enjoy this work from Guelph Ontario based Jackman, who has previously published a novella and a book of short stories.
May 22, 2016
I love a dark, bloody western. The Winter Family was gruesome, with memorable characters and over-the-top battle scenes that will be hard to forget.
August 20, 2017
The Winter Family by Clifford Jackman
This book reminds me of Games of Thrones if it was set in a western setting. There's lots of death, and lots of interesting drama to keep you interested.
I'm not crazy into westerns, but I love reading in different genres so I don't get bored reading the same old, same old. So this read was refreshing, even if I'm not the typical "target audience".
The book's setting is around civil war time, which is not a setting I see often of (at least in the books I typically read). For me, this setting worked well within the story. I enjoyed reading all of the descriptions of the locations and people of the time and Clifford Jackman did well within this setting.
While this book is fictional, a lot of the scenarios that happen in the book (brutal, almost R rated scenarios I might add) were situations that happened to people. It was incredible to read, but it rips your heart out knowing some of this did happen to people back in this time. The history was on point despite being fiction. It's not totally Wild West fiction if my review makes you believe that, but it's a "western" style near the Civil War (not men on horses shooting everyone like those old movies).
I definitely want to see Clifford Jackman write more - I thought this book did well within it's genre and was a good read. He was skilled at writing blood and war without a hero or antihero. It was just a novel following someone's life in a dark western-esque era. It didn't knock my socks off and turn me to the western genre, but it was worthy read I'd recommend or suggest my local library pick up for other readers.
On point Clifford! Keep up the good work! I can't wait to see you grow as an author!
Three out of five stars.
I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads.
This book reminds me of Games of Thrones if it was set in a western setting. There's lots of death, and lots of interesting drama to keep you interested.
I'm not crazy into westerns, but I love reading in different genres so I don't get bored reading the same old, same old. So this read was refreshing, even if I'm not the typical "target audience".
The book's setting is around civil war time, which is not a setting I see often of (at least in the books I typically read). For me, this setting worked well within the story. I enjoyed reading all of the descriptions of the locations and people of the time and Clifford Jackman did well within this setting.
While this book is fictional, a lot of the scenarios that happen in the book (brutal, almost R rated scenarios I might add) were situations that happened to people. It was incredible to read, but it rips your heart out knowing some of this did happen to people back in this time. The history was on point despite being fiction. It's not totally Wild West fiction if my review makes you believe that, but it's a "western" style near the Civil War (not men on horses shooting everyone like those old movies).
I definitely want to see Clifford Jackman write more - I thought this book did well within it's genre and was a good read. He was skilled at writing blood and war without a hero or antihero. It was just a novel following someone's life in a dark western-esque era. It didn't knock my socks off and turn me to the western genre, but it was worthy read I'd recommend or suggest my local library pick up for other readers.
On point Clifford! Keep up the good work! I can't wait to see you grow as an author!
Three out of five stars.
I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads.
February 11, 2015
I'll preface my review by saying that I generally don't read Westerns or 19th century historical fiction. This book offered me the chance to try a new genre and for that I am grateful. I believe it was a fun introduction to the era.
The story follows 30 years in the life of a group of outlaws. The group starts with a few union soldiers and picks up various stragglers along the way, including an ex-slave who killed his master. The ex-slave becomes the catalyst for why the group eventually becomes outlaws, as they refuse to turn him over to the military.
From the civil war, to a political battle turned violent, to the Indian badlands, the book takes the readers on a wild journey across America.
While the book was about a group of psychopaths, the violence was handled very well. Some scenes included the gory details, but the majority were simple, clean and to the point. Their violence was about efficient brutality, not as much about revelling in the suffering of the victim. There were notable exceptions.
