On Saturday I read The Trail to Crazy Man by Louis Lamour. It was a short story and was only about one hundred and eighty pages long. This meant the story had to be very brief and concise with a lot of action. This book was a lot different style than the last book I read by Louis Lamour because this one was so much shorter and was a lot more action packed. In this novel it held and captivated you simply because of how much action there was going on at all times. The last book, The Lonesome Gods, was quite big and he held you with a great story. You were really into the characters and their personalities. In this book the characters aren't developed quite as well because of the length but a fairly good job was still done simply because Lamour is a good author and that is one thing he really excels at. I was first attracted to the book because of the author and then the cover really grabbed me. It was quite bright and was a beautiful sunset picture with a lonely cactus in it. It is a story about a man named Rafe Cardac, who saves this lady from having her land taken over by this big cattle baron. It is sort of your typical knight in shining armor story but set in the west. Despite this it was still really interesting and kept me thoroughly engaged. One thing I wonder though is why doesn't she believe him, why does she continually believe the cattle baron even when the cattle baron is so obviously after her land and does not truly care for her? Why does Rafe continually put himself in danger to try to save her from the cattle baron when she herself is fighting him? Why doesn't he just let her be and let her live with her mistakes? I suppose this is because it wouldn't make much of a story then and it wouldn't be very interesting. I can't really connect to Rafe because I have never been in that situation where you have to save someone from themselves but I can imagine it would be tough to keep on trying to help even when you knew they didn't want you too. Either way it made for an interesting read that I really enjoyed