Better read this one. ( )

La trama de esta novela es sobradamente conocida: dos colonos blancos se imponen la incierta tarea de rescatar a un par de niñas raptadas por una partida comanche en una de las muchas incursiones que sus guerreros hacían en el territorio de Texas, ya incorporado a los Estados Unidos. Para Amos y Martin, protagonistas de Centauros del Desierto, la búsqueda se convierte en un fin en sí mismo, en algo que monopoliza sus vidas. Persiguen a los comanches casi más allá de toda esperanza lógica, porque, en opinión de Amos, un indio cuando huye "después de un tiempo piensa que debe desistir y comienza a aflojar. Por lo visto, no concibe que exista una criatura que persista en una persecución hasta el final".

two men with very different agendas push their endurance beyond all faith and hope to find a little girl captured by the Comanche.

So ends my yearly Western read.

3 stars-- for initiating a really good discussion on perception brilliantly.* It felt like a lot of older books do though, like [b:Random Harvest|413618|Random Harvest|James Hilton|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1358758527s/413618.jpg|6860]. A good amount of the time nothing really happened. It was a lot of vignettes, strung together to make an experience. I wish it was shorter and easier to teach in schools.

Having grown up loving the film, through no one's fault but my own, I was naturally heart-broken at certain points of the story, and pleased with others. * I think, perhaps, that the film holds up better than the book.** But, again, I make that statement because I saw the film first and I projected it onto the text. But it was hard to escape the stark tension in the film.


*That belt buckle, though!?! And that final chapter!?!
** in everything but the racism. See previous *. ( )

Gritty western about the search for a Comanche captive ( )