The Man From Laramie

A great read, especially if you loved the film so one might visualise James Stewart as Will Lockhart and not be disappointed in the written character. Slight spoiler alert: two of the characters in the novel were combined into one in the film, not uncommon in screenplay versions but the characters g......more

I throughly enjoyed this book. At first, I was a little bit confused, wondering what Will's stake in it was, but after a couple more chapters I figured it out. It can get a bit confusing with the switching of povs a lot, but it is very informative. If you liked the movie, you would like the book. If......more

Ugh, I didn't like this one. Like, okay, it started out fairly solid, and the writing was engaging, but it felt like the same plot points repeated over and over, and Flynn didn't do anything to really move the plot forward until the very end, at which point I had mostly lost interest and was only fin......more

I read this because of the Jimmy Stewart/Anthony Mann western. I enjoy reading a film's source novel and seeing how the book was changed to make it work as a film. Very often, good books are spoiled when transferred to the screen. In fact there are very few "good" books that have successfully made t......more

This is a good western, but it is more than that. The story is really one of greed and treachery. Will Lockhart is a ranch owner with his own problems. The man who came from Laramie has problems of his own. This is a tangled, twisted story that readers can get lost in.......more