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A review by kessler21
True Grit by Charles Portis
3.0
I think this is a three star read only due to the narrator. Donna Tartt is not my favorite narrator and she might have stolen a star.
You may be familiar with the movie staring John Wayne and Glen Campbell or the Coen brothers remake with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. Though the story is very similar, they are different than the book.
Mattie Ross discovers her father has been murdered by one of the farm hands. She hires a Marshall, Rooster Cogburn to hunt this man into Indian territory and serve justice. Mattie Ross is only 14, but she has negotiation skills of a seasoned lawyer. She insists on accompanying Rooster on his hunt for the man who killed her father.
In the book, I like Rooster less than in the movies, but I liked Mattie more.
Edit: I wanted to add that I enjoyed the references to the time period the book takes place. The crisis of 1893, Jessie James, Frank James, and Cole Younger, Grover Cleveland and more.
You may be familiar with the movie staring John Wayne and Glen Campbell or the Coen brothers remake with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. Though the story is very similar, they are different than the book.
Mattie Ross discovers her father has been murdered by one of the farm hands. She hires a Marshall, Rooster Cogburn to hunt this man into Indian territory and serve justice. Mattie Ross is only 14, but she has negotiation skills of a seasoned lawyer. She insists on accompanying Rooster on his hunt for the man who killed her father.
In the book, I like Rooster less than in the movies, but I liked Mattie more.
Edit: I wanted to add that I enjoyed the references to the time period the book takes place. The crisis of 1893, Jessie James, Frank James, and Cole Younger, Grover Cleveland and more.