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Summary: Todd Carson's book review of The Last of the Breed
Review: The begining of the book,"The Last of the Breed", was not really worth reading. Although when you get to about page twenty it starts getting good. It is more of an action book than a comedy or horor. It is a war like type of book. If you like action books this is the book for you. So all in all it is a very good book.
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Summary: A classic novel of escape into the wild
Review: Louis L'Armour is an author of rare quality. His words seem to flow straight from the heart of the wilderness. He can place his readers in the midst of heated gun-fight, or on the icy arctic tundra. He can describe a situation with skill that few authors have mastered. Out on the cold, desolate plains of Siberia there stood a boy, filled and surrounded by the incredible writing of a man who is close to the ways of the wild. This boy stood watching a Soiux warrior in his journey home. This boy was me. When I read Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amoure, I experienced a feeling I had never felt before. It was a feeling of lonliness, comfort, joy and sorrow. I could feel the cold that Major Joe Mack felt. I could feel his hunger as well as my own as I feverishly read through the last minutes of class before the bell rang for me to go to lunch. This is a book of capture and escape, a cat and mouse game between a man and his enemies. It has a quality about it that makes you want to keep reading, yet not want to know what imminent danger lies around the next rock, or hillside, or bend in the stream. I loved this book from beginning to end and have read several times as I hope you will too. If you enjoy the outdoors, suspense, survival, or if are just a Louis L'Amour fan, I highly suggest you give this book a try.
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Summary: Not typical Louis L'Amour
Review: The late Louis L'Amour wrote mostly Westerns--specifically about the 'Old West'--for which he is justly famous. I may have read them all, but I hope not. I hope there are a few more out there, somewhere. This book, however, is different. This is the kind of authentically detailed story that is his hallmark, but it is more modern. It is about U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, whose forbears were Sioux Indian. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in the USSR, he is captured, and no one but he and his captors know he is a prisoner. He escapes a prison camp, and is forced to survive the Siberian wilderness in an effort to make it to the Bering Strait, which he will have to cross to get back home. He is pursued relentlessly by a Yakut scout who knows the land intimately. Joe Mack must think like a Sioux to escape. Louis Dearborn L'Amour (originally Lamoore) lived the lives that he portrayed. He was a roustabout, merchant seaman, boxer, cowboy, logger, miner, and an army officer during WWII in tank destroyers. He was shipwrecked in the West Indies, sailed a dhow on the Red Sea, and circled the earth on merchant ships. He wrote a hundred books, and had more million copy best-sellers than any other author. I was personally desolated by his death. What a glorious man! He was a true troubadour in the original sense. Joseph H. Pierre
Author of The Road to Damascus: Our Journey Through Eternity
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Summary: Outside of the Sackett's, this is L'Amour's best book
Review: If you are a Louis L'Amour fan but would like to get something which is a bit different than his usual story, after visiting the Sackett series, this is your book. ALthough the ending struck me as odd, some guy in Russia he happened to run into new the character's father, could have done without that, otherwise, it was an excellent book.
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Summary: EASILY LAMOURS 2nd BEST EVER
Review: Okay, I gave walking drum 5 stars. Give me a break, thats the first book I have ever given 5 stars. This one deserves 5 stars as well. Easily 2nd best ever behind The Walking Drum. I read this in like 2 days, I could not put it down. Probably one of the best reads of all times. Not a western, just really good.
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Summary: Survival
Review: This is an action-packed book about Major Joe Makatozi and his fight for survival. Captured by Russians, Joe "Mack" must escape and flee into the Siberian wilderness. With nearly half the Russian army in hot pursuit, he reverts back to the ways of his Indian ancestors. The longer he spends in the wilderness, the more he begins to become a Sioux. However, Joe Mack has to evade Alekhin, a legendary tracker who is also a native. To escape Russia, Joe Mack knows he must cross the Bering Strait, the same path his ancestors took many years before. Also, he must endure a harsh Siberian winter. If you want to find out how Joe Mack deals with these hardships, you better read the book for yourself.
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Summary: Even for non-readers
Review: My mother, my brother, and I are all avid readers, and we have all read and loved this book. My mom has gone through at least half a dozen copies because she keeps giving them away for other people to read. My mother and father have been married for 28 years, and she has never, repeat never, seen him read anything but trade magazines and the newspaper. On a whim, he asked my mom for something to read on a trip, and without hesitation, she gave him this one to read. He called on his trip and said that he couldn't put it down. In fact, when he came home at 11:30 at night, he had to stay up until 2:00 to finish the book.
I know of no better recommendation than that one. It's a great book that I think anyone would love.
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Summary: This is a good one
Review: This book gets my vote as a great LL novel and is an excellent read. It reads very quick and the pages fly and it leaves you with a sense of pride, pride in the human spirit. This book rocks and is definitely worth reading several times. This novel is written with all the talent and passion we expect from LL but something more is added to this novel that makes it stand out. Read it and you will see exactly what I mean. Happy reading!
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Summary: Page-turning story of adventure and survival
Review: It has been more than ten years since I read this as a teenager but this book sticks out in my mind. I didn't stray too much from science fiction back then, but my father recommended it. In hindsight, I think it was rather a "guy's book". The protagonist was fairly isolated and rarely interacted with other people. Nevertheless the story was quite engaging. I highly recommend this to any young person who loves the outdoors or who generally does not read novels. The prose is easy to follow but logical. I was always eager to find out what was going to happen next.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book is about a Air Force pilot who is shot over communist Russia and has to use his native american indian skills to make it out. Unfortunalty for him the only way out is across Siberia and over the Bering Streight. Great story and great plot the only complaint I have is it tends to be kind of slow in some parts.
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