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I read quite a lot of L'Amour as a kid. I always felt that his traditional westerns were pretty much the same book rewritten for publisher's deadlines.

But, when he broke away from his traditional western, he could be quite good. "Down the Long Hills" was a western about two kids stranded on a mountain, and the search to find them. I couldn't put it down. I really enjoyed "The Haunted Mesa." He could write, but like many authors, he found his bread and butter (westerns) and kept buttering the bread, I think about three novels a year for a while.

A lot of authors are like that. They need to eat too, and they write what sells, and I can't fault them for that. But, in the middle of the average stuff, there are often a few jewels.