Sanctuary

disapointing......more

This book mirrors our society in the not too distant future. It's scary to think we could become a culture of crowd dominance.......more

When I was much younger, I went through a phase where I read a lot of Westerns, particularly Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey. But in the last few years the only westerns I've read have been mostly the Wagons West series by Dana Fuller Ross, and Lonesome Dove. I loved Lonesome Dove, and after that wonder......more

For a prototypical western, this novel was good enough to earn an award in 1990. I had never read anything by the author Gary Svee, but was offered this one in return for a review. One of the tropes common in westerns is the "stranger coming to town." Here, we have an itinerant preacher named Mordec......more

This is a reissue of this book and I am glad it is. I found this to be a very enjoyable and quick read. I don’t think I would have come across this western any other way. It starts off with a man arriving at the train station in Sanctuary Montana, and he is unlike most men who wear a preacher’s coll......more