In peerless fiction spanning five decades and as many continents, Louis L’Amour has proven himself the preeminent storyteller of the American...
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Mar 08, 2009
Ryan
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My dad loves all his books and I read over a hundred while staving off the night terrors when growing up.
It is a strange fact about the old west, Indians, and the genocidal take over of the land now called the United States that fiction writing about them is often taken for truth (see Ward Churchill's Fantasies of the Master Race). The back of almost every L'amour novel lauds his knowledge of "how it really was" and the fact that he could've been one of the tough, honorable More...
It is a strange fact about the old west, Indians, and the genocidal take over of the land now called the United States that fiction writing about them is often taken for truth (see Ward Churchill's Fantasies of the Master Race). The back of almost every L'amour novel lauds his knowledge of "how it really was" and the fact that he could've been one of the tough, honorable More...
Feb 19, 2011
AnEyeSpy
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*** "From the Listening Hills" is twelve short stories by Louis L'Amour, mostly clever courage under hard circumstances. I enjoyed all the classic western action, except the title tragedy of a whole family persecuted and decimated by a rumor-monger villain. Two memorable unique crime tales, both with deceptive females, are in another collection too. "Sand Trap" tells about an ex-soldier framed for murder by a honey trap dame and her lover. The lone hero cleverly and expertly
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Oct 20, 2010
Jack
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An interesting posthumous collection of short stories by Master Storyteller, Louis L'Amour. If you think that all he wrote was "cowboy stories" and westerns, you've not read his works. Too many people I know will scoff when they see me reading one of his books, but I learned a lot about writing a good story from L'Amour and Heinlein. Here, I've rediscovered the joy of a good short-story!
Jul 27, 2011
I'm not sure I like some of the more moderns storis as much as the traditional westerns.
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