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Louis L'Amour-Any other dedicated readers

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Posted on July 20, 2005 at 20:51:56
draftingmonkey
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Just started re-reading Louis again. Have all his books that I know of. Remembering how I have always enjoyed the stories he wrote enough to read again and again. I especially like to follow his stories on old maps to see where events took place. Having worked in my younger days on a ranch I can relate to some of his characters. Some of my favorites are:

The Lonesome Gods
Bendigo Shafter
The Comstock Load
The Sackett Family series

What are your favorites? Let's get a little sharing of favorite authors and titles going on. Nothing I enjoy more in the evening than reading a good book while listening to jazz and blues. Can't think of a better forum to share this on.

James

 

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Try The Haunted Mesa, posted on September 11, 2005 at 17:01:19
michaelb
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James,
If you have not already read the book, the Haunted Mesa is a good combination of X-Files time/space travel mixed with earthly characters who love the Western life. If was my first LL book, and I still reread it on occasion.

Michael

 

Re: What is your current/pending car project, posted on September 12, 2005 at 15:46:28
draftingmonkey
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Yes I have read it (more than once myself). Great book.

James

 

meant to say yes, good book (nt), posted on October 1, 2005 at 22:26:42
draftingmonkey
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nt

 

I can never see that name without remembering..., posted on April 30, 2006 at 06:29:24
late
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Hi,
About a decade ago we had backpacked into the middle of Baxter State Park. I was
making supper when a guy walked up to the next lean to. He was barefoot,
wearing jeans and had a huge knife on his belt in a fringed holster.
He had no pack of any kind....

I knew it was too late to get back to a car; so I asked him where his pack was. He said "All a man needs is a good knife". Despite being in my 40's I had never read a Louis Lamour novel. He piled up a bunch of leaves in his lean to and said goodnight.

I'm an early riser. I woke up before dawn, at roughly 4:30 am. It had been a cold night, August here is no guarantee against temps in
the low 40's, and it felt cold even in my 4 pound bag (admittedly old and less effective than it once had been)...

When I camped, I always brought gourmet coffee in foil packs, really good stuff. I'd also bring canned milk, so I could have coffee just like I had at home. I brewed up a pot and went over with a cup to give to him, but he was gone. All that was there was a big pile of leaves.

Poor bastard must have froze his ass off and left in the middle of the night. Later someone told me about western novels....

 

Re: Louis L'Amour-Any other dedicated readers, posted on January 6, 2010 at 09:27:19
DevillEars
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My favourite L'Amour books? Hmmm...

Top four in no order, but based on frequency of re-reading:

- Dark Canyon
- Silver Canyon
- Flint
- Reilly's Luck

plus:

- The Sackett novels
- The Last of the Breed (non-Western)

I have most of his novels in paperback, but would like - before retiring - to buy a complete set in leatherbound hardcover to keep and re-read until I shuffle of this mortal coil.

Call me irresponsible...

DevillEars

 

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