And it's "steer" off topic. Sorry about that.
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "grbc74" <gbaeza@...>
wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --- In
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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> > See what's free at
> > http://www.aol.com.
> >
> >
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> >
>
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