The Shootist

This book contained some of the best writing I've ever read, and the first eighty pages were just perfect. But the tension fell away slightly in the second half, and the ending, while incredibly clever, was just a bit too brutal for my tastes. A great book, though, perfect for fans of Larry McMurtry......more

John Bernard Books has found out he has terminal prostate cancer. Books is an aging but notorious gunman, who is known across the frontier for being dangerously quick on the draw, for loving women, and for killing over thirty men. So it comes to his dismay that he is destined to die an undignified an......more

Decades ago, I saw the John Wayne movie of the same name & really liked it, so thought the audio book would be decent. It wasn't, it was freaking awesome! Horrible, depressing, awfully realistic, & yet somehow inspiring. If you saw the movie, know that you saw a cleaned up, pale Hollywood version. M......more

Final Gunfight Anyone familiar with the western movie legend, John Wayne, has probably seen his final film. The movie was about an aging gunfighter who was dying from cancer. Wayne himself found the movie to be a tad prophetic, since he was dying and very sick from cancer at the time of its filming. T......more

Cruel, powerful and elegiac novel by Glendon Swarthout. This one is a real classic. Don't miss it.......more