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    Lando

    Written by Louis L'Amour

    Narrated by Josh Hamilton

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    About this audiobook

    In LANDO, Louis L'Amour has created an unforgettable portrait of a unique American hero.

    For six long years Orlando Sackett survived the horrors of a brutal Mexican prison. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. The first was to exact revenge on the hired killers who framed him. The second was to return to his father. And the third was to find Gin Locklear. But the world has changed a lot since Lando left it. His father is missing. The woman he loves is married. And the killers want him dead. Hardened physically and emotionally, Lando must begin an epic journey to resolve his past, even if it costs him his life.


    From the Compact Disc edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 18, 2003
    ISBN9780739302019
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    • 3/5
      As a child Lando is left in the care of a faithless neighbor, but within a few years strikes out on his own, heading west. His travels take him eventually to Texas and Mexico, competing with outlaws and relatives on a quest for gold. Standard but enjoyable fare from this author.
    • 4/5
      This Western starts out in Tennessee and moves west. It's theme seems to be revenge and it is explored in several ways. Sadly, I don't think the character of Lando was as well developed as the Sacketts were in the earlier novels. However, the character of the Tinker was rich with hints about his past. The mystery behind Falcon Sackett was also nicely created. Those and a racing mule raised the book above the average Western.Fans of Louis L'Amour will like this book. Fans of the Sackett series will want it.
    • 3/5
      This book is only 3 stars, because it ended so well. However, the first half of the book was very difficult to get through.

      First, Lando really isn't all that deep of a character. In fact, it's really hard to get a compass out of him. Is he loyal to a fault? Honest? Moral integrity? There is fight in him, but is that it? He just falls very flat on the page. In fact, Lando's father and the Tinker are more intriguing. Why not write more about them?

      Second, the story is very jagged and hard to follow. This seems like it was written under a rush, or with a quick thought, and not much editing put into it. Knowing from the back of the book that Lando spends 6 years in Mexican prison, grows large in muscular stature, and learns how to fight, I was really looking forward to this story. Instead, it lasted all of a page or two, before the 6 years was over, and he was escaping.

