tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170063012983448257.post5847146292651000516..comments2023-11-03T04:36:44.761-07:00Comments on The Restless Kind: FFB: Down the Long Hills by Louis L'amourIrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18078694505194875348noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170063012983448257.post-46286420433707064602011-01-08T18:46:30.041-08:002011-01-08T18:46:30.041-08:00L'Amour wrote entertainment and almost always ...L'Amour wrote entertainment and almost always included a little philosophy and some history. As for the complaints of the "literary" set ... L'Amour wrote about an era that was chauvenistic, right wing, and racist and to be acurate should be all those things.<br />Besides, we are STILL all of those things, we're just not as bad as we used to be.<br />As for "literary purity", if it isn't entertaining people are going to quit reading then it won't matter how literary it is.<br />If I find on re-reading one of my own stories that it isn't,first and foremost, entertaining I junk it until I can make it entertaining at a later date.<br />Dave<br />www.dmmcgowan.blogspot.comD.M. McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05008773391981989236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170063012983448257.post-85819885008147796112011-01-07T13:43:31.733-08:002011-01-07T13:43:31.733-08:00Can't go wrong with old Louie.Can't go wrong with old Louie.Evan Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07620731784654779358noreply@blogger.com