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Title: The Burning Hills by Louis L'Amour ISBN: 0-553-28210-7 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The desert is a metaphor of life and love
Comment: Western literature has an undeniable charm and represents a unique creation in the world. Let me get rid of the radical rejection of Indians as blood craving and war monging individuals with no individuality. Native Americans are rejected into and by such clichés. The land grabbing thieves that the Europeans were are calling wolf when the original landowners start defending their property. But western literature goes a lot farther than that. It shows an essential side of humanity : the desire to go beyond limits, to force the future, to create a new world out of nothing, or out of not much, to curb nature to human needs and projects, and Indians are only part of that nature. It also shows how human feelings are reduced to some basics that can be the foundations of a more complex construction, but that are most of the time the essential part of that construction that never gets off the ground. Humanity living within its basic needs. Love is thus reduced to the need to be needed and the need to be protected along with the need to need and the need to protect. This is simple but essential. We can maybe regret that all the romanticism and the elaborate feelings that love implies are not included in the western recipe but the basic sentiments of need-beneeded and protect-beprotected are an essential human attitude that shows how man and woman can only survive and create the future in difficult situation because that is their destiny. It is this fundamental human destiny to conquer the world and transform it which is essential in western literature. Then what do we do when these values are projected into modern life ? That's a completely different question that requires a lot of thinking and much discussing. Western literature is a central melting pot from which the iron of human endeavor can be produced and refined.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
Rating: 3
Summary: The good stuff by L'Amour
Comment: This was one of the L'Amour books that I think is the reason so many people came to love his writing. It's about a strong hero who has a good purpose behind him, and there's romance in it and a LOT of action. But the chapters are so LONG! There are only five chapters in the book, and they go on forever and ever. I can't believe L'Amour would do that. It made the book drag in a few places. I had to keep comparing this book to books by Kirby Jonas, who critics call the New Louis L'AMour. The difference between them is that I could never put Jonas's books down, but I was able to put down Louis L'Amour. I'm glad L'Amour wrote this book, and I can see why they call Kirby Jonas the new Louis L'Amour. But I wish L'Amour had written more in the style of Kirby Jonas. There sure would be a lot more great books to read instead of a lot that were rushed out a little too fast!
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Title: Catlow by Louis L'Amour ISBN: 0553247670 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: The Broken Gun by LOUIS L'AMOUR ISBN: 0553248472 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Last Stand at Papago Wells by Louis L'Amour ISBN: 0553258079 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1986 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: The Tall Stranger by Louis L'Amour ISBN: 055328102X Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1986 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: Brionne by LOUIS L'AMOUR ISBN: 0553281070 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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