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The Gunsmith #1
Macklin's Women
Gunsmith Clint Adams encounters a trio of beautiful women in a sleepy Missouri town, and is hired to take them on the dirty and dangerous trail to Mexico, facing an army of desperadoes led by Macklin, who wants his women back and the Gunsmith dead
- GenresWesterns
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published December 15, 1988
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J.R. Roberts
575 books42 followers"J.R. Roberts" is the pen name of Robert J. Randisi under which he writes the Gunsmith series.
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August 7, 2019
Most Entertaining Western Writing Ever!
This is the most exciting and totally raw western writing ever. If a bunch of raw action, hot sexual energy, and good old fashioned political incorrectness is too much for your sensitive little self then you'd better choose something more docile for your reading pleasure. This series is definitely for men who are still men and haven't been neutered by society's modern wimpy ways.
This is the most exciting and totally raw western writing ever. If a bunch of raw action, hot sexual energy, and good old fashioned political incorrectness is too much for your sensitive little self then you'd better choose something more docile for your reading pleasure. This series is definitely for men who are still men and haven't been neutered by society's modern wimpy ways.
September 6, 2017
THREE WOMEN FOR MEXICO
Clint Adams, Clint baby..This man is a hot mess.
I don't think any of us will get enough of Clint and neither will any of the women he beds.
He's a smart man, who isn't afraid of facing any man in a gun fight or fist fight, he can hold his own.
This story of about three women one of the women father is Con MacKlin's daughter. Men in those days dropped their seeds all over the west,
Mexico wherever they laid their heads and whether the women wanted to or not babies were born. There isn't any real respect or appreciation for females in America. Life challenges were owners of bawdy houses, rooming houses and possibly a dress shop. Limited outlooks..but The GUNSMITH does his thing and moves on...WANDERLUST
Clint Adams, Clint baby..This man is a hot mess.
I don't think any of us will get enough of Clint and neither will any of the women he beds.
He's a smart man, who isn't afraid of facing any man in a gun fight or fist fight, he can hold his own.
This story of about three women one of the women father is Con MacKlin's daughter. Men in those days dropped their seeds all over the west,
Mexico wherever they laid their heads and whether the women wanted to or not babies were born. There isn't any real respect or appreciation for females in America. Life challenges were owners of bawdy houses, rooming houses and possibly a dress shop. Limited outlooks..but The GUNSMITH does his thing and moves on...WANDERLUST
September 19, 2024
3.5 stars
A few notes on this one:
There was a lot of filler here. Roberts (real name Bob Randisi) really had to put a lot of effort into filling all ~200 pages and it shows.
There was so much sex that it made the Longarm adult Western series feel like prudish YA novels. I don't have a problem with our fearless hero getting busy but I usually find the sex scenes in these kinds of trashy pulp Westerns to be the most boring part (I'm here for the blood and guts) but here it was especially bad because all of the seemingly endless sex scenes felt copy/pasted from each other. Apparently the Gunsmith has very few moves in bed.
I could have used a bit more elaboration here and there. We get a lot of "he killed him" and "he shot him". With the VERY detailed sex scenes you would think we would get more than a "he killed him" during an intense gunfight.
Despite all of these criticisms, I still had a lot of fun with this. It delivered on the promise of fun, trashy action and adventure and despite all of the filler it was rarely boring.
A few notes on this one:
There was a lot of filler here. Roberts (real name Bob Randisi) really had to put a lot of effort into filling all ~200 pages and it shows.
There was so much sex that it made the Longarm adult Western series feel like prudish YA novels. I don't have a problem with our fearless hero getting busy but I usually find the sex scenes in these kinds of trashy pulp Westerns to be the most boring part (I'm here for the blood and guts) but here it was especially bad because all of the seemingly endless sex scenes felt copy/pasted from each other. Apparently the Gunsmith has very few moves in bed.
I could have used a bit more elaboration here and there. We get a lot of "he killed him" and "he shot him". With the VERY detailed sex scenes you would think we would get more than a "he killed him" during an intense gunfight.
Despite all of these criticisms, I still had a lot of fun with this. It delivered on the promise of fun, trashy action and adventure and despite all of the filler it was rarely boring.
February 1, 2023
The sex scenes were entertaining, just not in the way the author probably intended.
July 3, 2023
My 5 star rating is entirely indicative of my enjoyment of this trashy western and not because I think it deserved the Spur award in 1982. Mr. Roberts (aka Robert Randisi) did a great job introducing a cool character - a retired lawman, and longtime friend of Wild Bill Hickok, that travels around with a wanderlust and makes money repairing guns as a gunsmith. The adventure in this story was pretty exciting and involved some great saloon poker & gunplay scenes while traveling across the country between Missouri and Mexico and fighting off Apaches along the way. My only minor gripe was that the sex scenes were a little too numerous and the novel would have been better with only about a quarter of them, in my opinion. I'm hoping the series dials the sex back some later on (which continues to this day) and the amount in this first installment was the same strategy to hook viewers by front loading the steamy sex scenes in early episodes of streaming series on Netflix, Prime, etc. Regardless, it was highly enjoyable and never even remotely boring which is why I give it 5 starts and look forward to reading more of these.
