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message 1: by Rose (new)

Rose W | 367 comments Are there any Westerns on the list? I am looking for a Western for a reading challenge I am doing and might as well do one that is on the 1001 list - if there is one....


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Sean (fordest) | 988 comments Mod
The two that come to mind are

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
and
All the Pretty Horses

I thought of The Last of the Mohicans but it's a stretch....


message 3: by Bryan--The Bee’s Knees (last edited Jan 09, 2020 08:44AM) (new)

Bryan--The Bee’s Knees (theindefatigablebertmcguinn) | 629 comments A couple of ideas, but I think they are also a stretch:

Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon. Knowing Pynchon, though, this will not be conventional

Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks. About John Brown the abolitionist.

I thought The True History of the Kelley Gang was on the list, but I guess I'm mistaken--that's an Australian western.

Not much to choose from, it doesn't look like. There should by at least one conventional western on the list somewhere--Blood Meridian is an extremely brutal book. I think it's a great book, but it's not something you sit down to for a relaxing afternoon. If I had any say in the matter, True Grit would be on the list. I thought it was vastly entertaining, and literary as well.


message 4: by Rose (new)

Rose W | 367 comments Thanks all!


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