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Giddy-Up and Read - Chapter 8 book list
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last updated May 25, 2008 07:11PM
True Grit- book club selection- *may contain spoilers*
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By MJ , Idiot's Top libriarian · 20 posts · 88 views
last updated Dec 09, 2010 02:18PM
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A very easy read which made good reading during a hurricane, True Grit has lots of things to like about it. Mattie Ross surprises the reader with her quick tongue, deep education, and an almost obsessive attachment to the duty of finding her father's killer. She is the perfect soldier. But the character of Rooster Cogburn also brings his own complexities, as he inherits brutality from arguably the blood thirstiest man in the Civil War but refuses to give up on Mattie, rising to the occasion un ...more
The first line grabbed me, and is a fair summation of the voice and plot:
People do not give credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day.
So begins the account of Mattie Ross, a "cranky old maid" of fifty-five when she tells of how as a young girl she rode with US Marshall Rooster Cogburn and Texas Ranger LaBoeuf in 1878 Oklahoma. A good first ...more
People do not give credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day.
So begins the account of Mattie Ross, a "cranky old maid" of fifty-five when she tells of how as a young girl she rode with US Marshall Rooster Cogburn and Texas Ranger LaBoeuf in 1878 Oklahoma. A good first ...more
I really enjoyed this story. In particular I loved the language used: the lack of contractions, the forceful, almost pedantic way that Mattie speaks, and all the little tiny details in each character's dialogue that made them seem to come alive.
An excellent book that I will definitely read again. ...more
An excellent book that I will definitely read again. ...more
Dec 30, 2010
Paula
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I can't wait to read this! Thanks to the new version at the movies I read a review in Entertainment Weekly. I never realized there was a book! This should be a good time!
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