Louis answers “Is there any Western better than this one?...”

Alex Leaf asked this question about Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1):

Is there any Western better than this one? I think it may have ruined the genre for me.

Louis Arroyo IMHO, I think Lonesome Dove is a masterpiece that definitely deserves all the praise it has received. Is it the best western ever written .... only th…moreIMHO, I think Lonesome Dove is a masterpiece that definitely deserves all the praise it has received. Is it the best western ever written .... only the reader can decide. A lot of people would pick books like, Shane, The Virginian, Riders of the Purple Sage, The Big Sky and its sequel The Way West, over LD. And truth be told, there is no right or wrong answer.

I loved Lonsome Dove (it is one of my all time favorite books that happens to be a western) and recommend it to anyone who wants to read a great piece of literature. And yes ... after reading LD, the bar for all other western genre books has been set very high.
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