A year? What is a year? All time is relative. One day may be a lifetime, a year can be forever. It is not the number of days, but what goes into those days. —Louis L’Amour, The Warrior’s Path.
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Fantasy from A to Z: E is for Epic
What is the ideal length of a fantasy novel? Of a fantasy series? Fantasy, as a genre, is known for being big. Big stakes, big emotions, big battles—and big books. It isn’t unusual for a single fantasy novel to run well over 200,000 words. Authors like Brandon Sanderson regularly turn in doorstoppers, with Words of… Continue reading Fantasy from A to Z: E is for Epic
1001 Parsecs Books: Last of the Breed by Louis L’Amour
Hey! Go check out my review on 1001 Parsecs Books of Last of the Breed by Louis L’Amour, which I think is one of his best books!
“It is man’s destiny, I think…”
We need such men, lad, men who can look to the beyond, to ever strive for something out there beyond the stars. It is man’s destiny, I think, to go forward, ever forward. Louis L’Amour, The Warrior’s Path
“A land needs people to nurse its flesh…”
How lonely were those silent hills! How reaching out for the sounds of men, for I believe a land needs people to nurse its flesh and bring from it the goodness of crops.” Louis L’Amour, The Warrior’s Path.
Sackett’s Land by Louis L’Amour
I first heard about Louis L’Amour’s Sackett series from a hiking buddy, and I’ve wanted to read them ever since. This is the first one, and it takes place in the late 1600s with the ancestor of the Sackett clan, Barnabas Sackett, as he discovers the untamed wilds of America while on the run from… Continue reading Sackett’s Land by Louis L’Amour
Plans for My Personal Home Library
If everyone has a weird or quirky super power, mine is the ability to acquire books. Even when I was living out of a suitcase in a remote Caucasian village, or traipsing across the Middle East, I was constantly acquiring books. With my marriage to Future Mrs. Vasicek coming up, I’ve decided to put this… Continue reading Plans for My Personal Home Library