> 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
That would be LAST OF THE BREED, from late in L'Amour's
career and not a good book. His pulp stories and his Western
novels from the Fifties and early Sixties are better,
although I've always thought he was overrated as a Western
writer. But when he was on his game, he was a fine
storyteller.
James Reasoner
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