Riders of the Purple Sage (Modern Library Classics)
by Zane Grey

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Book Review: A classic?
Summary: 2 Stars

Basically, it's this: the good guys are Venters and Lassiter, two practically superhuman cowboys who can do anything--head off a stampede with a blind horse, take 5 bullets and still be able to walk all day, and shoot a man from a horse on the dead run, while on a running horse himself.

The bad guys fall into two groups. The Mormons, the evil, black-hearted women stealers, polygamists every one (though the heroine's father seems not to have been one, though he was a Mormon leader), and the cattle rustlers, who are bad, but not as bad as the Mormons, because the rustlers are "honest thieves."

The action is pretty dull, the romance is nothing short of corny, and each page is dripping with sappy descriptions of landscape. In short, be forewarned. If you want to read this book, fine, but be prepared for Grey to spend more time developing the color of the sage than developing all the characters combined. There are much better Westerns out there.

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• Genre Fiction > Westerns