Epic in scope and grand beyond our imaginings. The Scout continues the magnificent story that began the highly acclaimed novel Brules .In his stunning new novel, Harry Combs recreates a time when the West was the white man's greatest challenge and the red man's last battleground... a towering tale of dreams unfettered, of mustangs running free, and of young men riding hell-bent-for-leather into Indian country for no other reason than they were young, brave and wild.
By 1900 the Old West was vanishing, but the man many called its fastest gun was still alive.By then Car Brules had shut himself and his secrets away in a cabin on Colorado's Lone Cone Peak.Only one person knew his real story, a boy of eleven who became his friend and heard his extraordinary tales in 1909.The Scout is that unforgettable story, just as young Steven Cartwright heard it, just as Brules told it: hard and gritty, wry with a cowboy's humor, and true to the spirits of all those who loved the west--and died for it--from Custer to Crazy Horse.
Many hard, hurting things had driven Cat Brules to become the man he was.The death of his beloved Shoshone bride, Wild Rose, was one of them.Months after Brules lost her--brutally and far too soon--Wild Rose still came to him in his dreams.With a void in his heart and a reckless spirit, Brules signed on as a Scout for General George Crook, whose cavalry was headed into the Badlands. Then, the U.S. Army still didn't know that there were fifteen thousand Sioux and Cheyenne in those Wyoming foothills, and under chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, every one of them was willing to fight to the death to live free.
Brules's account of the violence that ensued, told with eyewitness immediacy and chilling authenticity, is one of courage and shame as he rides the trail toward the Little Big Horn and the battles that followed.Seeing for himself the dying of a way of life, Brules tells a searing truth about America's history: the betrayal of Custer to the Sioux, the hunting of Geronimo, and the U.S. Army's cruel pursuit of Chief Joseph and his Nez Perce.And here too are the women who loved Brules: White Antelope, the gentle Indian maiden who wanted what Brules felt he could never give again--and Melisande, the saucy Mormon girl who might be too much for even Cat Brules to handle.
Debunking the myths of the Old West and the romanticism of movies, renowned Western writer Harry Combs creates a vision at once more complex, magnificent and genuine--from the make of the rifle to the caliber of the bullet that cut Custer down.A novel unmatched in excitement and adventure, The Scout lets you smell the cordite, feel a man's hard need for a woman, and discover that the real flesh and blood inhabitants of those legendary days were tougher, bolder and more fascinating than we ever dared to imagine.
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如果用一个词来形容我的阅读体验,那便是“颠覆”。我原本以为这会是一部标准的探险故事,充斥着高强度的动作场面和一帆风顺的英雄主义,但事实完全超出了我的预设。叙事结构相当精巧,如同多线程的编织,看似分散的线索,最终却在一个意想不到的节点上汇聚,产生了巨大的情感冲击力。特别是作者对“道德灰色地带”的探讨,让人不得不停下来反思自己对于正义与生存的定义。书中的某些哲思片段,措辞精准而富有力量,让我反复阅读,甚至在笔记本上做了批注。我甚至觉得,这本书与其说是在讲一个故事,不如说是在进行一场深入骨髓的人性拷问。文字的密度很高,信息量巨大,读起来毫不轻松,但正是这种挑战性,让最终的顿悟时刻显得尤为珍贵和震撼。
评分这本小说简直像一幅精心绘制的复古油画,色彩浓郁,笔触细腻。故事的节奏把握得极好,起初像是微风拂过湖面,平静之下暗藏着难以言喻的张力。作者对于环境的描摹,那种潮湿的、带着泥土和腐叶气息的森林感,几乎能让我身临其境,甚至能嗅到松针和雨水的味道。主角的内心挣扎被刻画得入木三分,每一次犹豫和抉择都牵动着读者的心弦。我尤其欣赏作者在处理人物关系时的那种微妙性,没有直白的冲突,更多的是眼神和沉默中流淌的复杂情感。这种内敛的叙事方式,需要读者投入极大的专注力去体会那些未言明的潜台词,读完之后,那种意犹未尽的回味感,就像是品尝了一口需要细细咀嚼的陈年佳酿,层次丰富,回味悠长。它不是那种一目了然的爽文,更像是一场需要耐心探索的智力游戏,每解开一个谜团,都伴随着更深一层的感慨。
评分坦白讲,我很少对一部作品产生如此强烈的“共情缺失”和“疏离感”,但这恰恰是本书最引人入胜的地方。作者似乎故意在主角和读者之间设置了一道无形的屏障,让你只能远远地观察,无法真正触及他们的核心。这种距离感营造出一种独特的悬疑氛围——你不知道角色的下一步行动是出于理性还是被某种古老的宿命所驱动。书中的世界构建极其完整,其内部逻辑自洽到令人发指,每一个细节,从某个部落的祭祀仪式到某种罕见的植物的特性,都经过了严密的考量。这种庞大的体系感,让故事的展开显得庄重而缓慢,如同观看一场古代的史诗,充满了不可抗拒的宿命感。读完后,我感觉自己像是刚从一个庞大而复杂的迷宫中走出来,带着一丝疲惫,但更多的是对构建者智慧的敬畏。
评分这本书的语言风格充满了古典的韵味,仿佛是出自一位受过严格训练的古典文学大家之手。句式复杂多变,长短句的交错运用,形成了一种独特的音乐节奏感。我注意到作者在描述一些抽象概念时,会大胆地使用一些我从未在现代小说中见过的修辞手法,这使得文本具有一种历久弥新的质感。与现在流行的简洁明快的风格截然不同,阅读它需要一种近乎于“朝圣”的心态,去细细品味每一个动词和形容词的选择。虽然初读时可能会感到有些晦涩,但一旦适应了这种节奏,就会发现其中蕴含的巨大能量。它更像是一部文学作品而非纯粹的商业小说,适合那些渴望在文字本身的美学价值上有所追求的读者。
评分从纯粹的娱乐角度来看,这本书或许不适合那些寻求快速刺激的读者。它的魅力在于“铺陈”,在于那种如同缓慢抬升的潮水般逐渐将人淹没的感觉。作者对于时间概念的处理非常独特,有时一页纸只描述了短短几分钟的对话,但却浓缩了数年的心路历程。相反,有时故事却会像被按下了快进键,数月的光阴在几个精炼的段落中一闪而过。这种对时间刻度的自由掌控,让阅读体验充满了不确定性。我最欣赏的一点是,作者敢于将故事的结局处理得如此开放,没有提供一个明确的“答案”或“救赎”,而是将最终的解释权交还给了读者。这迫使我们必须自己去构建那个缺失的拼图,让这本书在合上书页后,依然能在脑海中持续发酵和生长。
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