03-23-2004, 04:07 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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help with Western (cowboy) books
i love watching western movies and recently i figured id give some western books a try. I have no idea what authors are considered good in the genre or any particular books i should read. I realize their are probably not a lot of people into them, but If anyone on here reads Westerns help me with some recomendations. thanks.
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03-23-2004, 04:36 PM | #2 (permalink) |
Junkie
Location: NJ
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Zane Grey is a famous "Western" author. I inherited the entire collection of his books and the few I've gone through were extremely good. His "Riders of the Purple Sage" was made into a tv movie on one of the cable channels and was really good.
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03-23-2004, 07:03 PM | #4 (permalink) | |
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Location: left side of my couch, East Texas
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He wrote over a hundred books before he passed. There's also an "adult western" series by Tabor Evans that I like. He writes about the adventures and loves of Deputy US Marshall Custis Long, aka- "Longarm". This guy's a badass. Then there's the authors Robert J. Randisi, Ralph W. Cotton, the great Larry McMurtry, the superb Elmore Leonard, and a new one for me, Tobias Cole.
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03-23-2004, 08:58 PM | #6 (permalink) |
Détente
Location: AWOL in Edmonton
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Larry McMurty. wrote an epic series around 'Lonesome Dove'. I recommend it.
I would agree strongly with Louis Lamour. I've made it through a couple Zane Grey novels, and he is the daddy of the western novel, but I don't like his work personally. Some of it could be great, he has lots of titles (As does Lamour), but the few I read I didn't like. Contrived, but not really since I probably think it's contrived because his work planted the western cliches. There was even a long-running tv show called the "Zane Grey Theatre". |
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