Author Topic: We've had the Movies now how about the top Western Books (Read 5246 times)

pauld · « **on:** September 23, 2011, 01:17:17 PM »

I like a good movie but I ove a great book

I can watch a movie after a book but will never enjoy a book as much after seeing the movie/TV series first (unless after a looooong gap)

My contenders

Little Big Man - he meets 'em all, great and small
Son of the Morning Star - Custer and the Greasey Grass
Lonesome Dove - of course (sequels and prequels are merely OK)
Appaloosa - and all the Cole and Hitch books (Robert Parker has a wonderful spare style and ear for dialogue)
The West by Jon E Lewis - not a novel but a great potted history of the American West
Flashman and the Redskins was fun
Centennial and Texas by Michener (also a bit of Chesapeake I suppose)
Gone to Texas - Josey Wales

Give me some of your recommendations - please

I feel the need for read

Lowtardog · « **Reply #1 on:** September 23, 2011, 01:35:07 PM »

Not really a western fiction reader but I do like weird western fiction

Skin Medicine has to be the one for me

thebinmann · « **Reply #2 on:** September 23, 2011, 01:57:50 PM »

Again not westen but Battle Cry of Freedom is a great read about the Civil War

goon3423 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 23, 2011, 03:26:59 PM »

Blood Meridian...that is all

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joroas · « **Reply #4 on:** September 23, 2011, 03:28:28 PM »

Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front?

Bugsda · « **Reply #5 on:** September 23, 2011, 04:15:03 PM »

Geronimo: His Own Story
Once They Moved Like The Wind, David Roberts
End of Custer, Dale T Schoenberger
Scalp Dance, Thomas Goodrich
Death in the Desert, Paul I Welman
Hombre, Elmore Leonard
Triggernometry, Eugene Cunningham
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, Dee Brown

Woops! One too many but I can't decide which to cull

Oh! Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides, but that's an audio book so I don't know if it counts

pauld · « **Reply #6 on:** September 23, 2011, 04:43:08 PM »

Scalp Dance - forgpt that one

a good if sometimes gruesome read

a lot there I have not read Bugsda - I will check them out

Zaheer · « **Reply #7 on:** September 23, 2011, 07:22:21 PM »

I loved Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee. A fairly laborious read in places but very affecting.

thebinmann · « **Reply #8 on:** September 23, 2011, 08:28:51 PM »

Quote from: Bugsda on September 23, 2011, 04:15:03 PM

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, Dee Brown

Woops! One too many but I can't decide which to cull

Certainly not this one!

Johnno · « **Reply #9 on:** September 23, 2011, 08:57:20 PM »

Appaloosa, Resolution, Brimstone all by the late Robert B. Parker

Malamute · « **Reply #10 on:** September 23, 2011, 10:25:34 PM »

Reading Two for Texas by James Lee Burket at the moment and really enjoying it.

"A road we do not know" is a great novelisation of the battle of Little Big Horn. Can't remember the author at the moment. But worth a read.

starkadder · « **Reply #11 on:** September 23, 2011, 10:45:19 PM »

Deadwood by Pete Dexter. It's absolutely magic.
Definitely Little Big Man, a great film as well

pauld · « **Reply #12 on:** September 24, 2011, 10:04:22 AM »

Quote

A road we do not know" is a great novelisation of the battle of Little Big Horn. Can't remember the author at the moment. But worth a read

Frederick Chiaventone (sp?) I have that somewhere - a good book

I also need to get the Custer book by Nathaniel Philbrick. Has anyone read it?

Gibby · « **Reply #13 on:** September 24, 2011, 10:20:55 AM »

Quote from: goon3423 on September 23, 2011, 03:26:59 PM

Blood Meridian...that is all .

The author's staunch refusal to use punctuation put me off that book. It clearly doesn't bother others because his books sell millions, but I find the idea that he won't use quote marks because it "makes the page look messy" really f***ing irritating!

matakishi · « **Reply #14 on:** September 24, 2011, 12:15:55 PM »

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