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Summary: Not a very interesting book to read.
Review: March Thirteenth, 2004 This is the first book, that i have read by Louis L'Amour, and to be frank, i was rather disappointed after i finished it. Sure it is a good plot, but... . The main story is that an American Indian escapes the Russian(KGB and GRU) interrogators, trecks over hundreds of miles of Russian taiga, meets and is helped by several Russians who are sympathetic to him and makes his escape. He is captured once , but escapes and would finally makes his way back home if the bloody book would have had a few more chapters to finish it(i would not want them, but it does need a better ending)!!
It took me about three weeks to finish this book, due to the fact, that you can't read more than twenty pages without falling sound asleep. The book had it's moments of thrill, which were few, but mostly ot was just Joe Mack killing poor animals and making shoes out of them. I would strongly advise anyone wanting to buy this book to reconsider.
Thank you for reading my review.
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Summary: L'Amour wrote more than just westerns
Review: Louis L'Amour is most well known for his westerns, but he also wrote in other genres. "Last of the Breed" is one of L'Amour's fiction novels that takes place in modern times. First published in 1986, the story takes place sometime in the 1980's. The story is about the escape of Major Joe Makatozi (also called Joe Mack) and his plight crossing Siberia. Shot down by the Russians while testing an experimental aircraft for the Air Force, Makatozi is thought to have useful information. After breaking out of a Siberian prison, he has to find warmer clothing, food, and weapons. Because Joe Mack is part Sioux, he was raised to be able to survive on the land if he had to. Makatozi befriends a few people and treks across Siberia, hoping to reach Alaska, with the Soviet Military close behind. "Last of the Breed" is considerably longer than most of Louis L'Amour's westerns. Although longer, I often found myself reading more than I intended to in one sitting. This book shows L'Amour is not limited to only westerns, but excels in other genres as well.
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Summary: One of my all time favourite books
Review: Louis L'Amour has never been one of my favourite authors because most of his books are Westerns but "Last of the Breed" is an exception to my rule simply because it isn't a Western. This is a brilliant novel that is both suspenseful and creative and it is a real shame that a sequel was never done. Set during the hostilities between the Soviet Union and the USA Joseph "Joe Mack" Makatozi is a man trapped in enemy territory. He is a downed test Pilot who has been captured by the Russians and is seemingly at their mercy in the inhospitable landscape called Siberia; the only inhabited cold Hell in existence. However Joe Mack isn't your ordinary test pilot. He is part Sioux and in his blood is the will to survive a savage land that was once home to his ancestors. He escapes his prison with the goal of crossing Siberia and making his way across the Bering Straits and into America, something that has not been done by modern man. Joe Mack finds himself slowly merging with the wilderness, forced to rely on his ancestral abilities to survive the killing cold and elude the constant danger of his determined Soviet pursuers, including a man who is to become his nemesis, a Siberian Native Yakut tracker called Alekhin who knows that in order to trap his quarry he must think and act like a Sioux. As we follow Joe Mack across the deadly landscape we become aware that he is changing, he is becoming what his ancestors once were thousands of years ago, trackers, hunters, killers, but ultimately survivors. It is a slow transformation, and along the way we watch him struggle to hold onto his humanity, finding love in the guise of a woman who helps him and a fragile but brief friendship with a crippled furrier but all the time he is in the cruel wilderness Joe Mack is changing into something that can never revert back to what it once was. He hungers for revenge against Alekhin and the jovial but brutal Soviet Commander who imprisoned him and the book ends on an eerie haunting note when the Soviet Commander receives the scalp of Alekhin and a gentle warning from the wilderness that he will be next... This is a truly magnificent book about a man's ability to transcend his environment and upbringing and descend into savagery in order to survive. Once you start reading this book you won't be able to put it down, this is no run of the mill pot boiler about the noble savage. There nothing remotely noble about Joe Mack, but you find yourself admiring him for his ability to survive against all the odds.
