I was watching and the term "Book-aroos" popped in my head when you mentioned your co-hosts 😆

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

That’s fantastic!

Thanks to you, I'm reading volume one of the Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour. So far everything you said about him rings true. I am enjoying the way he tells a story. These short stories show what a craftsman he was.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, he was! I’m glad you are enjoying his work.

The Sackett stories were some of my favorites with The Day Breakers being my No. 1. I always really liked Down the Long Hills, with those two kids on that big red horse fighting to survive in the wilderness with that bear stalking them. Great stuff!! Also the Kilkenny books about a gunman just looking for some peace. Favorite short stories: Ponga Jim Mayo pulp fiction stories, Hills of Homicidea noir detectives, and the Chick Bowdrie Texas Ranger mysteries. My dad had all of his books and they were some of the first adult novels I read. I turned to them again and again over the years. Great tales!

@michaelk.vaughan8617

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, his books were everywhere when I was growing up. It had been a while since I had read any so doing June on the Range would have been worth it just for that. Thanks so much for watching!

Thanks for the recommendations, pardner. I'm just starting Louis L'Amour, so this is a good place to begin. I've ordered both books. Looking forward to June 2024.

Ok, I’ll admit, now I’m getting really pumped to read the Louis L’Amour book I picked up 😊

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

You should! He was a very entertaining writer.

Love the cowboy hat and Western shirt. Your valet did you proud.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

He’s earned a bonus.

Always liked him. The first LL book I read about 50 yrs ago was North to the rails.

Loved the video. My dad has a ton of leather bound editions of Louis L’Amour from back when I was a kid. He was part of a club or something. I’m definitely going to read Fallon and probably Crossfire Trail too. One of my dad's favorites was Last of the Breed and the Sackett novels.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

I remember those fancy editions! I used to see those around all the time.

I read The Quick and the Dead and Hondo this month, mostly enjoyable. There were a lot of similarities it that made my reading of Hondo drag a little. That and the lifestyle described was more alien to me than stories about aliens.

“You’re not going to be the same person in your 60s and 70s as you were in your 20s”????? But I … but I thought…

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

Well, you wouldn’t know because you are always 28.

Awesome outfit partner! I just read my first Western thanks to June on the Range. Wow, talk about the stereotypical western (well, what I think is stereotypical anyway). "Goodnight's Dream" (the book I read) was definitely a cowboy novel - made me hungry for steak :)

L'amour is one of the favourites. I intend to read all of his books.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

An excellent challenge! And an entertaining one, for sure.

I just read Sitka (finished it before June started, but whatever) and I had forgotten just how great a write L’Amour was. His books are just so good. I need to read more. -T

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

You know, I don’t think I read Sitka.

@AnEruditeAdventure

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 I quite enjoyed it. As an Alaskan, I’d been wanting to read it for a long time, but never got to it until recently.

Great video - I’m actually reading Crossfire Trail at the moment and enjoying it a lot.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I liked that one.

Roger wants to know if he belongs on the Range. After all the desert can't kill Roger twice.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

You are dead right!

I read my first Louis L'Amour book this month, The Quick and the Dead... I enjoyed it but Fallon sounds better!

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

Fallon is really good. I read QATD too long ago to make a fair comparison though.

Thanks Michael, interesting review. Never read any of the Rex comics. I did enjoy Sgt. Rock as a kid in the 60's and Kuber's artwork was fantastic.

I am reading his book Bendigo Shafter for June on the Range.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

I remember liking that one. I think I must have been in my twenties when I read it so….a long time ago.

They both sound great. So I guess the town Fallon is set in is Las Vegas ? 🤣

My favorite LL book is Hondo.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

Great book!

Quintessential

Those books sound fun. Reminds me the Red Dead Redemption video game. I haven't read a ton of Westerns but that's something I need to change.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up with them so I’ve read a ton of them. They are fun.

@BradProctorReads

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 at one of the Half Priced Books close to me they recently had a big collection of Louis L'Amour books, like maybe 30 or 40, that were all matching leather-bound editions.

It should be Howdy Partner welcome to the Vaughan Ranch home of the Lazy > brand or maybe simply Fort Vaughan.

I've started The Trail to Crazy by Louis L'Amour ...I blame you and Mr Donoghue... it is a shorter version of Crossfire Trail...

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

I didn’t know about the shorter version. Interesting.

Also like his Hopalong Cassidy.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

Me too.

I definitely think writers change through their lives. It may be nuanced changes, but most career writers slightly change. For example, though Stephen King has his unique style, I think his writing feels a bit different now then his books from the 70s.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, his books definitely have a different feel to them now.

I don't know where L'Amour was when he wrote Shalako, but I sure don't ever wanna be there myself. 😂 Still, he was a really good writer I think, and I devoured his books.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

It’s easy to rip right through a bunch of his books at once.

Question.....Did You get the feel That David Gemmell was a fan of His???

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

I suspect he probably was.

@jamesfetcho6315

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 👍

I reckon ain't overly fond of yon Western genre, so mine attention may wonder o'r yonder this here June on the Range. Nevertheless, I did find a couple L'amour books in my thrifting ventures, that I grabbed on account of your past endorsement of the man - "Hondo" and "Haunted Mesa".

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

Hondo is really good. Haunted Mesa is a whole other thing!

@MagusMarquillin

2 жыл бұрын

​@@michaelk.vaughan8617 Not sure if that's a recommendation on HM or not, but I guess being something else is worthy in of itself.

Read a bunch of Louis L'Amour over the years. Part of the reason his characters are so good is that many were drawn from people he knew earlier in life. BTW, if you can change your "Garbaugust" lineup, and you want to add a trash Western, pick up one of the "Edge" series. Widely advertised as the bloodiest Western series written, they...weren't kidding. It's a cross between action-western and what is now called torture pron. (Spelling intentional). Truly, truly trash westerns. Lots of really nasty knife work, slowly hanging people, etc. Let's see you read THAT on the BART one morning and record the looks you get.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

2 жыл бұрын

CriminOlly has been talking about the Edge books for months. You are right, I should pick some of those up.