Some of the characters were fairly well developed, but this is where I had the most trouble with the book. There were so many characters that it took me about half the book before I felt like I was finally able to track who was who. I also didn't get a good feel for the point of view and didn't grow attached to any individual throughout the story. There were too many characters, and most were rather shallow, that I couldn't figure out who I needed to follow. The most strange thing to me was the character Augustus Winter. The book is named after him, but he isn't really the primary character for 3/4ths of the book. For most of the book, I would have placed Quintin Ross as the primary character. This left Winter a curious person to me. I had almost no insight into his motivations and honestly couldn't care one bit about what happened to him or why.
The story follows 30 years in the life of a group of outlaws. The group starts with a few union soldiers and picks up various stragglers along the way, including an ex-slave who killed his master. The ex-slave becomes the catalyst for why the group eventually becomes outlaws, as they refuse to turn him over to the military.
From the civil war, to a political battle turned violent, to the Indian badlands, the book takes the readers on a wild journey across America.
While the book was about a group of psychopaths, the violence was handled very well. Some scenes included the gory details, but the majority were simple, clean and to the point. Their violence was about efficient brutality, not as much about revelling in the suffering of the victim. There were notable exceptions.
Some of the characters were fairly well developed, but this is where I had the most trouble with the book. There were so many characters that it took me about half the book before I felt like I was finally able to track who was who. I also didn't get a good feel for the point of view and didn't grow attached to any individual throughout the story. There were too many characters, and most were rather shallow, that I couldn't figure out who I needed to follow. The most strange thing to me was the character Augustus Winter. The book is named after him, but he isn't really the primary character for 3/4ths of the book. For most of the book, I would have placed Quintin Ross as the primary character. This left Winter a curious person to me. I had almost no insight into his motivations and honestly couldn't care one bit about what happened to him or why.
February 6, 2017
During the Civil War a man named Quentin is put in charge of a group of men. He totally ignores the orders he has been given and takes a core group of the men and leads them where he wants to in order to carry out his own insane and violent needs. Soon the war is over, but not for these men who are now outlaws and murderers. Augustine Winter becomes the leader of the group, the men fear and respect him. He doesn't kill for the thrill like Quentin, but he doesn't hesitate either. He leads the group for 25 years. One day he walks away, after a firefight in a town where he is betrayed by one of the gang. Some of them find a more peaceful existence. Then a civilized white man who is greedy for some more land and a Pinkerton detective set on "justice" manage to reactivate the gang for a final showdown. That is a very brief synopsis, there is a lot that goes on in this book and many things to think about regarding war, criminality, justice, loyalty, greed, friendship, and free will. Violence is on nearly, or maybe all of the pages of this book. It is written in a spare and factual manner, impressive writing, and I wonder if I have swallowed a literary bomb that will later explode emotionally within me.
February 17, 2016
This is the kind of story I enjoy, even with its brutality and gore. Quentin Tarantino better be sidling up to the bar and trying to purchase the movie rights to this one. Started out like a Larry McMurtry, then went a little askew into a E. L. Doctorow, then came back to a Cormac McCarthy. Pretty impressive first novel, though I would still place him perhaps a notch below the three aforementioned literary lights. But that is ok, and I expect to see great things from him. Certainly there is very little redeeming in the collection of sociopaths we end up following, a destructive path of humanity left in their wake, but like their charismatic leader August Winter, you seem to fall under their trance even if you know mayhem is coming. A lot of fine actors will be lining up for roles based on this book.
June 12, 2018
this one had been on my shelf for a long time. I don't know what prompted me to plunk It off the shelf but when I came to Goodreads to look at reviews it left me very torn as to whether to take this one and only book on vacation with me. Most all reviews indicated this was a very violent and brutal book that Quentin Tarantino should love. I really hesitated to bring this book with me but one review that said they found themselves almost rooting for the bad guys told me to take a chance.
