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jonno99

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10. For fans of L'Amour I always recommend 2 books that are off the beaten path:
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 08:24 PM
Sep 2016

- 'The Walking Drum'. This is one of his "non-westerns", and which I believe, is the last book he published. Sadly, it was meant to be the first of a larger project, which of course he never got to.
https://www.amazon.com/Walking-LAmour-Published-Bantam-Hardcover/dp/B00HQLTL24/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1473988271&sr=8-2&keywords=The+Walking+Drum

- 'Education of a Wandering Man'. This is essentially his auto-biography. It is absolutely amazing how much this man read.
https://www.amazon.com/Education-Wandering-Man-Louis-LAmour/dp/0553286528/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473988240&sr=8-1&keywords=Education+of+a+Wandering+Man

Otherwise, yes I'm a big fan of his westerns too. My first exposure was during summer camp when I was a young lad. One of my cabin-mates had a copy of 'Flint' which he let me read, but I was unable to finish. It was years later before I found a copy and was able to finish it (this was long before Amazon of course).

In the meantime I read all the L'Amour books the public & school libraries held - including Hondo of course. L'Amour was a romantic - in the classic sense. And like many I love his stories - which more more often than not tell a tale of the "unstoppable man". Who doesn't want to be that guy?

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