Anyone read Louis L'Amour?

[edjen01]

Originally Posted by John Atkinson

I have read most if not all. Faves:
The first 3 Sackett novels: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains and The Warrior Path
Walking Drum - I had really hoped for a sequal to this one.
Haunted Mesa - A little side trip into alternate realities -- I think Lious wanted to do scifi and this is as close as he could come and stay in genre
Last of the Breed -- Also not a western, side venture into modern military adventure,


The best thing about Loius was his life, the guy lived like one of his characters.

Thanks, now I gotta reread a lot of these. Amazon.com here I come.

i've found that you can also pick them up at Half-Price Books....for about half price.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by edjen01

i've found that you can also pick them up at Half-Price Books....for about half price.

Wow... Isn't that ironic.

[TK Burk]

While we were in Indiana, we had a visiting preacher from Texas who preached a message that centered on the King Ranch of South Texas. The church's young men and young women mostly sat on the front pews. One young man that night started telling the guys around him what the preacher was going to say before he said it. Because of his accuracy, the other fellas started thinking that young man was a prophet or something. What that young man knew that they didn't know was that the Texas preacher's message was taken almost word-for-word from a Louis L'Amour book. And since the young man was a huge L'Amour fan, he knew what the book said.

[John Atkinson]

Originally Posted by edjen01

i've found that you can also pick them up at Half-Price Books....for about half price.

Thank Ya!! I lost my collection when I moved up here from TX 20 years ago.

[Sherri]

Eddie collected the leather covered ones years ago, when you could buy them one at a time through Time Warner. He used to read them, but it's been years. My dad has read the whole collection too.

[edjen01]

Originally Posted by TK Burk

While we were in Indiana, we had a visiting preacher from Texas who preached a message that centered on the King Ranch of South Texas. The church's young men and young women mostly sat on the front pews. One young man that night started telling the guys around him what the preacher was going to say before he said it. Because of his accuracy, the other fellas started thinking that young man was a prophet or something. What that young man knew that they didn't know was that the Texas preacher's message was taken almost word-for-word from a Louis L'Amour book. And since the young man was a huge L'Amour fan, he knew what the book said.

TK....having heard manya sermon...i'm sure it wasn't worst one you heard.

[TK Burk]

Originally Posted by edjen01

TK....having heard manya sermon...i'm sure it wasn't worst one you heard.

No, it certainly wasn't. You have me laughing just remembering some of those "worst ones".

[Monterrey]

I like a lot of the LL's, although he, at times, tended to drift into some mysticism and the native american occult. Like in haunted mesa, etc.

The others were great!



M.

[Hesetmefree238]

I have read a lot of his books over the years. Some of my favorites are Flint, The
Californios, Kilkenny, Utah Blaine, The Man Called Noon, and Comstock Lode.

[RevDWW]

When I was a pre-teen my uncle gave me my first LL book, Guns of the Timberlands. I was hooked and still am. He'd read them and then passed them on to me. What great stories. My kids like them, probably not as much as me. I picked up Guns of the Timberlands a few months ago and enjoyed it again. The family loves to listen to them on tape when we travel.

Keith, which book did you just read?