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I don't know if I am going through a mood or what, but I did something last nite I haven't done in awhile, I pulled out an old Louis L'Amour novel and read it in one setting. Brings back good memories, when I evangelised back in the day, that was my form of entertainment between places to preach or services. I think I read at least 50 or more that year.

I told Elizabeth, it connects my soul to a good manly place, boots, leather, guns, horses, beautiful country, a little bit of American History, I love it!

Anyone here like to read, Louis L'Amour?

I think that Chick Bowdrie is one of my favorites characters.

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My dad used to read them,about the only thing I read now is the bible and reference works,I read the newspaper every once in awhile.

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Scott, they are great reading, I think that they are healing for the soul of a man! Before Jack Bauer, there was Chick Bowdrie!

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I've read most of Louis L'Amour's books. I like his dramatized audio books, especially while traveling.

The late Rev. Jim Yohe had a suitcase of L'Amour books with him at UPC General Conference's ... he'd trade or sell them to others there. He told me once, while on a tour of Lightouse Ranch for Boys, that he only allowed two types of books there ... the Bible and Louis L'Amour novels. :)

I liked Chick Bowdrie and the Sackett novels - those were my favorites.

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I should read other things I guess but mostly I read my bible right now I am reading a book by a guy name Eusiebus or something like that it is called Ecclesiastical history.
I certainly could stand to read some decent books though.

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No sir...

They appear to be requisite reading if one plans on being an apostolic minister.

I guess I'll never make it then.

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I have read a fair bit of them. I especially enjoy the tales of Chick Bowdry. My favorite book of his is probably "Dark Caynon".
His books equal quick and easy reading, almost like a short story, good for multiple readings.

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Ive read them all. and I have read most of them many times!


Down the Long Hills is my all time favorite. There is a lot of good fatherly wisdom in that book.

Walking Drum, though not a western nor is it a quick read is my second favorite but they are all great.

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I have read most if not all. Faves:
The first 3 Sackett novels: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains and The Warrior Path
Walking Drum - I had really hoped for a sequal to this one.
Haunted Mesa - A little side trip into alternate realities -- I think Lious wanted to do scifi and this is as close as he could come and stay in genre
Last of the Breed -- Also not a western, side venture into modern military adventure,


The best thing about Loius was his life, the guy lived like one of his characters. And he had the same character that he imarted to his created ones, besides all that, if he described a piece of landscape, it is there, he didn't make it up.

Thanks, now I gotta reread a lot of these. Amazon.com here I come.

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he was a master storyteller...hmmm...like someone else i read a lot about.

i own all of his books & have read them many times...even his non-westerns.

i firmly believe that reading LL will help anyone become a better speaker/storyteller...and dare i say even preacher.

i love the Sacketts....talk about a family.

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i've found that you can also pick them up at Half-Price Books....for about half price.:)

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Wow... Isn't that ironic. :)

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While we were in Indiana, we had a visiting preacher from Texas who preached a message that centered on the King Ranch of South Texas. The church's young men and young women mostly sat on the front pews. One young man that night started telling the guys around him what the preacher was going to say before he said it. Because of his accuracy, the other fellas started thinking that young man was a prophet or something. What that young man knew that they didn't know was that the Texas preacher's message was taken almost word-for-word from a Louis L'Amour book. And since the young man was a huge L'Amour fan, he knew what the book said. :)

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Thank Ya!! I lost my collection when I moved up here from TX 20 years ago.

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Eddie collected the leather covered ones years ago, when you could buy them one at a time through Time Warner. He used to read them, but it's been years. My dad has read the whole collection too.

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TK....having heard manya sermon...i'm sure it wasn't worst one you heard.:)

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No, it certainly wasn't. You have me laughing just remembering some of those "worst ones".

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I like a lot of the LL's, although he, at times, tended to drift into some mysticism and the native american occult. Like in haunted mesa, etc.

The others were great!



M.

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I have read a lot of his books over the years. Some of my favorites are Flint, The
Californios, Kilkenny, Utah Blaine, The Man Called Noon, and Comstock Lode.

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When I was a pre-teen my uncle gave me my first LL book, Guns of the Timberlands. I was hooked and still am. He'd read them and then passed them on to me. What great stories. My kids like them, probably not as much as me. I picked up Guns of the Timberlands a few months ago and enjoyed it again. The family loves to listen to them on tape when we travel.

Keith, which book did you just read?

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L'Amour and Zane Grey. I have read them all. Between my brother and myself we have both complete collections.

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I read a few of ZG's. I remember a character in one that was a woodsman...I think his name was Wetzel. Do you know the name of it?

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You are asking me to remember 25 + years ago. WOW. The name sounds familiar but nothing off the top of my head. I will check it out and get back to you.

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Lewis Wetzel, wasn't he an early character of Grey's.

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Seems I recall that he left the bad man attached to a tree via a large hunting knife for having treated a young woman with ill will and disrepect........:thumbsup

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I can't recall his first name.......

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Try 'The Last Trail' and I think it was part of 'The Zane Grey Trilogy'.

he coud be in that entire series and not just the one book.

The Spirit if the Border might even be part of that series.

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they have most titles in audiobook mp3 at audible.com, as a memberr I get 2 books a month, I'll probbly get the ones I want there as these days I like listening more than reading

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You are right.

They have it online at The Project Gutenberg and some of his others as well.

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I'm too spiritual for all those books.

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Wetzel was a frontiersman who actually existed and Zane Grey made him larger than life in his books. Books with him in them would have probably taken place in the Ohio Valley region.

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Jon has those leather covered ones too. When my dad died, I got all his LL books, so we've got quite a collection between us.

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Well, I am not a man and I like reading Louis L'Amour books. I also like Zane Grey.

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I've read a lot of Louis L'amour. I enjoy them if that's what I'm in the mood for. I prefer British Lit. :)

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If you like L'amour you should try Max Brand

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I prefer murder/suspense novels...I haven't a LL book and probably won't. Just because that ain't my style :D!

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I love LL's books, although it's been quite a while since I've read one.

I love the way he was so detailed in his writing. In fact, when we made a cross-country trip to the west coast a few years ago, I felt as if I had already been there. The countryside was just as LL had described it in his writings! I think he was also pretty accurate in telling some history, although he wrote fiction.

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I can't see using my time to read fiction.

If I am going to read I would prefer to study. This is purely a personal preference of my own... but it is how I feel about it.

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I respect your preference, but I have learned a LOT by reading fiction. A lot.

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Plus, it can be a little mini get-away.