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Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden paperback book
207 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1922
About the author
Max Brand
1,919 books140 followersFrederick Schiller Faust (see also Frederick Faust), aka Frank Austin, George Owen Baxter, Walter C. Butler, George Challis, Evin Evan, Evan Evans, Frederick Faust, John Frederick, Frederick Frost, David Manning, Peter Henry Morland, Lee Bolt, Peter Dawson, Martin Dexter, Dennis Lawson, M.B., Hugh Owen, Nicholas Silver
Max Brand, one of America's most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as Destry Rides Again and the Doctor Kildare stories, died on the Italian front in 1944.
Max Brand, one of America's most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as Destry Rides Again and the Doctor Kildare stories, died on the Italian front in 1944.
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May 14, 2014
Interesting book...thought I knew half a dozen times how it would end but I was always wrong.
March 7, 2021
Interesting Listening 🎧
Due to eye issues Alexa reads to me. A very different kind of Western, that is very will written and entertaining. I would recommend to readers of westerns. Enjoy reading 2021 🎉✨
Due to eye issues Alexa reads to me. A very different kind of Western, that is very will written and entertaining. I would recommend to readers of westerns. Enjoy reading 2021 🎉✨
February 19, 2018
Curious update of the Adam and Eve story.
More accurately, Gates of Eden is a Western mishmash of various incidents from the Bible as a gambler called Ben Connor infiltrates a small, isolated religious cult in order to get his hands on their purebred Eden Gray horses.
The cult consists of a handful of aged slaves and a vigorous Indian laster named David Eden, who communes God in the House of Silence and has never come into contact with the outside world.
Connor enlists the aid of Ruth Manning, who operates a telegraph machine ("lightning jerking") in the nearest town. The gambler carries the sign of Haneemar, the cult's monkey devil, and brings Eve into the Garden of Eden.
Like I said, this is a curious little book. The set-up could have led to something profound in a better, more focused writer's hands. The pulpy dialogue sat uncomfortably with the faux-Biblical posturings of the cult.
So while the opportunity to write something mythic was lost, the opportunity to write something intriguing wasn't.
More accurately, Gates of Eden is a Western mishmash of various incidents from the Bible as a gambler called Ben Connor infiltrates a small, isolated religious cult in order to get his hands on their purebred Eden Gray horses.
The cult consists of a handful of aged slaves and a vigorous Indian laster named David Eden, who communes God in the House of Silence and has never come into contact with the outside world.
Connor enlists the aid of Ruth Manning, who operates a telegraph machine ("lightning jerking") in the nearest town. The gambler carries the sign of Haneemar, the cult's monkey devil, and brings Eve into the Garden of Eden.
Like I said, this is a curious little book. The set-up could have led to something profound in a better, more focused writer's hands. The pulpy dialogue sat uncomfortably with the faux-Biblical posturings of the cult.
So while the opportunity to write something mythic was lost, the opportunity to write something intriguing wasn't.
June 4, 2016
WESTERN
Jim read this on 6-15-16 and rated it 4.7 stars.
Jim read this on 6-15-16 and rated it 4.7 stars.
August 30, 2020
A bit of an odd western by Max Brand, mainly focused on one of the antagonists.
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