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- Subject: Re: Good Westerns
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 10:24:25 GMT
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- In article <1ha270INNdai@agate.berkeley.edu>, chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:
- >After seeing "Unforgiven", a friend asked for some good western
- >( pulp or non-pulp.. ) reccomendations. Can anyone help me out?
- >
- >Chua
- >+==+
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- Chua, partly as a way to echo all the praise that Cormac McCarthy has
- been getting here of late (and well deserved praise it is), I'd like to
- recommend *Blood Meridian* as a Western. If your friend enjoyed the
- squinting mordant acidity of *Unforgiven*, this novel should prove
- congenial, though friendly it ain't.
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- By the way, Henry James often uses "ain't" in his books, so I don't wanta
- see no flames on this score.
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- michael mcdonald
-