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18657794 No.18657794 [Reply] [Original]

I want to read whatever the term would be for a Spaghetti Western in book form. I want a good story in the Old West, with all of the tropes, the pastiches and references more to the genre itself than theming and literature. I want the good guys to be wearing white hats, the bad guys black hats, if you see what I mean.
I know that back in the days of pulps and magazines tons of this sort of Western were pumped out, but I want to hear what the good ones are to get started.
I've read Blood Meridian, and a handful of short stories.

>> No.18657883
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>>18657794
I also would love to read stories inspired by Spaghetti Westerns anon. That being said;
>I want the good guys to be wearing white hats, the bad guys black hats, if you see what I mean
this type of western is different from a Spaghetti Western. SW's are the Sword and Sorcery of the western genre. The protagonists are almost always more concerned with their own survival rather than idealism. The good guy standing up to the bad for the sake of some altruistic reason is more characteristic of a traditional American western.
A lot of my own writing is heavily inspired by Spaghetti Westerns.

>> No.18657893

>>18657794
Dark Tower

>> No.18657924

>>18657794
>with all of the tropes, the pastiches and references more to the genre itself than theming and literature
As has already been pointed out, such things are what the spaghetti western cast off. Things like Oakley Hall, Cormac McCarthy and their followers are what you want, if you want spaghetti. If you want tropes and the like try Louis L'amour, Elmore Leonard, Larry McMurty and their ilk.

>> No.18657943

>>18657794
Cormac McCarthy (specifically Blood Meridian, all three books in The Border Trilogy, and No Country For Old Men) is a must-read. Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove ranks up there with Blood Meridian as a genre-defining, genre-transcending western; Larry McMurtry's other westerns are very good as well. Butcher's Crossing is another more literary western. Elmore Leonard's westerns are on the more pulpy side, still damn good though. Louis L'Amour's westerns are classic but very pulpy, very much akin to the MCU but for baby boomers

>> No.18657960

>>18657794
>I want the good guys to be wearing white hats, the bad guys black hats, if you see what I mean
I see exactly what you mean and that shit is not welcome in our society you fucking pig-sympathizer

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>>18657883
>>18657924
>>18657943
Yeah, I guess I wrote too much in the OP. Thanks for the points and suggestions.
>>18657960
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>>18658883
Kek, sorry if I sounded like a pedant there anon. Just very into Spaghetti Westerns and lit. I believe Robert E. Howard had some western short stories. They might be worth looking into.