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| wychic |
Original Post: Jun 03 '07, 11:59 pm |
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Western Challenge
I don't think it has escaped attention that this board is pretty much dead. D-E-D. Dead. So, seeing in the other post here how few have even read a Western, I propose a challenge. This month (or next month, or the month after, whenever there's time) I challenge the fine people of Epinions to read one Western. We'll make it fiction, since that's what most people think when they see "Western", then report back to the rest of us on the book you chose and what you thought of it. Yes, I will participate in this myself as it is a genre I have sadly neglected and there are so many good Western books already in the database with no reviews. Anyone willing to give it a try? |
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| jsgoddess |
Posted: Jun 04 '07, 6:15 am |
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RE: Western Challenge
Quote: wychic Anyone willing to give it a try?
I'm one of the few who already reads westerns, though it's been a while since I picked one up. I'll join in.
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| scmrak |
Posted: Jun 04 '07, 12:46 pm (Updated: Jun 04 '07, 12:50 pm) |
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RE: Western Challenge
Quote: wychic Anyone willing to give it a try? Depends on how broad your definition of "Western." I'd read an Annie Proulx or Brad Smith book that takes place west of the 100th parallel, but I'm just not that into Zane Grey and his cohorts.
On the western mystery front... Heard an innarestin' interview with Craig Johnson (from Ucross, on the Sheridan-Johnson county line) on the radio a coupla weeks ago, he writes mysteries; there's also C. J. Box and Peter Bowen (neither of whom I much like) and then J. A. Jance down in Arizona.
I could always re-read Cimmaron, though even Oklahomans are confused about whether they're western or southern...
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Edited to add... I may be the only other person reading this whose ever been in Powell (and Greybull and Lovell and Thermopolis and Meeteetse and Worland and Cody and Lander and Hudson and...) |
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| pearannoyed |
Posted: Jun 04 '07, 2:38 pm |
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RE: Western Challenge
Quote: scmrak I could always re-read Cimmaron, though even Oklahomans are confused about whether they're western or southern...
Northern. Oklahomans are definitely northern. For me anyway.
I think of states with ranches as western, and states with plantations as southern. That makes TX and OK definitely in the western category for me. TX and/or OK may have had a few plantations in their day, but they're mostly known for cows, not cotton. |
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| sleeper54 |
Posted: Jun 04 '07, 5:12 pm |
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RE: Western Challenge
Quote: wychic I don't think it has escaped attention that this board is pretty much dead. D-E-D. Dead. So, seeing in the other post here how few have even read a Western, I propose a challenge. This month (or next month, or the month after, whenever there's time) I challenge the fine people of Epinions to read one Western. We'll make it fiction, since that's what most people think when they see "Western", then report back to the rest of us on the book you chose and what you thought of it. Yes, I will participate in this myself as it is a genre I have sadly neglected and there are so many good Western books already in the database with no reviews. Anyone willing to give it a try?
I am in.
But gussy it up, make a write-off of it. Challenge the other Eps members out there to join in.
E-mail me if you want a link or advice on making it so.
...tom...
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| wychic |
Posted: Jun 04 '07, 8:43 pm |
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RE: Western Challenge
Quote: scmrak
Edited to add... I may be the only other person reading this whose ever been in Powell (and Greybull and Lovell and Thermopolis and Meeteetse and Worland and Cody and Lander and Hudson and...)
Very possible...a lot of people go through here, but I have to wonder how many even remember the name of the place.
Personally, I have a pretty broad definition of Westerns, if it can fit nicely on this board we'll call it a Western :D.
Hmmm...a write-off could be fun, but I've never even participated in anyone else's, much less started my own, so absolutely no idea what that would entail.
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| scmrak |
Posted: Jun 05 '07, 6:41 am |
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RE: Western Challenge
Quote: pearannoyed TX and/or OK may have had a few plantations in their day, but they're mostly known for cows, not cotton. You gotta get out on the highways more, Pear. Texas grows about a third of the USA's cotton output. That's why it looks like it's been snowing along I-20 every August, even though the ambient temperature is in the upper 90s...
East Texas is clearly southern, as is the Gulf Coast. It starts getting western somewhere around the Pecos River, and the people in the middle are perpetually confused (more drugstore cowboys live in that part of the state than the rest of the country combined). Speaking of confusion, when I lived in Oklahoma my power bill came from Midwest Electric and my phone bill from Southwest Bell.
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