everything that is indicating this book is very gory and violent and no holds barred is the truth. I would definitely call this a western and I imagine this is pretty much how it was back then. A cast of very colorful characters and great descriptions I do very much recommend this book unless you're super squeamish. Four stars
everything that is indicating this book is very gory and violent and no holds barred is the truth. I would definitely call this a western and I imagine this is pretty much how it was back then. A cast of very colorful characters and great descriptions I do very much recommend this book unless you're super squeamish. Four stars
April 11, 2015
I received this book in a goodreads giveaway. When I was notified that I won this book I was excited and nervous. It is a subject matter that I don't often read and was worried it would follow a similar pattern to many westerns that I read. All the worrying was for nothing. This book was difficult to put down once I started it. There was always something interesting or exciting happening. I enjoyed getting to see the "family" from the different angles of the members of the family. While reading this book I couldn't help but think about how people are all altered by experiences in different ways and that it is hard to judge someone unless you have been in their shoes. This book really showcases that we learn our morals from those around us and right and wrong is not a universal concept.
February 26, 2015
"There will be blood...on every page" could be the subtitle. I kept waiting for some redemption, but there's little to found in these well-written, well-paced, well-plotted longish book. The characters are tightly drawn and are mostly chilling. It's not good bed-time reading -- hard to get to sleep when Augie Winter and his "family" might be lurking in the dark windy night outside your bedroom window. It's definitely not a feel-good book. More a bone-chillingly frightening one as your brain begins to mull over the idea that there just might still be people like the Winter family loose on this earth. Just hope they're not riding your way.
December 30, 2014
Thank you to NetGalley and Doubleday Books for a free advance download of The Winter Family by Clifford Jackman.
The Winter Family is a Wild West thriller that is filled with war, violence, dirty politics, and lawlessness. Mr. Jackman captures the brutality of life during the Civil War and its aftermath. Augustus Winter is the most evil of bad men. He forms a family of renegades who have no sense of right and wrong. Unbelievably, Winter survives it all: war, fire, injury, and treason within family ranks. I recommend this one to my reader friends who are not squeamish.
The Winter Family is a Wild West thriller that is filled with war, violence, dirty politics, and lawlessness. Mr. Jackman captures the brutality of life during the Civil War and its aftermath. Augustus Winter is the most evil of bad men. He forms a family of renegades who have no sense of right and wrong. Unbelievably, Winter survives it all: war, fire, injury, and treason within family ranks. I recommend this one to my reader friends who are not squeamish.
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November 30, 2015This book had some buzz to it and it's well deserved. It's basically a Quentin Tarantino film. I loved the writing style and the way Jackman described characters. I did have a bit of trouble following because there are SO many characters and this was a busy, crazy week for me and I couldn't concentrate on this book as much as I would have liked.
That said, this is a well-written, post-modern Western and I can think of lots of people who would like it.
That said, this is a well-written, post-modern Western and I can think of lots of people who would like it.
August 13, 2018
I do love a good western. The Winter Family was a good entertaining read but a little confusing at times and was not sure who the main character was. It is the story of civil war veterans who continued their violent ways after the war ended. Much like a bloody version of the James gang. I would actually rate this book at 3 1/2 stars. There is a sequel and I will probably read it.
October 6, 2015
The Winter Family is a very well written novel. The story is quite gruesome and fast paced, the characters are very interesting and even though most characters are sadistic, ruthless and rather insane, I found myself almost rooting for them. The Winter Family is a very original novel.
April 20, 2015
Traversing through the Civil War era South to California at the turn of the century, THE WINTER FAMILY acts as an expose of what we call the American Dream by showing it's bloody and morally ambiguous roots. Augustus Winter and Quentin Ross are amazingly well drawn and terrifying characters.
June 8, 2015
I fucking loved this read.
It was quite over the top.
It was vulgar, rude, crude and one of the funnest sharp books I have read in long time.
I am sure this will make to the re-read list.
It was quite over the top.
It was vulgar, rude, crude and one of the funnest sharp books I have read in long time.
I am sure this will make to the re-read list.
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