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Liked that book. One of the first L'Amours I read where the outlaw was the protagonist.
You know, I might even get a few points in here this year. I have a couple of westerns I got for Xmas.
Bookworm, it's a tricky place for L'Amour, with his vision of the Western man as some sort of noble savage. He had to create an outlaw who didn't really mean to be.
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Love that character. An outlaw with a good heart. Forced, through no fault of his own, to commit a crime. Just trying to make things right.
Hmm. L'Amour time again, maybe. Serious comfort food for the brain.
Rebecca wrote: "Hmm. L'Amour time again, maybe. Serious comfort food for the brain."I love L'Amour too, and the old Zane Grey books. My grandpa loved westerns and he left me a whole stack of old paperbacks, all well-thumbed and well-loved...
Ah, Zane Grey! The only books I know where the male characters spend as much time in introspection as heroines of teen romances!
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I have a L'Amour book on the go too.
I just finished drafting an 11,000-word story (which started out just to be a 1000-word flash) that's a mash-up of the western and a sword-and-sorcery story. Guess I can't get credit for the ones I write myself ;)Now I just have to figure out what to do with the thing.
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Finished:Skull Full of Spurs: A Roundup of Weird Westerns
This was a collection of "weird westerns" which for the most part were horror more than weird, though the last couple in the collection were actually porn, so I guess that's what make it weird...
Rebecca wrote: "Bitter Creek. It's a mystery and not historical, but man, yeah, it's a western."These sound good, I will see if I can find some to read. I also like the Craig Johnson mysteries. I read the first one, The Cold Dish. I watched some of the TV series, too. I like the contemporary westerns.
Oh, yeah, I like Craig Johnson's work. I think I've read the first 3. Need to get some more of those. Peter Bowen is far from politically correct, but I get a kick out of the books.
I think this is #4 for me. The Case of the Good-Looking Corpse. Except that's the wrong title. Can't seem to get it to find it under the title I read (the books seems to have two titles), P.K. Pinkerton and the Petrified Man.
And I've hit my first for this with Ghost of the Chinook: A Western Quintet, which I surprisingly enjoyed :-)
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Though I don't consider this to be a western in the traditional sense, it says right there on the cover "A Western" - 
So, here's my second entry for this category - Redeye.
Finally finished:Against the Law: A Western Duo byRay Hogan
So cheesy... I think I may be getting lactose intolerant.
Melki wrote: "Finished #3 - Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories today."Love this movie, and I had no IDEA it was written by Elmore Leonard! So cool!
Stephanie wrote: "Love this movie, and I had no IDEA it was written by Elmore Leonard! So cool!"I haven't seen the movie, but judging from other reviews, there are some differences.
Squeaking in one final book here - In Calamity's Wake about a daughter's search for her mother -the famed Calamity Jane. This could also work under Historical Fiction, but I think the author did a pretty good job of capturing the feel of the old west, so here I'll put it here.
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In Calamity's Wake (other topics)Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories (other topics)
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