Shane

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Summary: Plain but powerful
Review: There is good and there is evil in this world. The good must be vigilant or else the barbarians will rule. As America is becoming more barbarian every day, the Shanes of the country must awaken and fight the forces of darkness just as Shane and Starrett fought the Riker Brothers gang.

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Summary: A great morality tale for those who still believe in heroes
Review: This remains my favorite book, and I've read thousands, literally, over the years, including some pretty sophisticated stuff (I have an M.A. in American History from Columbia). I saw the movie when it first came out. I was a New York City area kid then, and I fell in love with the Tetons where it was filmed. I then bought the book and loved it. I was captured very early by the scene involving Shane and Joe Starrett and Ledyard, the phony salesman. When Ledyard asks Starrett how he can take the word of a stranger, Shane, Starrett responds: "I can figure men for myself. I'll take his word on anything he wants to say any day of God's whole year." I still get chills re-reading those words; I still strive to live so others might say that of me. Can there be any higher praise? So... read it, and give it to your kids. If you have brought them up right, Shane will become one of their heroes and perhaps they will "grow strong and straight" as Shane wishes for young Joey Starrett in the book.

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Summary: I hated it
Review: A very very poorly written book. I think that y'all shouldn't even bother picking it up because that is a waste of time in which you could be reading intelligently written books (ie. Dune). Y'all know what I mean.

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Summary: An Inspiration
Review: Shane is an inspiration to me. To those of you who are inspired by the heroic, I highly recommend this book. In Shane, Jack Schaefer portrays man as a clean, uplifted being who is capable of achieving great things.

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Summary: Awful!!!!!!
Review: If I could, I would give this book a negitive amount of stars, or at least zero! Most of the book was just people talking, and even there talk was boring. Definitly not worth your time.

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Summary: I hated it
Review: I had to read this book in language arts class in school, and it was so boring to me that I didn't even bother finishing it!

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Summary: Ramandeep lehal
Review: I read this book few months ago this a book about a guy who is atough guy he is hard worker and strong he never tells any body about himself he just say "call me shane". once he went to valley and he settle thier with Joe starret as a coworker than see what's next.....

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Summary: A dark, sad Western classic. . .
Review: The story centers much upon the failure of a man to control himself when fate and violence close in around him. It can be seen as an allegory of our times

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Summary: Classic Western
Review: Shane is one of the better westerns I've read. Good action scenes are a bit mangled by over description and western politics. The last action scene is fabulous as he rides off into the sunset.

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Summary: Powerful
Review: This is a brilliant psychological western about the true meaning of strength, integrity, and manhood. It's not just a shoot-'em-up; far from it, it is remarkably subtle for its genre. A great book for intelligent young adult males.