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Alan Brown Le May was an American novelist and screenplay writer. He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers and The Unforgiven. They were adapted into the motion pictures 'The Searchers' and 'The Unforgiven'.
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Free gaming ladder script php pencarian google. In this great American masterpiece, which served as the basis for the classic John Wayne film, two men with very different agendas push their endurance beyond all faith and hope to find a little girl captured by the Comanche.
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Published August 15th 1987 by Jove (first published 1954)
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Aug 07, 2014Jeffrey Keeten rated it really liked it
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”A man has to learn to forgive himself,” Amos said, his voice unnaturally gentle….”Or he can’t stand to live. It so happens we be Texans. We took a reachin’ holt, way far out, past where any man has right or reason to hold on. Or it we didn’t, our folks did, so we can’t leave off, without giving up that they were fools, wasting their lives, and washed in the way they died.”
The moment of realization.
Amos Edwards and Marty Pauley are helping to retrieve some cattle that have been stolen from a ne..more
May 04, 2013Matt rated it really liked itThe moment of realization.
Amos Edwards and Marty Pauley are helping to retrieve some cattle that have been stolen from a ne..more
Shelves: american-indian-wars, frontier, old-west
I was a huge John Wayne fan growing up. Like, embarrassingly huge. I had a framed picture in my bedroom. I had a thick celebratory magazine that provided descriptions of every single one of his movies (some 200 or more, including bit parts). I had a John Wayne paper doll collection! Whenever a cable station had a “John Wayne Weekend,” I’d buy a stack of VHS tapes and record for hours on end. I loved his drawl, his catchphrases, his swagger, and his big right hook.
Eventually, I grew up, and my c..more
Eventually, I grew up, and my c..more
Aug 04, 2018Jim rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I've seen the movie so many times that I couldn't put a number to it; I thought I would finally get around to reading the source material. I'm gonna say it, and I can only remember saying this once before, 'The movie was better!' Not that the book wasn't good, but the movie was a masterpiece..some critics have argued that it was the best movie ever filmed.
Odd about reading the book after seeing the movie..had I read the book first I would never have pictured Monument Valley as the type of land..more
Mar 25, 2017Cphe rated it liked it · review of another editionOdd about reading the book after seeing the movie..had I read the book first I would never have pictured Monument Valley as the type of land..more
Shelves: classic, historical, 2017, western, wilderness
Remember watching the movie a few years ago and have always wanted to read the book. A classic western themed novel. It was the isolation and sense of community, the vastness of the country that is really brought home to the reader here, so well depicted and visual.
Really appreciated the foreword written about the making of 'The Searchers' and an insight to the making of many of the TV westerns that I watched as a young child. Novel is well worth reading for the 'foreword' alone.
Jun 11, 2012Bettie rated it liked itReally appreciated the foreword written about the making of 'The Searchers' and an insight to the making of many of the TV westerns that I watched as a young child. Novel is well worth reading for the 'foreword' alone.
Recommended to Bettie by: Isca Silurum
Shelves: film-only, published-1954, re-visit-2014, period-piece, us-western, summer-2012, north-americas, under-1000-ratings, autumn-2014
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Oct 22, 2009Richard rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I was glad to find this new reprint of the 1954 Alan LeMay classic. LeMay has made a reputation as a writer of stories set in Texas. He has a score of screenplays, novels and short stories to his credit. This novel was the basis of a 1956 film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. It is considered to be a great classic western movie; it, and several other Ford-Wayne westerns, including the 1939 'Stagecoach' are quoted by modern directors, including Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese a..more
Jul 06, 2010Ben Loory rated it really liked it · review of another edition
it's funny, i've probably seen the john ford version of this book 25-30 times, and it never once even occurred to me that it might be based on a book.. it took david mamet's mentioning it as one of his five favorite novels to get me to actually look into it. it's a very different kind of book than True Grit, the other western on mamet's list.. slower, longer, straighter, never funny.. it's calm and spacious and mythic but still realistic, informative while still always emotional. the ending i..more
Sep 05, 2014Susan Stuber rated it it was amazing
If you are interested in the last years of the native Americans in Texas, and you want a highly nuanced, well-written and enthralling story to go with it, this is your book. I found it ever so much better than Lonesome Dove and The Son. LeMay does not try to make any of his characters into heros or villains, he simply tells the story (beautifully, without pathos) and lets the reader make his/her own opinions of who was morally right and wrong. There is no pat plot here, no foreseeable outcome, u..more
The Searchers is an excellent western novel that is loosely based on the story of Cynthia Ann Parker who was abducted by Comanches in Texas in 1836 when she was about 10 years of age. She remained a captive for over 20 years until she was 'recaptured' by white society. While living with the Comanches, she was pursued by several family members but to no avail. She did give birth to several children during her captivity. Her oldest, Quannah, became a legendary Comanche chief and oversaw the transi..more
Oct 27, 2014Laura rated it liked it · 
review of another edition Shelves: read-2014, audio-books, american-fiction, american-western
From BBC Radio 4 - Classical Serial:
Texas, 1848. When Comanches attack the Edwards family's settlement on the Texas plains, they kidnap two girls - seventeen year-old Lucy and ten year-old Debbie. So Amos Edwards sets out on the dangerous mission to recover his two nieces, with the help of his nephew Mart and a rag-tag bunch of searchers. Their epic mission will last six years. The concluding episode is at the same time next week.
