I used to have a habit, a really bad habit. You see I used to read his books but not just any books, they had to meet two requirements.

1-be leather bound.
2-be one of his westerns

One day someone decided they need them more than I did.
I haven’t read one since.

 

Two of my favorites were Last of the breed, and The walking drum. Neither are westerns. I’m 99% positive I’ve read all of his books several years ago.
When you read the short biography in the back of his novels, and realize what all the man had done in life it’s amazing. The detail he gives to certain things almost certainly came from all his various experiences in life.

 

Those two were certainly from his good years. Not that he had anything else. I think I've read all of his books during the last 50-plus years, but those two are the only ones in the bookshelf here.

 

I’ve only read one but it was excellent and taught true principles. The Lonesome Gods.

 

I started reading him in the early 70’s. I collected all the western stories and then started gathering up some his Police Gazette submissions. I really enjoy the way he tells a story!

 

Once you read through all of his westerns you should check out this book. It’s been 20 years since I’ve read it. I don’t think any book has made me laugh as hard as this one.

 

Thanks for the recommendation. Looks like a fun read.
I'll definitely check it out.

 

The only Louis L'amour book I've read was "Last of the Breed." I absolutely loved it. A half Scottish, half native American AF pilot crashes in Northern Russia, old Soviet Russia. He's captured but escapes into the wilderness and survives while being hunted.

Being an outdoorsman and a bit of a survivalist my whole life this book held my interest as a teen.

 

I have read pretty much all his books.
Years ago . We didn't have a TV and All Gore hadn't invented the internet yet. So reading was the entertainment.

Just a little FYI.
When he was describing a scene in one of his books.
Everything in the scene was there in real life.
If someone was hiding behind a rock or tree , crossing a stream , riding along a ridge and so on.
All that was actually real.

Zane Gray novels were the same.

 

i think one reason i like dean koontz books is that the settings are real places local to me, so when somebody is driving down a street, i have driven down that street!

i recommend Watchers.

 

I read every book he wrote all in paperback. Saved them all, I found out my friends daughter started reading them, I asked her if she would like the whole collection, you never saw such a big smile 😀.

 

i read a couple when i was a kid because somebody let me borrow them. hondo and the broken gun.

 

I've read lots of them over a long time. My MIL used to send them to me when she found them at yard sales. I'm a very prolific reader, at least a a couple books a week when I'm busy and lots more when I'm not. Westerns, history, southwestern in general, mysteries, some sci-fi, just about anything...I recently read a book on Billy the Kid unlike any I'd read before called "Joy of the Birds". Really well done.

 

I think I’ve read every one he’s written. My favorite is probably Sackett (the first one), but Taggart is a close second. Since then I’ve been reading all of CJ Box’s Joe Pickett Series. Read em all to date, too. Thing in The Joe Pickett books, he sometimes says, ”things are going to get Western…” which, at least to me, is clear reference to Louis L’amour.

 

A few weeks ago a large leather bound collection of his books were sold at auction along with all household items. They quickly went past my current squirrel funds for books, but they were really nice.

 

I've read most of them, and my late mother was a huge fan as well. The Sackett family books are something of a history in themselves, tracing the westward migration of the family over two or three centuries, from the fen country of England through Appalachia and on into the Southwest. They're especially fun if you live in the Rockies or the Southwest, as I have since my teens, because L'Amour knew the country and used real places. As he put it in one of his forewords, "If I put a spring in one of my stories, it will be there if you go look, and the water will be good."
If you like books with that sort of flavor to them, you might enjoy the Westerns written by Donald Hamilton. He's better known for his Matt Helm books, secret agent stuff set in post-WWII America and Europe, but he did good work in his Westerns, too. Mad River is one of the better ones.
If you like the country, or just want to know more about the Southwest, the Tony Hillerman books, which are set mostly on the Big Rez, the Navajo-Hopi Reservation that takes up about half of northern Arizona and a good chunk of New Mexico, are very good. Hillerman started as a newspaper reporter in New Mexico and went on to become chairman of the Journalism Department at University of New Mexico. You can find a sample of his writing here: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=4453&context=nmq. The later books set on the Rez are not so tongue-in-cheek, mostly rather serious murder mysteries. His daughter, Ann Hillerman, has continued the series, but she doesn't have his flair, nor apparently the chops to tell the editor where to stuff it when he/she wants to cut it down to best-seller material. Sadly, that means editing the story for the average reading level of people who by best-sellers, which happens to be 4th grade English these days.

 

Read a lot growing up. All the old and new sci fi authors, then I got into Ed McBain, Hammett and Chandler along with the classic who done it‘s but I don’t think Ive ever read a western novel by anybody. I do like some Western swing though.

 

He wrote more than western novels but western novels is in my world what he I known for. A lot of western movies were made based off his western novels.

My grandfather really like him and read many of his books in paperback , he is the one that got me reading his novels.

 

They’re all good reads but my favorites growing up were definitely the Sacketts, a great series of books.

 

Wife's a fan. What is he, a French cowboy with a curly mustashe?

 

Midshift reading fodder, worked with a guy whose locker at work was filled top to bottom with L'amour's books, read 'em all likely more than once.

 

I like the Sacketts series the best but they all are good. I think I have every book he has written in paper back. All were found in used book stores. I like C J Box also, I waited for months to get his latest from the library.

 

My dad worked road construction heavy equipment often away from home and read a lot of paperbacks then brought them home.. I think he started the LL books in the mid '60s so I did too. At one time I think I had read most of him, and liked 'em. Off and on through the years Ive read or reread some and they had 'aged well' (better than me, lol). He became my standard to compare any other western novel author to.

 

while deployed in 1985, the ship's store had a paperback book exchange. I think I read 30 of his books, then we swapped the books on our ship for the books our sister ship had.
I have my own leather covered copy of Jubal Sackett. I found an entire shelf full of his hard cover books at the local library recently. Some still have the old cards in the back covers and have not been stamped (checked out) since the nineties. I am now reading them whenever I get the time.

 

I've read most of his stuff. Two of my favorites are his memoir "Education of a Wandering Man" and his book of verse "Smoke From This Altar".
Ride Safe. Dr.Tramp...........

 

NO. Not a Fan.

 

One of my favorite authors seems like I've read hundreds of his westerns.

 

If you ever get a chance read "Brules" by Harry Combs. Also "The Scout" which was a sequel. Great stories extremely well done. And if you are at all familiar with Northern NM, Southern Colorado and West Texas they really ring true.

 

"Flint", and "Reillys Luck" are my two favorites.