The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion

The basic idea was OK, but everything was far too long starting with the first chapter which describes the setting of the novel. It's not the real wild west, but the one we hold in our heads due to all the penny-dreadfuls, John Wayne movies, & such. There, I described it in a sentence. He took an en......more

The concept of this book is pretty fun... a group of actor/thieves that cover their robberies with their performances, but it doesn't really make sense. It shouldn't take too long to connect things. And it didn't.. alot of the book is about an extremely generic train robbing outfit that our main cha......more