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Fiction

Orrex

(63,215 posts) Thu Apr 13, 2017, 08:47 AM Apr 2017

Last of the Plainsmen, to be specific.

Yikes. Some of that stuff does not age well.

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So I've started reading Zane Grey (Original Post) Orrex Apr 2017 OP

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1. That's for sure. I love westerns, but mostly western literary fiction, like Larry McMurtry's

Thu Apr 13, 2017, 08:06 PM

Apr 2017

stuff, Ivan Doig, Charles Portis, Cormac McCarthy.

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2. Fitzgerald made it a point of mentioning that Jay Gatsby (nee Gatz) read Zane Grey