Alan Le May's 1954 novel is a timeless work of western fiction and..more
Texas, 1848. When Comanches attack the Edwards family's settlement on the Texas plains, they kidnap two girls - seventeen year-old Lucy and ten year-old Debbie. So Amos Edwards sets out on the dangerous mission to recover his two nieces, with the help of his nephew Mart and a rag-tag bunch of searchers. Their epic mission will last six years. The concluding episode is at the same time next week.
Alan Le May's 1954 novel is a timeless work of western fiction and..more
John Ford’s “The Searchers” has always been one of my favorite movies of all time, so it was with trepidation that I turned to the novel that spawned it. I needn’t have worried. They are close in many respects and do tell more or less the same story, and yet there are significant differences between them. I am not going to play the game of which is better , but I am going to say I enjoyed both of them immensely.
May 25, 2015Simon Lewis rated it really liked it
As night falls in the Texas borderlands, a lone rancher prepares to defend his family against Comanches. Miles away, his brother leads a posse tracking cow thieves. He finds only carcasses. There are no thieves: the Indians have lured the men away so that the family can be killed. They race back, running their horses to death, and return to the aftermath of a slaughter. The only bodies missing are those of the two young girls.
All this happens within about a dozen pages, making the opening of Th..more
All this happens within about a dozen pages, making the opening of Th..more
May 02, 2016Doug rated it really liked it
This classic Western was the source of the John Ford-John Wayne movie of the same title. The film differs in some critical ways from the book. The novel has a great, exciting beginning, with settlers lured away from their homes, leaving them unprotected from Comanche attack. Two sisters are taken by unknown Indians -- and then the long (years long) search ensues. The book has a little trouble keeping up its intensity, simply because the two searchers travel, and travel some more, and continually..more
I fell in love with the film version of The Searchers, the very first time I saw it, but I never did read the original novel. Well, I have corrected that oversight and I was not disappointed. This is not a western pulp read. It is dark and edgy, as it follows Amos Edwards, (Ethan in the film) and Martin Pauley as they doggedly search the Texas territory. for a little girl, kidnapped by the Comanches. This was based on an actual event. A good, solid read.
Nov 26, 2017John rated it liked it · review of another edition
I enjoyed the beginning and the end but found the middle a bit repetitive and boring. Certainly more gritty and realistic than the movie.
One of the best books of any kind I've ever read. It formed the basis of the John Wayne/John Ford movie of the same name which has been hailed as the greatest western and among the best of all motion pictures ever made. Reading the book, you get the sense its power simply rushed onto movie screen.
Writing a historical novel in accurate but readable dialogue, while maintaining narration in effective modern language that is not a broken version of the dialogue is extremely difficult. LeMay does it..more
Writing a historical novel in accurate but readable dialogue, while maintaining narration in effective modern language that is not a broken version of the dialogue is extremely difficult. LeMay does it..more
Sep 01, 2019Paul rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Had he been a cow-horse you might have bought him, if you liked them mean, and later shot him, if you didn't like them treacherous.
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The Searchers by Alan Le May (1899-1964), published 1954
I had been curious about this book for a long time, having never read it, but knowing that I've seen the movie enough times over the years to know some of the lines, I thought it was time to look at the source. So, roughly fifty years after the book was published, I read it.
Amos Edwards (not Ethan Edwards, as in the movie) is the Captain Ahab of the book, in this case, a man driven by an..more
May 30, 2019Bryan457 rated it really liked it · review of another editionThe Searchers by Alan Le May (1899-1964), published 1954
I had been curious about this book for a long time, having never read it, but knowing that I've seen the movie enough times over the years to know some of the lines, I thought it was time to look at the source. So, roughly fifty years after the book was published, I read it.
Amos Edwards (not Ethan Edwards, as in the movie) is the Captain Ahab of the book, in this case, a man driven by an..more
Shelves: historical-fiction, western, revenge, own-it-ebook, profanity
Raids, revenge & violent atrocities between Comanches and Texas settlers.
