I don't want to stir off topic (again) but in all fairness to
L'Amour, neither the thrillers nor his hard-boiled stories
are the ones that earned him his reputation. I'm only getting
started with his work so I couldn't really tell if I believ
he's as good as they say. Based on what I've seen so far,
however, I wouldn't call him unreadable.
-GB. sweethomealameda.blogspot.com
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, BaxDeal@... wrote:
>
> > I just bought "The Hills of Homicide," a
collection of eight crime
> > short stories by Western writer Louis L'Amour.
Has anyone here
heard
> > of the book or read it? I knew L'Amour had
written numerous
stories
> > outside the genre that made him famous, but I
wasn't aware that
these
> > in particular had been anthologized. The Bantam
edition does not
> > provide any information about the publication
dates but L'Amour
says
> > in the intro that he used to publish in the
same magazines that
> > Hammett, Chandler and Woolrich did, so I assume
he's referring to
> > Black Mask and similar titles. The stories are
billed as "hard-
boiled"
> > by L'Amour himself but I'm curious as to what
the members of this
list
> > think of them.
> >
>
> I've read just one L'Amour, a contemporary cold war
thriller. I
finished it
> because I was being paid to adapt it to the screen.
he has by far
one of
> the most unreadable prose styles I have ever
encountered in modern
fiction.
> and he hits whatever meager points he wants to make
again and again
as if with a
> hammer
>
> Louis L'Amour? Louis L'Haine
>
> John Lau
>
>
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