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What can you tell me about Zane Grey books are they worth reading?
He wrote so many books that when he died in 1939, he left such a huge backlog of unpublished work that his publishers were able to keep printing new Zane Grey books for decades! The critics, both during Grey’s time and today, have been generally rather dismissive of his work, often accusing him of creating hokey plots and excessively idealized characters. And his work isn’t nearly as popular with the general public as it used to be. But he still has a following, and it could well be that you would enjoy his exciting plots, his unique way with words, his love of nature and his earnest, heroic characters.
Grey was ahead of his time in some ways: his 1925 novel “The Vanishing American” depicted the Navajo people as courageous and noble in their struggle to hold onto their culture, an idea that was actually quite controversial at the time. If you’re interested in exploring his work, a good place to start could be 1912’s “Riders of the Purple Stage.” It’s his best-known novel, and helped established Old West stories as a genre.
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