Feb 11, 2016Marlee rated it did not like it · review of another edition
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Apr 06, 2011Gregory rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
This was the best western novel I've read so far. The characters and the details of life in post-Civil War Texas are rich and flavorful. The effort put into the dialogue is amazing. Reading this novel is like living a bit in the 19th century through the lives of these people. The main characters (Amos and Marty) are simply unforgettable. This is truly a character study more than a western story. You get to know 'the searchers' over their long and perilous search like few characters in fiction. T..more
This book beautifully evoked place and time. However, I didn't read too far into because.. well, I can't say for sure, exactly. I think I could just get all I wanted from it (setting, as it turned out) from reading the first part and then looking through the rest. But I didn't feel the need to read the whole thing cover to cover because not much was really going to happen, and I was also uncomfortable with the portrayal of all Indians as evil incarnate. Maybe it's a legitimate portrayal of thin..more
My brother and nephew think the film of this is just about the best thing in the world. It’s not my favorite although I admit it’s good so I wanted to read the book. Here you get more of a sense of how much time the search took and some of the hardships encountered. Really liked it and loved the ending.
Sep 06, 2012Chrisl rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: texas, natives, hf-usa, 1950s, classic, comanche
Quote from Alan LeMay, The Searchers :
“The Comanches were supposed to be the most literal-minded of all the tribes. There are Indians who live in a poetic world, half of the spirit, but the Comanches were a tough-minded, practical people, who laughed at the religious ceremonies of other tribes as crazy-Indian foolishness. They had no official medicine men, no pantheon of named gods, no ordered theology. Yet they lived very close to the objects of the earth around them, and sensed in rocks, and w..more
“The Comanches were supposed to be the most literal-minded of all the tribes. There are Indians who live in a poetic world, half of the spirit, but the Comanches were a tough-minded, practical people, who laughed at the religious ceremonies of other tribes as crazy-Indian foolishness. They had no official medicine men, no pantheon of named gods, no ordered theology. Yet they lived very close to the objects of the earth around them, and sensed in rocks, and w..more
Picked this up because it's the basis for my favorite John Wayne movie. A great deal of the story was incorporated exactly into the movie. But there were changes. And, unfortunately, for the book, the movie versions won out every time. One part of the ending especially upset me. I can't give it away for anyone who will be reading the book, but I think you'd agree with me.
Biggest problem I had was the fact that the leading man's name was Amos Edwards. Thank God the movie changed it to Ethan Edwar..more
Aug 20, 2008Misfit rated it it was amazing · review of another editionBiggest problem I had was the fact that the leading man's name was Amos Edwards. Thank God the movie changed it to Ethan Edwar..more
Shelves: read-and-keep-for-a-reread, historical-fiction
There's a whole lot of story packed in these 270 pages! Wow, I would never have believed how good this was. I remember being disappointed when the book arrived, because I had assumed such a big story would of course be a BIG book. I usually won't touch a book under 400 pages, the bigger the better. I was wrong in this case, what an awesome story -- five long years searching for little Debbie.
The characters were wonderful, many tragic moments where you want to just cry, and other moments along t..more
The characters were wonderful, many tragic moments where you want to just cry, and other moments along t..more
Jun 05, 2014Jim Kennedy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Really, really good. Not quite what I was expecting, this is a serious, sad, dark tale, not normally what I go for, but brilliantly told and I was riveted. The Indians, the white men and the land and time they inhabit just engulfed me from start to finish. I'm going to have to watch the movie. And I will be reading more from LeMay.
This story will be staying with me for a while I think.
This story will be staying with me for a while I think.
This will be a book-cum-film review, if that's allowable.
I read Alan le May's novel having decided that it was time I gave John Ford's film proper consideration. Given that Ford and Wayne are generally held to have made one of the best westerns ever in 'The Searchers', and given that I have always found it hard to see why that opinion is so held, I thought that reading the original novel would help.
I've concluded that I probably rate Ford's adaptation more highly than Alan le May's original.
Firs..more
I read Alan le May's novel having decided that it was time I gave John Ford's film proper consideration. Given that Ford and Wayne are generally held to have made one of the best westerns ever in 'The Searchers', and given that I have always found it hard to see why that opinion is so held, I thought that reading the original novel would help.
I've concluded that I probably rate Ford's adaptation more highly than Alan le May's original.
Firs..more
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I'm sure many are familiar with the classic John Wayne film version of the novel. It is a cinematic classic western. By the same token, clearly not as many are familiar with the LeMay novel on which the film is based. The novel is clearly one of the best westerns of all time. At it's heart the novel is a classic quest novel-- recovery of a child stolen by Indians after the family is massacred. Yet, the novel expands on this classic concept wonderfully. The description is fantastic. The moods and..more
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Alan Brown Le May was an American novelist and screenplay writer. He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers and The Unforgiven. They were adapted into the motion pictures 'The Searchers' and 'The Unforgiven'.
He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for 'North West Mounted Police' (1940), 'Reap the Wild Wind' (1942), 'Blackbeard the Pirate' (1952). He wrote the original..more
He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for 'North West Mounted Police' (1940), 'Reap the Wild Wind' (1942), 'Blackbeard the Pirate' (1952). He wrote the original..more
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