The Lonesome Gods (1983)
“And she's busy, workin' around, but listening. I tell you, Hannes, within the next three months that woman knows more about what's happenin' in California than anybody!
"Stearns isn't hurting for money, she's an attractive woman, so he doesn't dun her. When she's in business for about six months, she's been in Los Angeles about a year, you understand, then her ship comes in.
"I mean that ship comes back from China and she has sold those otter skins to the Chinese for ten times what she paid for them. She pays off Stearns and she's free an' clear with money to work with.
"So she stocks her bookstore, orders more books, papers, and such, and then goes up and down the coast, me helping, buying otter skins, cowhides, anything she can sell.
"She goes out to remote ranches which have a time gettin' hides down to the shore where they can be sold to the ships. She buys cheap.
"She lives like she always did, goes about her business with a friendly smile and a kind of wide-eyed innocence. She o...wns her bookstore building, she owns another building close by, she owns a small ranch, some horses and cattle, and she operates her bookstore like it was a bank.MoreLess
"Stearns isn't hurting for money, she's an attractive woman, so he doesn't dun her. When she's in business for about six months, she's been in Los Angeles about a year, you understand, then her ship comes in.
"I mean that ship comes back from China and she has sold those otter skins to the Chinese for ten times what she paid for them. She pays off Stearns and she's free an' clear with money to work with.
"So she stocks her bookstore, orders more books, papers, and such, and then goes up and down the coast, me helping, buying otter skins, cowhides, anything she can sell.
"She goes out to remote ranches which have a time gettin' hides down to the shore where they can be sold to the ships. She buys cheap.
"She lives like she always did, goes about her business with a friendly smile and a kind of wide-eyed innocence. She o...wns her bookstore building, she owns another building close by, she owns a small ranch, some horses and cattle, and she operates her bookstore like it was a bank.MoreLess
Guest 8 months ago
If I read "rhe old times are changing: once more I'll have myself committed. Lamour gets VERY boring when he goes into "historical crap having his illiterate characters give destailed histories of partciular periods of hundreds of years before , citing exact dates that copud never have been known by the most intelligent illiterate.Another rubbishy piece od pseudo philosophy is all his characters discover a very ancient alost invisible trail whenbeing hunted down for death. Instead of the guy making haste and gettintas far a way as possible he begins "philosophixing, about "The OLd ONes" who must have mde this trail and whe theyn may have been and why they there there, and where they vanished to, then proceeding with the pseud history of those who followed them and likely pushed them out,all this whilst supposedly trying to escape a horrible death from pursuers.
I often turn over pages and pages of this craps to try to fins some actual action. So I miss bits and pieces here and there. Makes little difference the story ends with happy lovers .
Not one single Lamour piece of crap is without one or more vicious fights between two unequally matched men of whom the lesser ALways wins in the end. They are tiresomely the same even to every blow by blow. He must have a script of one fight and repeats it over and over.
We are spared nothing. Like Mark Twain's criticism of Fenimore Cooper, his hero never ceases to find that little round pebble to step on at a crucial fight point. One could state with confidence that without that pebble there is NO fight.
So we hate all pebbles.
Guest 8 months ago
when the hero begins to wonder, "if I would be better out in the waterless desert than here having plenty to eat and drink, THAT"s the time to condemn Lamour's books to the fire.After going through this crap trying to find an "unphilosophical" story, I'll never look at another Lamour book-ever.
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