      What saved the book, was getting his revenge. It was certainly ... odd that he had a racing mule that could beat well-bred racing horses, but whatever. What was a fun read, was when he gets into a London-style boxing match with Dun Caffrey. That was probably the best writing in the book.
    • 4/5
      Up to this point my experience with Westerns has been limited to shelving them at the library and observing how much the Amish young men of my hometown loved them. That and the aggressively male tone of the genre combined to make me think that Westerns were somehow inferior to my usual reads — too formulaic, too predictable, and too blinded by their own conventions to be enjoyed by anyone outside the circle of the campfire. But I have come to realize how much I enjoy genre-driven books. Don't formulas exist because they work? Anyone who enjoys a good murder mystery, as I do, would have to agree. Formulaic isn't always bad.Prolific and immensely popular, Louis L'Amour is to Westerns what Agatha Christie is to mysteries. I wanted to break into the genre with something in the mainstream, and considering L'Amour's 80+ titles, he seemed a good choice. And so I picked up the audiobook of Lando, seventh in L'Amour's Sackett saga. Perhaps L'Amour experts can tell me if this was a good option for my first Western or if there are other titles they would have recommended, but I certainly enjoyed it. This unabridged audiobook was read by Josh Hamilton for Random House Audio.Lando tells the story of Orlando Sackett, who, at age eleven, is left by his recently widowed father with Mr. McCaffrey for his education and upbringing, paid for in mysterious Spanish gold. But McCaffrey is a hard man, and Lando runs away to live alone at the old family homestead in the Tennessee mountains. Five years later he leaves those mountains with the Tinker, who brings news of Lando's three uncles who are bent on murdering him. They wander west, in a way that seems aimless at first. But it soon becomes clear that there is a secret purpose to the Tinker's travels — a long-lost treasure sunk off the Mexican coast. Where did Lando's father Falcon Sackett get that rich Spanish gold? And did he teach Lando the clues to its whereabouts before he left?The story is surprisingly complex, encompassing a quest, exile, horseracing, a monumental boxing match, imprisonment, torture, revenge, lovely ladies, double-crossing landowners, pirates, outlaws, and more. I can see why the Amish boys would gulp this stuff down so hungrily — I found myself inhaling the story impatiently as I made my daily commute. Perhaps those Amish boys and I aren't so different after all. We both love good storytelling. And there's just so much that is fun about a tale like this... the manly men, the pretty women with their various secret agendas, the gunslinging and fist action, the history woven casually into the narrative.L'Amour is a master of pacing and more than once I smiled (and grimaced!) at the cliffhangers at the end of his long chapters. Occasionally the prose felt a bit stilted; maybe it's just the way that Hamilton reads. But I noticed this less and less as the story gathered steam.So I read my first Western, and I'm glad curiosity got the best of my snobbery. Lando is great fun and I'll be looking for more of L'Amour's books, especially those in the Sackett cycle.
    • 4/5
      Gold and Sacketts - the combination always spells trouble. For Lando Sackett, it spells six years in a Mexican prison doing time for knowing where the gold is. But now he's out, and he's going hunting.Love that racing mule!
    • 5/5
      A bit boring for a Sackett. Once again the blurbers do it an injustice - the time covered on the blurb constitutes about 6 pages in the entire book.This is the story of Lando Sacket, "orphaned" son of Falcon Sackett. When his mother dies, Falcon gives Will Caffrey money to board and educate 8-yr-old Lando until his return.Instead, Will uses the money for his own gain, sends HIS son Duncan to school and treats Lando as an indentured servant.Lando reaches his limit and runs away back to his home cabin when he is 10. Soon after The Tinker shows up - it's much much later that Lando realizes WHY the Tinker appeared when this boy raising himself needed outside assistance most.The story is of how Lando, reaching majority, heads West to make himself - to earn lands and 'riches' by his own hand, to find out what happened to his father, to learn why the Kurbishaw brothers are hunting him.
    • 4/5
      Up to this point my experience with Westerns has been limited to shelving them at the library and observing how much the Amish young men of my hometown loved them. That and the aggressively male tone of the genre combined to make me think that Westerns were somehow inferior to my usual reads — too formulaic, too predictable, and too blinded by their own conventions to be enjoyed by anyone outside the circle of the campfire. But I have come to realize how much I enjoy genre-driven books. Don't formulas exist because they work? Anyone who enjoys a good murder mystery, as I do, would have to agree. Formulaic isn't always bad.Prolific and immensely popular, Louis L'Amour is to Westerns what Agatha Christie is to mysteries. I wanted to break into the genre with something in the mainstream, and considering L'Amour's 80+ titles, he seemed a good choice. And so I picked up the audiobook of Lando, seventh in L'Amour's Sackett saga. Perhaps L'Amour experts can tell me if this was a good option for my first Western or if there are other titles they would have recommended, but I certainly enjoyed it. This unabridged audiobook was read by Josh Hamilton for Random House Audio.Lando tells the story of Orlando Sackett, who, at age eleven, is left by his recently widowed father with Mr. McCaffrey for his education and upbringing, paid for in mysterious Spanish gold. But McCaffrey is a hard man, and Lando runs away to live alone at the old family homestead in the Tennessee mountains. Five years later he leaves those mountains with the Tinker, who brings news of Lando's three uncles who are bent on murdering him. They wander west, in a way that seems aimless at first. But it soon becomes clear that there is a secret purpose to the Tinker's travels — a long-lost treasure sunk off the Mexican coast. Where did Lando's father Falcon Sackett get that rich Spanish gold? And did he teach Lando the clues to its whereabouts before he left?The story is surprisingly complex, encompassing a quest, exile, horseracing, a monumental boxing match, imprisonment, torture, revenge, lovely ladies, double-crossing landowners, pirates, outlaws, and more. I can see why the Amish boys would gulp this stuff down so hungrily — I found myself inhaling the story impatiently as I made my daily commute. Perhaps those Amish boys and I aren't so different after all. We both love good storytelling. And there's just so much that is fun about a tale like this... the manly men, the pretty women with their various secret agendas, the gunslinging and fist action, the history woven casually into the narrative.L'Amour is a master of pacing and more than once I smiled (and grimaced!) at the cliffhangers at the end of his long chapters. Occasionally the prose felt a bit stilted; maybe it's just the way that Hamilton reads. But I noticed this less and less as the story gathered steam.So I read my first Western, and I'm glad curiosity got the best of my snobbery. Lando is great fun and I'll be looking for more of L'Amour's books, especially those in the Sackett cycle.
    • 5/5
      An extra good Sackett book. I wish I would have read all the Sackett books in order, but it's too late for that. But there's good as stand alones, too.