The High Graders

Αυτό είναι το πρώτο βιβλίο του Λουίς Λ'Αμούρ που διαβάζω και πραγματικά το απόλαυσα. Στο βιβλίο αυτό ο Μάικ Σέλβιν επιστρέφει στην πόλη Ράφτερ Κρόσινγκ για να μάθει τι πραγματικά συνέβη με τον θάνατο του Ηλάι Πάτερσον ενός άντρα που στο παρελθόν τον βοήθησε πολύ, ωστόσο αντί για την ήσυχη πόλη των κ......more

Road trip read. I could be all snobby, and make it clear this was my husband's pick. However, with each L'Amour book I read, my appreciation for his writing grows. In the same way I enjoy the Britishisms of the cozy English novel, L'Amour offers western aphorisms and axioms that delight the ear. I c......more

Convoluted for a Western - probably because L'Amour tried to put too much murder-mystery into it, and as such had to use much too large of a cast of characters, most of which weren't fleshed out enough to care much. Also didn't work well because it was pretty easy to see whodunnit halfway through th......more

This is only my second western, and I read both this year, but judging from the other reviews I read, I wasn’t alone in feeling like there were TOO MANY DAMNED CHARACTERS in this book to deal with. Luckily, only a handful are important. But they are all treated like they are significant upon introdu......more