6/23/2023 0 Comments The Thicket by Joe R. LansdaleHis parents have just succumbed to the smallpox epidemic sweeping turn-of-the-century East Texas–orphaning him and his younger sister, Lula. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old. Jack Parker thought he’d already seen his fair share of tragedy. Once I’d turned that final page, I remembered every tiny reason why I loved Westerns. From the first paragraph, I knew I would love the novel. I went home, grabbed a copy, and just finally got around to reading it. For me, I know within the first page of a novel or the opening minutes of a movie if I’m going to like it or not.Īt WorldCon in 2013, Joe Lansdale showed me his new novel, THE THICKET ( Amazon). But really, finding good Westerns is tough sledding these days. I count NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN in that camp. From there came Tombstone and Unforgiven, and I realized how much I loved a darker Western story. I watched John Wayne movies and loved every last one of them. I loved the sense of adventure and the roughness of the world L’Amour’s characters inhabited. Louis L’Amour was my go-to author for the longest time. Before that? Who knows? See, I grew up on Westerns. I’m not entirely sure when I last read a Western.
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