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A mysterious stranger rides up to a lonely homestead. That's an archetypal Western figure, familiar in my reading of Westerns from a recommendation list, and certainly Shane is much better written and worth the reading than Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage or Louis L'Amour's Hondo or Max Brand's Destry Rides Again, even if I think this can't really match the classic 1953 film adaptation with Alan Ladd. The title character Shane is presented as a mythic figure, which is something of the book
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Fun to reread this book I first read in high school. I don't remember anything, like it I caught the subtle undertones between Mrs. Starrett. It was just a bit too much of . . . soul seriousness intent for me though.
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Feb 04, 2011
Nicole
marked it as to-read
Mar 27, 2011
Angela Randall
marked it as to-read