September 18, 2022
This is such an odd little book, and what's incredible is the series has OVER 450 ENTRIES (and counting!), and I've never heard of it!
A rollicking, fast-paced Western tale, but peppered with a RIDICULOUS amount of sex (which I don't mind, though I wish the characters were a bit more developed).
I think what I enjoyed most is that the plot was already wearing a little thin for such a short book, so at around the 70% mark, the original plot gets resolved, and a new setup is introduced.
What I enjoyed the least, probably, was the weird and unnecessary cameos. Not sure why Westerns seem to love inserting real people into the story. Oh well.
I'll almost certainly be reading more of this series.
A rollicking, fast-paced Western tale, but peppered with a RIDICULOUS amount of sex (which I don't mind, though I wish the characters were a bit more developed).
I think what I enjoyed most is that the plot was already wearing a little thin for such a short book, so at around the 70% mark, the original plot gets resolved, and a new setup is introduced.
What I enjoyed the least, probably, was the weird and unnecessary cameos. Not sure why Westerns seem to love inserting real people into the story. Oh well.
I'll almost certainly be reading more of this series.
July 24, 2023
Good characters, good storyline, and a likable hero
When i read this story it had been a long time since reading a western. I was not disappointed. Everything you want is here, fast gunslingers, famous gunmen, beautiful women, great horses. The only thing i noticed was missing was a better description of the surroundings, i'm used tozane grey and louis lamour. Overall a good story and a fast read, i didn't want to quit reading. To me, thats a good book.
When i read this story it had been a long time since reading a western. I was not disappointed. Everything you want is here, fast gunslingers, famous gunmen, beautiful women, great horses. The only thing i noticed was missing was a better description of the surroundings, i'm used tozane grey and louis lamour. Overall a good story and a fast read, i didn't want to quit reading. To me, thats a good book.
December 20, 2020
Standard cowboy fare - main character Clint Adams - I'm sure I've read another western by an author named Clint Adams!
This is the first in a really long series - will I continue it - I am guessing it is going to be difficult to find them but we will see!
This is the first in a really long series - will I continue it - I am guessing it is going to be difficult to find them but we will see!
January 10, 2019
good book
October 10, 2022
While reading this, I kept wondering, who is this for? Because it's such a weird mix of genres, but APPARENTLY the answer is 'a lot of people' because this friggin series has been going now for close to 500 titles in the main series alone ...
Ostensibly a very quick Western with a straightforward (& enjoyable!) plot, this book also follows porn logic, where everyone wants to fuck the main character. I wouldn't say he's a Mary Sue, he's just ... a safe haven for vagina. He's a vagina whisperer. In this like ... 200-page book, he has sex with four different women, some more than once. That is a LOT of sex scenes for such a small book, YET somehow there is room for a decent plot (the wife & two children of an ousted town tyrant want to be escorted to Mexico & he, a wanderer, is chosen for the task) that even has a fun twist about 2/3 in, AND something that a decent amount of Westerns I've read seem to revel in: cameos from real-life Wild West "celebrities." Let's just say that if you've watched Tombstone &/or Young Guns, you'll go 'ah' a couple of times in this. I don't quite get that, but I guess that's just the way it was?
Oh, and you might wonder how the sex is. I mean ... I don't know. It's a bit vanilla and repetitive for my tastes (though I was a bit shocked that he has sex with an underage character ... but I guess it's not like they're in "states" with "statutory rape laws" or anything ... still ...), but it's eminently readable.
Anyway, I wish these were cheaper or more available through the library b/c I'd like to read more, but holy crap are they tough to get a hold of.
Ostensibly a very quick Western with a straightforward (& enjoyable!) plot, this book also follows porn logic, where everyone wants to fuck the main character. I wouldn't say he's a Mary Sue, he's just ... a safe haven for vagina. He's a vagina whisperer. In this like ... 200-page book, he has sex with four different women, some more than once. That is a LOT of sex scenes for such a small book, YET somehow there is room for a decent plot (the wife & two children of an ousted town tyrant want to be escorted to Mexico & he, a wanderer, is chosen for the task) that even has a fun twist about 2/3 in, AND something that a decent amount of Westerns I've read seem to revel in: cameos from real-life Wild West "celebrities." Let's just say that if you've watched Tombstone &/or Young Guns, you'll go 'ah' a couple of times in this. I don't quite get that, but I guess that's just the way it was?
Oh, and you might wonder how the sex is. I mean ... I don't know. It's a bit vanilla and repetitive for my tastes (though I was a bit shocked that he has sex with an underage character ... but I guess it's not like they're in "states" with "statutory rape laws" or anything ... still ...), but it's eminently readable.
Anyway, I wish these were cheaper or more available through the library b/c I'd like to read more, but holy crap are they tough to get a hold of.
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