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Summary: A decent read, but a bit monochromatic
Review: A typical L'Amour book - a dashing, trustworthy protagonist, just trying to live in peace but able to defend himself if and when necessary. Jubal Sackett is loved and trusted by all except the villains, who themselves have absolutely no redeeming qualities at all. In other words, the characters are very flat and monochromatic, and as a result, they come across as very artificial.One thing you have to hand to L'Amour, though - he writes book easily read in an evening.
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Summary: One of Lamour's better books
Review: I have yet to read many of his books, but I must say that all of Lamour's books are great. Jubal Sackett is a special character. I appreciate that Lamour spent more time on this book (or at least made it longer than usual) in order to give us a full scope of Jubal's transcending years in his migration to the west. The Sacketts are successful because they are well learned in many a trade and they don't take things for granted. They nurture their friendships when they can and comfront their enemies just as readily. You feel this story, you root for the characters and you feel as though you are among them. I guess this is more of a mountain man book than a western, but it still sets the setting for the Sackett's pushing west. A great book.
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Summary: One of my favorite of the Sackett Series.
Review: I read this 3 years ago and I still remember how great it was. The way L'Amour describes the landscape in details and makes his characters so likeable. One reason I love this book is the way he talks about freedom in the west. Everything was so new to Jubal and he had such a respect for the land and the Indians. I am still reading the Sackett series and this one stands out as one of the great ones. A great place to start the series and then work your way back.
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Summary: Whirlwind of Words
Review: Jubal Sackett was always one of my top 5 favorite books because of it's humanly unimaginable whirlwind of words that puts you the closest to actually being there. I read the detailed 341 page book in only three days and after it was finished I felt as if I had just learned to speak a new language. It seems to be a sketch with words used as lines and the final picture is simply a detailed masterpiece of understanding human behavior.
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Summary: Thrilling listening -- a "must" for all Louis L'Amour fans.
Review: The unabridged presentation of Louis L'Amour's Jubal Sackett will thrill listeners of Westerns: a wilderness explorer crosses a savage continent to become a legend among Indian tribes as a powerful medicine man. The story has many involving twists and turns.
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Summary: great audio book
Review: This by far is the best audio book Ive listened to. The guy reading the story has an accent that fits the story perfectly. While this is a lengthy book it is never boring
The pacing is perfect and the story itself is riviting.
Do yourself a favor and get this on audio. You will not be dissappionted
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Summary: The Best
Review: This is the greatest novel I have ever read(and reread and reread and ...). Louis is arguably the best Western novelist there is. Of his works the Sackett stories have always been my favorites. Of these I love the first books. I can get more into the early frontiersmen books than any others. Just like cowboys of today feel they "should've been born a hundred years ago". I can imagine the cowboys of a hundred years ago felt the same. To be the first white man to see a new land, a land empty of anything but its native inhabitants. Some of which are friendly some of which are definitly not. To explore these unknown places for the first time would be an enormous priviledge from God. That is what this book is all about. I can not count the number of times I have read it and I enjoy it just as much every time. This is quite possibly my favorite book of all time. Any one who has not read this book is missing a great adventure sure to keep you pulling this book off the shelf over and over.
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Summary: Fascinating tale of adventure
Review: This is the story of a young man who is sent Westward by his father to find a new home in the valley of the river named The Tennessee. Jubal travels by foot and is tracked by a Native American early in his journey. They become friends and decide to travel together. Through their growing friendship the reader learns of traditions and beliefs of a variety of tribes. The narrative, written in first person, often has a poetic lilt that reminds me of "Evangeline." "Endlessly wound the river along its timbered banks, brushing the roots of leaning trees, heavy with foliage. Dead trees, uprooted far upstream, were a danger to birchbark canoes, and at no time dared we to relax. Around each bend, and the twists and turns were many, might lie enemy Indians or some obstruction to rip our bottom out." Native customs enrich the narrative. Describing Jubal's attempts to communicate with members of another tribe, L'Amour writes, "We had fumbled together a way of speaking. We knew some Cherokee...although Indians who knew the language of another tribe were rare..." L'Amour's love of classical literature and books seeps into his writing like a vein of mineable golden prose, saturating it with abundant information on a myriad of subjects. It makes the history he writes far more interesting than it might have otherwise been.
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Summary: Jubal Sackett
Review: We have the paperback in our home. It is one of the best books about the frontier, that I do like. It has alot of action and you are always wondering what will happen next. Mr. L'Amour made the characters so real. You feel as though you are with them and It does help to know the family history of the Sacketts.
I didn't grow up reading his books, but I'm glad to say that my kids love them as much as my husband and I do.
Thanks for keeping them coming.
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Summary: Fantastic book!
Review: Wow! I really enjoyed this book. The character of Jubal Sackett was very well developed and set in a historically correct period. I found myself walking in his footsteps as he went further and further west. The story arouses the explorer instinct in all of us. I intend to read more of the Sackett sagas.
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