![]() It's possible, but I doubt it, and deliberate choice or not it gives the book a strange feel. It's just possible that this is a deliberate choice, since the book is really about its heroine, Jane Withersteen, and from her perspective all these things sort of happen off somewhere else and then she hears about them after the fact. ![]() Strangest of all, though, is that almost all the actijon scenes in the book, particularly the gun fights, take place off stage. I'm not in any way associated with LDS, nor do I have much patience for their theology, but this seems way over the top and, frankly, weird. Very much like the way the "Da Vinci Code" depicts the Catholic Church. It's the same sort of depiction as in the long middle section of "Study in Scarlet" (which is often left out or skipped) - Mormons are secretive, conniving, dastardly, unprincipled, &c. Much more odd and off-putting was the fact that the villain (or "antagonist") is kind of Mormonism as a whole, which is depicted as a kind of home-grown fascism in the bud. A lot more romance than I was expecting, which isn't a bad thing particularly, just unexpected. ![]() A strange book, but maybe I'm just showing my ignorance of westerns. ![]()
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