Title: Sackett
Series: The Sacketts, book 7
Author: Louis L’Amour
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Books
Narrator: David Strathairn
Duration: 4 hours, 32 minutes
Copyright: 2001
Genres: western
Filed in: Audiobook reviews
Review copy provided by Kearney Public Library.
THE GIST: William Tell Sackett, while riding through the mountains, discovers an old, abandoned gold mine. Better yet, he finds that there is still a rich vein in the mine just waiting for someone to dig it out. Tell knows he can’t carry all the gold out now, so he takes just enough to buy some mining equipment and heads down to Mora, New Mexico where his brothers, Oren and Tyrell, have built a ranch.
Tell knows that riding into town with that much gold is bound to draw attention, and he is not wrong. It seems like ears prick up all over town, but it can't be helped. Tell only spends a couple of days with Ma and his brothers before heading out again with his purchased supplies. Cap Roundtree, who hooked up with Oren and Tyrell in “The Daybreakers", decides he is ready to do some riding again and so leaves with Tell.
When Tell and Cap arrive back at the mine, they do some planning. They know the gold strike will draw plenty of people and those people will need supplies. They start right away building a town.
Of course, not all the men who arrive are willing to work for their gold, some would rather just take it. Tell and Cap soon find themselves up against a large band of outlaws. They should have known better than to cross a Sacket, though.
THE AUTHOR: Louis L’Amour published 105 books before his death in 1988, including 14 short story collections, and 17 Sackett books. That's a pretty good track record. His audio books have a timeless quality to them that I'm sure will live on for a long, long time.
THE NARRATOR: David Strathairn is an actor who has been in more movies and tv shows than I could name, but I’ll give you a couple: “LA Confidential", and "A Midsummer Night's Dream”, plus tv roles in “Miami Vice”, and “The Sopranos.” He’s never the star though, or even a co-star, he’s always in the smaller roles. I’ve seen several of the films he's been in, but don't recognize his name from any of them. I’m glad he turned to audio books, L’Amour’s books just wouldn’t be the same without him.
DEEP THOUGHTS: “Sackett” is the seventh audio book in Louis L’Amour’s Sackett series. I'll admit that I'm not a huge fan of westerns, but I love the historical tidbits provided in these audio books. “Sackett” gives us a good look at how all those little mining towns sprang in to existence during the gold rush. This would have been a fascinating time to be alive.
CHECK OUT THESE OTHER AUDIOBOOK REVIEWS:
The Daybreakers by Louis L’Amour (Audiobook Review)
Mojave Crossing by Louis L’Amour (Audiobook Review)
The Sackett Brand by Louis L’Amour (Audiobook Review)
If you liked this audiobook review, you can purchase the audiobook here:
Get The Sackett Novels of Louis L'Amour, Volume 2: The Daybreakers, Sackett, Lando, Mojave Crossing from Amazon.com
This audiobook review is based on the unabridged audiobook.
Audiobook review by Steven Brandt
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I enjoyed this book. I, too, liked the historical tidbits, but also the descriptions L'Amour provides throughout. He gives us enough to make this, like most of his novels, a very visual flavor.
ReplyDeleteI do like the Sackett characters. They're fun to follow from book to book. I think the weakness of the so-called first two ro three Sacketts tales derive from taking place in the post-Elizabethan age. We expect a western flavor in L'Amour's tales, not pirates and swashbuckling. But after reading the western stories I truly enjoyed L'Amour's creating the family, and its origins in England.
The run time was only four hours? Wow!
You always sound so scholarly Benning. Want to write some book reviews for me? ;)
ReplyDeleteBenning sounds scholarly because he IS scholarly. I am always reminded of Good Will Hunting, when I think of benning. :)
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