Book Recommendations

[feudist]

I sport read a lot of fiction, primarily Westerns at this point as there are so many authors in the rather formulaic genre.

I recently stumbled onto two authors that I'm enjoying - Charles G. West and James Reasoner. Both have series that I'm currently making my way through, I consider them a notch above Dusty Richards and several notches above Louis L'Amour and William Johnstone.

I also have enjoyed finding and reading the Flying U stories by Bertha Buzzy (B.M.) Bowers who wrote the first in the series, Chip of the Flying U, in 1901. Interesting style and sentiment.

Try Alan LeMay.
He wrote The Searchers and The Unforgiven. While the movie adaptation of The Searchers is a classic, it suffers from hollywoodizing and oversimplifying the protagonist's hatred of the Comanche.
The Unforgiven movie ridiculously cast 31 year old Audrey Hepburn as a 16 year old Texas ranch girl...
Both novels are very authentic portrayals of the waking nightmare of the outer Texas frontier subjected to Comanche raiding in the 1860s.

[DDTSGM]

Try Alan LeMay.
He wrote The Searchers and The Unforgiven. While the movie adaptation of The Searchers is a classic, it suffers from hollywoodizing and oversimplifying the protagonist's hatred of the Comanche.
The Unforgiven movie ridiculously cast 31 year old Audrey Hepburn as a 16 year old Texas ranch girl...
Both novels are very authentic portrayals of the waking nightmare of the outer Texas frontier subjected to Comanche raiding in the 1860s.

Well the library doesn't have anything by him, so I'll give some used places a shot. Looks like he also wrote seven or eight other westerns.

Ordered The Searchers and Winter Range, Amazon loves you.

[feudist]

The Suicide Motor Club, Christopher Buehlman. Horror.

Tight little novel about a pack of vampires that hunt along Highway 66 in the 1960s.
These are not romantic, tortured, Chippendale vampires but inhuman, vicious serial killers with a specialty in causing traffic accidents on lonely roads and feeding off the victims. There are some stomach churning situations and a particularly loathsome human servant(their "daybitch"). The story follows a grieving woman whose husband and child are murdered and who saw the vampires for what they are. She is contacted by a man who coordinates a motley group of men who are also victims of vampire predation. Offered a chance at revenge, she learns the very shaky, largely theoretical and unproven methods of killing the undead. They amount to virtual suicide, and hope is definitely a part of the plan...as is faith.

I like Vampire lore and this book delves into the nitty gritty of how they survive, how they are hunted and the extreme measures of secrecy that the hunters must use.The religious aspect is given a little more thought than the usual crosses and holy water treatment.

Grim, verging on Grimdark.

[Coyotesfan97]

The Suicide Motor Club, Christopher Buehlman. Horror.

Tight little novel about a pack of vampires that hunt along Highway 66 in the 1960s.
These are not romantic, tortured, Chippendale vampires but inhuman, vicious serial killers with a specialty in causing traffic accidents on lonely roads and feeding off the victims. There are some stomach churning situations and a particularly loathsome human servant(their "daybitch"). The story follows a grieving woman whose husband and child are murdered and who saw the vampires for what they are. She is contacted by a man who coordinates a motley group of men who are also victims of vampire predation. Offered a chance at revenge, she learns the very shaky, largely theoretical and unproven methods of killing the undead. They amount to virtual suicide, and hope is definitely a part of the plan...as is faith.

I like Vampire lore and this book delves into the nitty gritty of how they survive, how they are hunted and the extreme measures of secrecy that the hunters must use.The religious aspect is given a little more thought than the usual crosses and holy water treatment.

Grim, verging on Grimdark.

I just bought it. It reminds of the movie Near Dark.

[DDTSGM]

Try Alan LeMay.
He wrote The Searchers and The Unforgiven.

Both novels are very authentic portrayals of the waking nightmare of the outer Texas frontier subjected to Comanche raiding in the 1860s.

Just finished The Searchers and you certainly nailed the description.

[blues]

Just finished The Searchers and you certainly nailed the description.

The Comanche were hell on wheels hooves.

[Coyotesfan97]

The Suicide Motor Club, Christopher Buehlman. Horror.

Tight little novel about a pack of vampires that hunt along Highway 66 in the 1960s.
These are not romantic, tortured, Chippendale vampires but inhuman, vicious serial killers with a specialty in causing traffic accidents on lonely roads and feeding off the victims. There are some stomach churning situations and a particularly loathsome human servant(their "daybitch"). The story follows a grieving woman whose husband and child are murdered and who saw the vampires for what they are. She is contacted by a man who coordinates a motley group of men who are also victims of vampire predation. Offered a chance at revenge, she learns the very shaky, largely theoretical and unproven methods of killing the undead. They amount to virtual suicide, and hope is definitely a part of the plan...as is faith.

I like Vampire lore and this book delves into the nitty gritty of how they survive, how they are hunted and the extreme measures of secrecy that the hunters must use.The religious aspect is given a little more thought than the usual crosses and holy water treatment.

Grim, verging on Grimdark.

Okay I bought it last night. I’m almost done probably a quarter to go. It’s a great read so far.

These aren’t sparkly vampires. These are MHI vamps but the hunters aren’t MHI. One section covers their hunts. It’s violent and dark.

The “day bitch” is one sick dude.

Recommended.