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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Back on track, a type of book I enjoy that, well maybe others don't hate but they do ignore, is westerns. It's a shame how far westerns have fallen.
I don't care so much for their historical accuracy. I haven't read Louis L'Amour.
I enjoy the larger than life operatic elements you can find in them. In film, I prefer the Italian spaghetti westerns and in books, there was a group of British writers in the 60s and 70s called the Piccadilly Cowboys who churned out tons of western novels, though none of them had ever been west of Piccadilly (that was the joke in their name). There's something about that type of story that really speaks to me.
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Louis L'Amour was my favorite even as a kid. I read lots of westerns growing up and always hated the ones with the protagonist struggling through the story make all kinds of mistakes and miraculously pulling out the win at the end. The one thing I liked about LL was his protagonists, men and women, were smart and tough.
If you read one LL book, get The Walking Drum. It is a historical novel set in Europe and the Middle East in the 12th century.
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