Open Range
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Open Range
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Narrateur(s):
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Barrett Whitener
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Auteur(s):
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Lauran Paine
À propos de cet audio
The open range men are free-grazing cattlemen, those who don't own land but drive their stock through the country to graze. Boss Spearman knows that times are changing. Local ranchers are staking claims to grazing areas and building up extensive cattle empires. Boss has no quarrel with that, but he won't be intimidated or scared off. So when Denton Baxter makes it clear, by killing one man and seriously wounding another, that he intends to drive Boss and his crew out, Boss must make a stand. But getting justice is not going to be easy. Baxter practically owns Marshall Poole, and the townsfolk have no use for free grazers. Boss' only hope is the circuit-riding judge, if he can stay alive until he arrives.
©1990 Lauran Paine (P)2003 Blackstone AudiobooksCe que les critiques en disent
"[Lauran Paine is] the best in the business." (Kirkus Reviews)
"A gripping tale of human greed and the fight for survival...superbly narrated by Barrett Whitener." (Library Bookwatch)
Ce que les auditeurs disent de Open Range
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Au global3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Histoire3 out of 5 stars
- Langer MD
- 2022-05-17
Sufficiently Entertaining Tale
The pacing in this Lauran Paine novel is genuinely plodding. Even the action sequences are written with little tempo. This is an excellent "background" audiobook that you can listen to while doing some gardening or something - but don't expect your pulse rate to go up.
Paine is famous (infamous?) for writing 5-6 novels per year, and this mid-90s effort demonstrates the almost obligatory deficiencies that come with that level of productivity. The plot is a straightforward "ethical good guys vs greedy, scheming bad guys" story (you can almost picture the White & Black hats), the characters are two-dimensional, and the resolution is strikingly predictable.
Fortunately, Paine's descriptions are excellent, his setting is cinematic, and he delivers pretty much exactly what you expect to get if you're hunting for a stereotypical "Western".
The end result is a solidly "adequate" Old-West adventure about cowboy/cattlemen fighting over grazing land.
Barrett Whitener reads with commendable voice-acting (eschewing foolish accents) and creditable diction & timbre, but matches the slow pace of the plot with a much-too-slow reading rate (set playback at 1.20X). Compounding the errors, Whitener also exhibits a mechanical cadence and a somewhat robotic monotone.. the "passable" narration (at best) punctuates the more boring aspects of the narrative.
Average Writing + Average Presentation = Average Audiobook. 'Open Range' rates 5 stars out of 10.
If you can get it as a 'Plus' option (free with your subscription), you're not crazy to give it a try - it was short enough to be a pleasant afternoon diversion for an afficianado of the genre - but save your Credit for something else if they ask for it.
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