TRP's suggested reading

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

I am a few days late on my mail, as usual, so perhaps this won't be useful,  We discussed 
WARLOCK on the list about a year or so ago.  I think it is a great novel.  It uses the 
Western genre very skillfuilly to make all sorts of interesting observations about language
 and communication (haven't read it in 10 years, but I think it is at least partly in 
epistolary form, not too common for a say, Louis L'Amour product).  Hall is so skillful at
 co-opting the potboiler Western genre that the book was actually made into a film that is 
pure Oater (despite guys like Anthony Quinn and maybe even Kirk Douglas), a 
completley unselfconscious *western* and really lame.  But the novel, IMO, is a rare gem.
Don't confuse the two, however.
john m
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dgg writes:
>About a billion years ago, TRP and Richard Farin~a were pushing an Oakley
>Hall Western, _Warlock_, on their friends.  TRP once said _Warlock_ was one
>of the best novels of this century.  Has anyone else on this list read the
>critter?  If so, I'd like to hear y'all's impressions, hoots, hollers,
>bitches, rants, pontifications, et and cetera.  
>
>Thankee kindly,