Do You like book The Man Of The Forest (2000)?
Youve no idea how difficult it is to come across a Zane Grey book that is not Riders of the Purple Sage - nothin' wrong with RotPS, but once you read that book (and if you love western books like I do) you thirst for more. Purple Sage just isnt enough. This was the second book of his that I read and not being familiar with his other stories, I was a bit surprised at the laconic way Grey takes his time in telling the story while letting us inside the head of the main character. I had not expected a 'philosophical' character at all, but I liked it!
—Mary Thornell
My dad had a collection of nearly every single Zane Grey book ever written when I was a child. This is the first one I read. I was probably 10 or 11, and it was hard reading for that age. It took me a while to get through it, but once I finished I was hooked. This book was the gateway to the rest of the Zane Grey's in my dad's collection. That was a good thing.I probably can't give a completely unbiased review of this book. Anything I read and loved as a child I have a hard time actually critiquing. It could be absolutely awful writing, but there's the whole nostalgia factor. Anyway, I think it's difficult to go wrong with Zane Grey. I'm a hopeless romantic, and lucky for me, so was Zane Grey.
—Laura
Read one Zane Grey book and you have read them all. I have read maybe 10 or so of his books. The story line is always the same, just different settings and different names. Always a lonely young man, typically a cowboy, a pretty young girl in desperate circumstances, a bad guy always trying to get the girl and the cowboy saving her. The formula always has the cowboy win the fight and saving the girl. (There is only one of Grey's stories where the good guy looses.) Grey's books are typically easy reads and fun. However, they are very predictable.
—Lawrence
