I just finished my first Louis L'amour and loved it. The official LL website provides the correct chronological order of the Sackett novels so I started with the first suggested novel, Sackett’s Land. Here's the list:
http://www.louislamour.com/sackett/index.htm
The story takes place in 1599 and tells the story of Barnabas Sackett, patriarch of the Sackett clan, and his adventure of coming to America. It is, of course, a work of fiction, but L'amour intermingles facts throughout the book. After finishing the book I decided to read a little about LL and discovered he was a voracious reader and great student of history who loved to include this knowledge in his works of fiction.
Anyway, highly recommended and I will be reading more from him in the future. There are plenty to choose from as he is one of the most prolific authors ever.
I've now moved on to 1776 by David McCullough. I just started it, but so far seems it will be as enjoyable as John Adams.
Louis L'amour
Louis L'amour
"I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of the nineteenth-century sciences which denied existence of anything it could not reason or explain. The things we couldn't explain went right on but not with our blessing... So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic, because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out."
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God."
- Micah 6:8
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God."
- Micah 6:8
Re: Louis L'amour
I"ve been reading some Max Brand lately. Ever had the pleasure?
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Re: Louis L'amour
You might be interested in his intellectual autobiography, Education of a Wandering Man. A friend briefed our book club on it a couple of years ago. I didn't follow L'amour and didn't care for the movies based on his books, so I was astonished at his incredible personal history and how he developed into a writer. Naturally he was a prolific reader as well, and, in his youth while he was bumming around the world on tramp steamers and working in logging camps, he set out a reading program for himself, which he describes in the book. Basically it was his own Great Books reading program 20 years before the Great Books series was devised. Altogether a fascinating life and mind.keaggy wrote:I just finished my first Louis L'amour and loved it.
I partook in my yout. Read a bunch of them. Loved 'em. Can't say as I recall a single one, but the memory of reading them and fetching home a new one from the drug store book rack is fond.D wrote:I"ve been reading some Max Brand lately. Ever had the pleasure?
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Re: Louis L'amour
Brand was one pseudonym for Frederick Faust who also gave us Dr. Kildare!
Re: Louis L'amour
Thanks for the info, I'll be sure to check ti out.Corlyss_D wrote:You might be interested in his intellectual autobiography, Education of a Wandering Man. A friend briefed our book club on it a couple of years ago. I didn't follow L'amour and didn't care for the movies based on his books, so I was astonished at his incredible personal history and how he developed into a writer. Naturally he was a prolific reader as well, and, in his youth while he was bumming around the world on tramp steamers and working in logging camps, he set out a reading program for himself, which he describes in the book. Basically it was his own Great Books reading program 20 years before the Great Books series was devised. Altogether a fascinating life and mind.keaggy wrote:I just finished my first Louis L'amour and loved it.
I partook in my yout. Read a bunch of them. Loved 'em. Can't say as I recall a single one, but the memory of reading them and fetching home a new one from the drug store book rack is fond.D wrote:I"ve been reading some Max Brand lately. Ever had the pleasure?
"I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of the nineteenth-century sciences which denied existence of anything it could not reason or explain. The things we couldn't explain went right on but not with our blessing... So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic, because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out."
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God."
- Micah 6:8
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God."
- Micah 6:8
Re: Louis L'amour
save your time and cut to the greatest Western novel written
Re: Louis L'amour
What about Lonesome Dove?
Re: Louis L'amour
a somewhat distant secondD wrote:What about Lonesome Dove?
Re: Louis L'amour
I'm definitely interested in reading some Cormac McCarthy. Thanks for the suggestion.BWV 1080 wrote:save your time and cut to the greatest Western novel written
"I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of the nineteenth-century sciences which denied existence of anything it could not reason or explain. The things we couldn't explain went right on but not with our blessing... So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic, because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out."
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God."
- Micah 6:8
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God."
- Micah 6:8
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