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A review by hodges_wt
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
1.0
Well, this is a classic of the Western genre. Without it, we wouldn't have Lonesome Dove, or the Searchers, or any other western book dear to my heart.
We wouldn't have 3:10 to Yuma, and we wouldn't have The Magnificent Seven. (On that last one, I guess I'd have to settle for Seven Samurai).
Without this book, I would have been a much happier camper.
I DNFd this book somewhere around 15 or 20%, I don't even remember.
I feel like I could have written better dialogue and prose when I was twelve. There's just too much sage, and too much dialogue that sounds like something out of a kid's TV show.
For a classic western, I expected more. Sorry, Zane Grey, maybe you should have stayed a dentist. Or maybe I just shouldn't have read your book.
We wouldn't have 3:10 to Yuma, and we wouldn't have The Magnificent Seven. (On that last one, I guess I'd have to settle for Seven Samurai).
Without this book, I would have been a much happier camper.
I DNFd this book somewhere around 15 or 20%, I don't even remember.
I feel like I could have written better dialogue and prose when I was twelve. There's just too much sage, and too much dialogue that sounds like something out of a kid's TV show.
For a classic western, I expected more. Sorry, Zane Grey, maybe you should have stayed a dentist. Or maybe I just shouldn't have read your book.