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Summary: Great yet sadly disappointing
Review: I've been a die hard reader of this man's westerns since I could read. Then when I inherited my great grandfather's collection of books I thought I was in heaven. While looking through all the titles I came across a few that I wondered about. They certainly weren't westerns but man they were good. This book was good from the get-go. Louis LaMour has a certain way of writing that makes you feel as though you're sitting down and listening to the story being told to you by Joe Mack. When I finished the story I was really... well upset. *SPOILER* Joe Mack didnt get the girl, you wait the whole story for Mack to fight Alehkin but is skipped over, he doesnt make back to the USA, and he doesnt kill his main rival. I believe Lamour was planning on writing a sequal to the story but never had a chance to finish it do to his untimly passing. Who knows? Maybe some avid writing like one of us Lamour lovers will write a sequal to the book... but hey, who can possibly write as good as him right?
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Summary: Last Of The Breed: Continuation of an Era!
Review: Last Of The Breed is one of L'Amour's best works, following in a long line of classics. It is an "Edge-Of-The-Seat" book that I've enjoyed reading over and over again. Situated in Russia, U.S. Air Force Major Joseph Makatozi ("Joe Mack") is flying one of many U.S. experimental aircraft with valuable data to the Russian authorities. This particular aircraft can stand extremely cold tempratures - ideal for Siberia. So, he is shot down, and this is a tale of his escape. I've read it over and over again, and it is always good to the last sentence.
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Summary: Boring....but funny (in a boring kind of way)
Review: I read most of this wet towel while in a tent, snowbound, while climbing Denali. Even under those circumstances, where your shirt labels make interesting reading, this book sucked. My partner and I took to making fun of it, it was so bad. I'd not read anything by L'amour before, and if this is indicative of his writing talent, I'm glad of it. I think you'd have to have about a 8th grade education to actually think this book is good. Not to insult 8th graders, but most adults have moved beyond crap like this (romance novel readers notwithstanding).
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Summary: Last of the breed PArt 1
Review: last of the breed was boring! It toke me two months just to read 2 chapters.I mean the book is just not my type i don't like it but, some people do, and i can't change it if they are crazy!People that like this book just can't wait to turn the page, and i can't just to finish the book.If you read this book, and like it God bless your soul!!!!!!! Nyga
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hamilton
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Summary: L'Amour wrote more than just westerns
Review: Louis L'Amour is most well known for his westerns, but he also wrote in other genres. "Last of the Breed" is one of L'Amour's fiction novels that takes place in modern times. First published in 1986, the story takes place sometime in the 1980's. The story is about the escape of Major Joe Makatozi (also called Joe Mack) and his plight crossing Siberia. Shot down by the Russians while testing an experimental aircraft for the Air Force, Makatozi is thought to have useful information. After breaking out of a Siberian prison, he has to find warmer clothing, food, and weapons. Because Joe Mack is part Sioux, he was raised to be able to survive on the land if he had to. Makatozi befriends a few people and treks across Siberia, hoping to reach Alaska, with the Soviet Military close behind. "Last of the Breed" is considerably longer than most of Louis L'Amour's westerns. Although longer, I often found myself reading more than I intended to in one sitting. This book shows L'Amour is not limited to only westerns, but excels in other genres as well.
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Summary: Some say "Sweeping Adventure"More like Sleeping Adventure!!
Review: Before reading this book, I had high hopes for it. It sounded good, lots of adventure, peril, danger and a likeable sounding main character. Though, as I go to read this book, I find adventure to be walking around in the snow, peril is siting up in a tree, danger was a weird guy stalking the main character, amd the main character so laughably fake and unbeleivable that I knew from the first couple of pages that this book was HORRIBLE. To top it all off, the ending is so bad that I wondered why I even bothered to finish all 367 pages of pure boredom. I actualy fell alsleep reading this! Pleas DO NOT buy this book [If you can call it that!]there are so many other good books to buy... and they are not this one.
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Summary: Last of the Breed
Review: This book is excellent picking for all Louis L'Amour fans and western/adventure book lovers. You got to get this one.
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