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Review title: Bland Stories of the West!
Product review: Being unfamiliar with author Earl Murray's work, I purchased this book based on the publisher's blurb and the book's intriguing sub-title. I should have done more checking and saved my money.This books consists of 10 stories set in the old West and more modern times. The stories don't run chronologically which I found somewhat jarring. The problem is the switch from a story about an Indian attack on a wagon train to one on neo-nazi punks planning a Columbine-style bloodbath to one on an old West poker game with a mysterious stranger sitting in, etc.The book's main failing however is the stories themselves. Overall they are pretty bland and uninvolving. The characters are superficial, the action plodding and several stories just kind of trail off without a satisfactory denouement. And I still am trying to fathom why these are "secret stories of the West!?!"Pass on this one, folks.
