Continuing on my Western genre theme, I just finished Walter Van Tilburg Clark's 1940 classic The Ox-Bow Incident. The prose of this novel can be likened to that of a hard-boiled detective novel. Yet the theme is as broad as frontier life, mob violence, law and order, justice in the American West.
The movie version somewhat follows the novel:
Started reading Winston Groom's El Paso. Another Western about northern Mexico and the revolution down there. Yes, same Winston Groom who wrote Forrest Gump.
Lest you all think all I read are Westerns, well, no, that's just what I read in bed at night. Last week I finished three books:
- John Keegan's The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. A very intense and insightful book about battles and war by a master.
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe's A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism. Hoppe is heir to the Austrian School of Economics
- Robert Nisbet's Twilight of Authority. A review and revision of his earlier The Quest for Community