L'Amour is very good, no doubt, and he's also very prolific. I find Leonard's stories much realer, though. L'Amour is a little too predictable in how he casts heroes and villains, and in how he sets up the dramatic action in a story. I always get the feeling with L'Amour that I'm reading an entertaining story which I can't forget IS just a story while I'm reading it. It seems mythological in a sense. But I get the feeling with Leonard that I'm actually there. He totally convinces me.

I would give L'Amour a very solid three out of four stars, in other words on his westerns, but I'd give Leonard the whole four stars.

Of L'Amour's books, though, I think that "Jubal Sackett" is absolutely outstanding. It's a great adventure story. So that one I give four stars.