tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post3505269893008270025..comments2024-03-29T09:49:41.273-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Forgotten Books: Trail of the Hunter -- Dudley Dean (Dudley Dean McGaughey)James Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-53081622428803336972009-10-10T12:23:56.867-05:002009-10-10T12:23:56.867-05:00Jun,
I've read a lot of Zane Grey and Louis L...Jun,<br /><br />I've read a lot of Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour novels and enjoyed most of them, but I wouldn't rank either of them in my favorites. Some of L'Amour's best books, in my opinion, are TO TAME A LAND, FLINT, and HIGH LONESOME. A good Zane Grey novel is NEVADA. Grey, like Max Brand, is very old-fashioned in his prose most of the time, so you have to be in the right mood to read his work.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-38270657219775470892009-10-10T02:35:32.534-05:002009-10-10T02:35:32.534-05:00James,
I noticed you did not recommend any Grey or...James,<br />I noticed you did not recommend any Grey or Lamour?<br />I have not read any of them but just curious whynot those 2/<br />Thanks.<br /><br />JunAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-32714088219036545562009-10-08T12:16:33.483-05:002009-10-08T12:16:33.483-05:00Jun,
In addition to Westerns by Dudley Dean/Dean ...Jun,<br /><br />In addition to Westerns by Dudley Dean/Dean Owen, you might try Ed Gorman, Luke Short, Lewis B. Patten, and H.A. De Rosso. That's just scratching the surface, though. There are a lot of good hardboiled Western writers.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-43477126721718495232009-10-07T23:22:43.865-05:002009-10-07T23:22:43.865-05:00hi james,
i am now in a "western" mood.o...hi james,<br />i am now in a "western" mood.over the past several weeks, iread 3 elore leonard's western -valdez is coming, law at randado & escape from 5 shadows. add to that anotherwestern that i can't remember right now.<br /><br />what would you recommend for weekend reading in the western genre?<br />thanks<br /><br />junAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-91756954335770314082009-10-05T06:18:09.181-05:002009-10-05T06:18:09.181-05:00Opinion seconded. Everything I've read from Du...Opinion seconded. Everything I've read from Dudley Dean has been good, or even excellent. I can recommend THE OUTLAWS (1973, this was very good), GUNS TO THE SUNSET (1948) and AMBUSH AT RINCON/THE RINCON TRAP (1953/1966). <br /><br />Dean has at least one trunk crime novel. If you check out the Mystery*File link that Chap mentions, there's some discussion over a book that was published in Finnish as KUUMA LINJA/HOT LINE. It wasn't published in English. Someone who's good at these kinds of things might want to dig up the manuscript and publish it. As I recall, it was pretty good. But digging up a long-lost manuscript of a forgotten author might turn up nothing. Then again, you have the case of those recently unearthed Harry Whittington sex novels and what not.Jurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021010310386744591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-66315885353389059572009-10-04T12:19:37.348-05:002009-10-04T12:19:37.348-05:00Thanks for the explanation, James, on trunk books....Thanks for the explanation, James, on trunk books. Makes sense.<br /><br />EdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-82416852385316105522009-10-04T12:02:27.626-05:002009-10-04T12:02:27.626-05:00Thanks too to Chap for the URL. Interesting (to me...Thanks too to Chap for the URL. Interesting (to me at least) too to see that as Dean Owen, Dean wrote novelizations of KONGA and REPTILICUS, rights to which Charlton Comics got in it's own half-hearted monster comics attempt --comics that are now somewhat collectible as they contain art by Steve Ditko.Richard Proschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08314680709014254183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-34925885572579848062009-10-04T11:58:47.794-05:002009-10-04T11:58:47.794-05:00Thanks for the post, James. I do believe I've ...Thanks for the post, James. I do believe I've learned about more new (old) Western paperbacks from you than any where else. Great stuff!Richard Proschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08314680709014254183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-32527504225573945302009-10-03T12:01:55.534-05:002009-10-03T12:01:55.534-05:00Cap'n,
My writing is rolling along, it's ...Cap'n,<br /><br />My writing is rolling along, it's just hard to discuss it very much when I can't reveal what I'm working on, which is most of the time. I can say, though, that I'm trying to wrap up a book manuscript this weekend, and if I do, I'll take Monday off, go to the library and run some other errands, then start the next book Tuesday. In spare moments, I've also been working on a couple of short stories. Those I can talk about when the proper time comes.<br /><br />Ed,<br /><br />A trunk book is one that an author wrote but was unable to sell, leading them to put the manuscript away in a trunk (figuratively speaking). Sometimes they eventually see the light of day, and sometimes they don't. I had an editor call me one time and say, "I had an unexpected hole come up in the schedule and I need a book now. Do you have a trunk book I can use?" Unfortunately, I didn't, since I have only a couple of trunk books, and neither of them was the right genre.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-32400134861308275012009-10-03T11:37:08.874-05:002009-10-03T11:37:08.874-05:00I googled "trunk book" and didn't fi...I googled "trunk book" and didn't find anything. Without a lot of explaining for slowpokes like me, do you mean the series didn't get picked up until Leisure published it? I'll check out the bibliography at Steve's Mystery*File.<br /><br />Ed LynskeyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-53671726841561863242009-10-03T00:02:57.403-05:002009-10-03T00:02:57.403-05:00Not than I'm complaining, because I love your ...Not than I'm complaining, because I love your blog and read it faithfully, but I got to wondering about your writing progress. It used to be a staple of your blog but I don't recall reading about it for a spell. Have you abandoned it in favor of reviews? Not, as I said, am I complaining. Just curious.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-86278126231361351392009-10-02T17:45:31.663-05:002009-10-02T17:45:31.663-05:00Dudley Dean is one of my favorites, too, and I wis...Dudley Dean is one of my favorites, too, and I wish I had more of his books. If anyone wants to follow up on this writer I'd suggest starting here:<br />http://www.mysteryfile.com/DOwen/Bibliography.html<br />James is too modest to mention his own input to this comprehensive survey, which will also give John some more info on the Hawk books.Chap O'Keefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04404176810063857291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-36242360244000813672009-10-02T16:41:47.338-05:002009-10-02T16:41:47.338-05:00Didn't Dean write the 'Hawk' series of...Didn't Dean write the 'Hawk' series of Edge-style violent westerns back in the 70's?<br />Anybody know if those were any good?<br /><br />John HockingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-56260624280061614392009-10-02T11:40:43.699-05:002009-10-02T11:40:43.699-05:00Sounds like a good one, James. That "mean eno...Sounds like a good one, James. That "mean enough to braid his own hang rope" line is a keeper.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284832038989114035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-60226849753167987822009-10-02T09:51:20.792-05:002009-10-02T09:51:20.792-05:00Ed,
I think the Leisure edition of DIAMOND DEUCE ...Ed,<br /><br />I think the Leisure edition of DIAMOND DEUCE was the first edition, leading me to believe it was a trunk book. But I don't know that for sure. And of course a lot of trunk books should have sold the first time around but didn't for a variety of reasons, few of them having anything to do with quality.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-6893958099361382252009-10-02T09:42:58.417-05:002009-10-02T09:42:58.417-05:00Thanks for the review, James. New author to me. Ou...Thanks for the review, James. New author to me. Our library has one of DD's westerns, Diamond Deuce, reprinted (?) by Leisure in '04. I'll try it out next time I go there.<br /><br />Ed LynskeyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-13490699288196185702009-10-02T07:46:50.992-05:002009-10-02T07:46:50.992-05:00I like it that kind of opening too.I like it that kind of opening too.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com