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Audiobook8 hours
Reilly's Luck
Written by Louis L'Amour
Narrated by Beau Bridges
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Val Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly-a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years they each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the cities of Europe-until the day Reilly's luck ran out in a roar of gunfire.
But it wasn't a gambling brawl or a pack of thieves that sealed Will's fate. It was a far more complex story that Val would soon uncover, one that touched upon Val's nearly forgotten childhood, the woman who was Will Reilly's lost love, and the violent future of a growing country.
From the Paperback edition.
But it wasn't a gambling brawl or a pack of thieves that sealed Will's fate. It was a far more complex story that Val would soon uncover, one that touched upon Val's nearly forgotten childhood, the woman who was Will Reilly's lost love, and the violent future of a growing country.
From the Paperback edition.
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Reviews for Reilly's Luck
Rating: 4.4299063551401865 out of 5 stars
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107 ratings4 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A good cowboy story. An orphan is left to die by his mother and is taken in by a gambler. Worthwhile reading.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5another excellent story by a favorite; easy a; fun and fast read
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I had fond memories of this novel & should have kept them. Beau Bridges read the book. His gravelly voice was OK for some parts, but the women's voices were horrible & a couple of women had very important parts in the novel. Still, he was OK for the adult male parts & was acceptable for the boy's.
Unfortunately, the plot was full of convenience. OK, the end needed to be a convenient great meeting, but there were far too many others scattered throughout the story which skipped through time like a thrown stone. It could have used fleshing out in more than a few places. Instead, we're just told that "it was so" & usually that was the achievement of some skill that took a lot of practice, but there never seemed to be the time for it. Perfect heroes give me a pain, too.
For all the spare writing & speed of the story line, L'Amour managed to repeat himself endlessly on the attributes & motivations of the characters as if the repetition would make them more believable. Didn't work.
Overall, the story is a good one, but the execution just failed in this format & time. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Val has had an unusual upbringing. Abandoned by his mother, who found him inconvenient, he is raised by a gentlemanly gambler. Now he is grown, his benefactor is dead by treachery, and Val must decide the path his life will follow.