"Joe McIntosh" wrote in message
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Spent the afternoon between morning tennis match and evening tennis
match
read ing "Hunted"--a novel by John Holt who has produced a couple
of
Montana fishing guide books.
A story about a good guy rancher who fights the assault of
civilization.

Edward Abbey explored more or less that theme about as well as it can
be done, I think, in "The Brave Cowboy".

I suggest he sticks to fishing guides,
By the way wolfgang --what can we call the other authors who brag on
his
book on the back cover?

"Shills" springs immediately to mind. Others have used less
flattering terms, but I don't recall what they are just now......and
this IS a family newsgroup.

Please repay the favor?

....in kind. Yes, virtually all of them do. It's a business like any
other. Very few survive for long without understanding and bowing to
the rules.

They compare his writing with Stegner and Proulx.

I've never made it through a work by Proulx......only read enough to
know that I'll never make it through a work by Proulx. Seems to me
that comparing anything to Stegner AND Proulx is an exercise in
contortion. It may be fun.......but you WILL pay for it in the
morning.

Heck it is more like
something Homer Simpson would enjoy...

Sorta like ROFF, huh?

Wolfgang