Shane (New Windmills Ks4)

from LisaMaria_C

A mysterious stranger rides up to a lonely homestead. That's an archetypal Western figure, familiar in my reading of Westerns from a recommendation list, and certainly Shane is much better written and worth the reading than Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage or Louis L'Amour's Hondo or Max Bra...

from jseger9000

I'm having a really tough time writing a review for Shane. I liked the book quite a bit, but just don't have a lot to say about it. A compact little book with some depth to it. It's a tough book to summarize. The book was so influential on other westerns that any summary will now sound like a pil...

from TadAD

In some ways, the book is full of stereotypes. We have the staunch but beleaguered farmer, the evil land baron, the brave gunfighter, etc. Part of that is because that's the western formula and part because many stories post-1949 have emulated Shane. Regardless, Schaefer manages to transcend that...

from kim.maughan

(From Barnes & Noble) Often described as the "perfect" western, Shane simultaneously reaffirms and transcends genre conventions. This 1953 film's basic premise -- the violent struggle between greedy cattlemen and intrepid homesteaders -- is as old as the horse opera itself and is depicted by dire...

from ctpress

Where was Shane? I hurried toward the barn. I was almost to it when I saw him out by the pasture. He was staring over it and the grazing steers at the great lonely mountains tipped with the gold of the sun now rushing down behind them. As I watched, he stretched his arms up, the fingers reaching ...