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   From: laro@idworld.net   
      
   "Sionnach"  wrote in message   
   news:bvr0hp$vvj5r$1@ID-45033.news.uni-berlin.de...   
   >   
   > >  I find Elmer Kelton a good writer, but there are several other   
   > > regulars in the genre.   
   >   
   >   Elmer Kelton is *excellent*. Personally, I think of him as a good   
   novelist   
   > who writes books set in the Old West, not as a writer of "Westerns". :-)   
   > Among other things, I've found his books to be far more historically   
   > accurate than the typical written-for-the-genre ones.   
      
   Well, if you're looking for an argument, you've come to the WRONG Place with   
   that! :-)   I also think Elmer is an excellent writer, he can do more with   
   dialog and can develop a character better than most writers today, even if   
   he does work primarily with western settings.   Of course, I learned some   
   time ago that he seems to be two people.  He writes books like The Man Who   
   Rode Midnight, the Good Old Boys, The Time it Never...etc. etc. which are   
   wonderful literature, great reading, and when reading them, I can almost   
   hear voices from my own family long gone from this world.   I really like   
   these and others in that line which he's written.   
      
   But he also writes what I consider to be "westerns."   You know, the other   
   stuff!   They have good guys and bad ones, Indians and bandits, I guess all   
   that stuff.   
      
   I heard him say once that way back when he was writing for the newspaper   
   there in Angelo, one of the folks he was interviewing mentioned his work,   
   saying some thing like "did you know there is a feller with your name   
   writing novels?"   He smiled and nodded, but never admitted anything.   
      
   >   And on the subject of Zane Grey: it's worth pointing out that quite a   
   few   
   > of his books were contemporary, or nearly so, at the time they were   
   written   
   > (between 1910 and 1939)- I remember reading several in which people drove   
   > automobiles.   
      
   Yeah, I feel like Zane Grey is the source of my original love for reading.   
   I guess I learned from him what I now tell youngsters I talk to, that   
   "reading is a very economical and fast way to travel ... just grab a book   
   and settle into a chair and GO GO GO!"   
      
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