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re: Let's talk Louis L'Amour...
Posted on 10/28/15 at 11:02 am to VaBamaMan
Posted on 10/28/15 at 11:02 am to VaBamaMan
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Have you read The Lonesome Gods or Sitka yet?
Nope, assume they're equally awesome?
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Now would be the perfect time for this to be adapted, I just think a TV show would be better. It would be literally impossible to fit the full story into even a 3 hour movie.
Good call! with the quality of tv mini series these days this would be fantastic. A movie really would not do it justice. 8-10 episodes would be just right.
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Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.
One of the most unforgettable quotes IMO. When I got to this in the book I think I read it over and over just thinking "yes!!!!!!!"
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Posted on 10/28/15 at 12:14 pm to GoldenSombrero
I'm trying to get the whole collection in leather bound. To the Far Blue Mountains is my all time favorite of his.
Posted on 10/28/15 at 2:27 pm to HogBalls
I loved Jubal. I'll have to check out some of the other recommendations in this thread after I finish with Cornwell's grail series.
Posted on 10/28/15 at 2:31 pm to AubieALUMdvm
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Nope, assume they're equally awesome?
If Lonesome God's had been written by a different author, one who wasn't a "Western" writer, it would be an American classic imo. It is L'amour's best book.
Sitka is rarely seen. It's the only L'amour book Bantam doesn't have the publishing rights for, at least, to my knowledge. L'amour even wrote a letter to fans at one point telling them not to buy it because it wasn't a Bantam book. However, it is quite good. Involves the Alaska purchase, russian princesses, corruption, and smugglers.
This post was edited on 10/28/15 at 5:43 pm
Posted on 12/8/15 at 6:54 pm to VaBamaMan
Since posting this originally I've read 3 more L'Amour books. All have been excellent, Last of the Breed being one of my favorites all time, but is it just me or do the endings seem abrupt? Perhaps it's just a sign it was worth reading, not wanting it to end.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 6:55 pm to GoldenSombrero
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Perhaps it's just a sign it was worth reading, not wanting it to end.
This, oh so much this
Posted on 12/9/15 at 9:40 am to GoldenSombrero
Started reading Lamour at 14 and have read every book at least twice. While being immensely entertaining, there are many practical life lessons in each book. I will encourage my 9 year old son to read them all when he is at an age he can appreciate them.
They give you a different perspective on life that is invaluable.I believe that if one were to read every Lamour novel, He would come away with a wealth of knowledge equal to or greater than he could acquire in college. Lamour never went to college but he maintained that true education was a life long process of reading.
They give you a different perspective on life that is invaluable.I believe that if one were to read every Lamour novel, He would come away with a wealth of knowledge equal to or greater than he could acquire in college. Lamour never went to college but he maintained that true education was a life long process of reading.
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“Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.”
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