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Go with Me (2008)

de Castle Freeman

Altres autors: Pinckney Benedict (Introducció)

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Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ANTHONY HOPKINS
 
Set in the unforgiving Vermont wilderness, this is a ??gripping, taut tale of suspense . . . that sparkles with sly insight and cuts like a knife???for fans of Cormac McCarthy (The Boston Globe)
 
The Vermont hill country is the stark, vivid setting for this gripping and entertaining story of bold determination. The local villain, Blackway, is making life hellish for Lillian, a young woman from parts elsewhere. Her boyfriend has fled the state in fear, and local law enforcement can do nothing to protect her. She resolves, however, to stand her ground, and to fight back. A pair of unlikely allies??Lester, a crafty old-timer, and Nate, a powerful but naive youth??join her cause, understanding that there is no point in taking up the challenge unless you??re willing to ??go through.?
 
In this modern-day drama, a kind of Greek chorus??wry, witty, digressive; obsessively, amusingly reminiscent; skeptical, opinionated, and not always entirely sober??enriches the telling of this unforgettable tale as the reader follows the threesome??s progress on their dangero
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This was a fun, well-written tale about a woman looking for help to deal with the town bully/kingpin who's stalking her. The town sheriff is no help, but points her to the local rowdy boys. She hooks up with one of the old boys there, and a young tough, who agree to solve her problem. The rest of their day is mostly taken up on a Homeresque journey trying to locate the bad guy in one of his gritty haunts. The writing is punchy and colored with a strong feel for small town Northeast.

3 bones!!! ( )
  blackdogbooks | May 7, 2023 |
I absolutely loved Freeman's book of linked stories, Round Mountain, which I read a few years ago. I immediately acquired Go with Me but for some unfathomable reason I left it languishing on shelf. I finally read it and it did not disappoint. This is a cool mix of Cormac McCarthy and Daniel Woodrell, with dialogue worthy of Elmore Leonard at his best. Lean, mean and starkly funny at times. At 170 pages, it will be over before you know it and you will be aching for more. ( )
  msf59 | Apr 16, 2023 |
A short and engaging thriller. Castle Freeman Jr.’s excellent writing ability helps elevate a story that lacks compelling characters. ( )
  Lucre | Mar 10, 2022 |
This one gets a firm 2.5 out of 5. Described as "lean and muscular", I found a surprising amount of unnecessary fat between its slim 160 pages. There are pages and pages of dialogue with Whizzer and DB and Coop that just circle endlessly, go nowhere, and add nothing to the story. I'd guess at least 4-5 full chapters, or about a quarter of the book.

Aside from that, the dialogue, while somewhat realistic, does tend to drone, in its choppy, staccato fashion, and I found toward the end that it became grating.

Finally, I have a hard time buying into two men willingly taking on the area badass simply because they're asked to, with no real motivation beyond that.

That being said, there were also some good points: the basic story overall, Nate the Great and Lester Speed, some of the interactions.

But all in all, it fell distinctly in the middle of the pack for me. ( )
  TobinElliott | Sep 3, 2021 |
Recently I came across [All That I Have] and loved it, so I scurried to find another of [[Castle Freeman]]'s novels. Then I waited, afraid I wouldn't love it as much as the first.
But this one is even better. I am in awe, actually. Everything about the novel is so right, all the ingredients I love, including strangers riding around in a car together all day: the structure, the characters, the theme, the dialogue, the SETTING! Are all rural places the same? Well, they share commonalities, for sure, but Freeman knows Vermont. Really knows. There's a reason this state is still underpopulated, besides it being winter 7 months of the year, it is beautiful, but great swathes are not suitable for anything but admiring from afar. Even logging in those forests is treacherous and hard. That came across in [All That I Have] too. There is nothing cute and cuddly about this version of Vermont either. There is beauty, there is community, there is humor aplenty and there is danger and suspense. All in 155 pages. A young woman comes to the sheriff (retired in [All That I Have] wanting him to do something about a man who is stalking her, Blackway. Well, Blackway is the local villain, disliked and feared, but . . . well . . . Blackway, so you leave him alone, stay out of his way. The sheriff tells her to go look for this fella, Scotty Cavanaugh at the old chair factory. She does that and finds two knights, one old and one young, in tarnished, no, in NO armor but cunning and muscle to help her. They will find Blackway and they will take care of him. At the chair factory a greek chorus of older men spend the day chatting, playing cards, musing, and . . . there are delicious hints of divine (or semi-divine) intervention. And even some romantical nudging of two young people who just might suit.

Describing a man at one of those off in the middle of nowhere country bars that is only for drinking and fighting: "He was a big one, all right: six and a half feet and in no way skinny, with a long tangled beard that hung from his chin to his chest. The beard was black at the sides and gray down the middle and made the man look like he was in the act of eating a skunk headfirst."

Humor: "[The Fort] was not the kind of bar where you stopped for a drink on your way home from work. It was the kind of bar where you stopped for many drinks on your way to work, until soon enough they fired you and you could spend your whole day at the Fort."

A total joy. ***** ( )
  sibylline | Jun 21, 2020 |
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"Marvel have I," said the damsel, "what manner of man ye be, for it may never be other but that ye be come of gentle blood, for so foully and shamefully did never woman revile a knight as I have done you, and ever courteously ye have suffered me, and that comes never but of gentle blood."
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Cooking right along, with the top down and the breeze whistling past his hairy, slightly pointed ears, on a fresh new mission, feeling fit and frisky in the warm early-spring afternoon, Dangerfield, the account man, the closer, motored into the valley at the wheel of his beloved MGA, a classic like its driver.
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Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ANTHONY HOPKINS
 
Set in the unforgiving Vermont wilderness, this is a ??gripping, taut tale of suspense . . . that sparkles with sly insight and cuts like a knife???for fans of Cormac McCarthy (The Boston Globe)
 
The Vermont hill country is the stark, vivid setting for this gripping and entertaining story of bold determination. The local villain, Blackway, is making life hellish for Lillian, a young woman from parts elsewhere. Her boyfriend has fled the state in fear, and local law enforcement can do nothing to protect her. She resolves, however, to stand her ground, and to fight back. A pair of unlikely allies??Lester, a crafty old-timer, and Nate, a powerful but naive youth??join her cause, understanding that there is no point in taking up the challenge unless you??re willing to ??go through.?
 
In this modern-day drama, a kind of Greek chorus??wry, witty, digressive; obsessively, amusingly reminiscent; skeptical, opinionated, and not always entirely sober??enriches the telling of this unforgettable tale as the reader follows the threesome??s progress on their dangero

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