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The Haunted Mesa
The Haunted Mesa
Author: Louis L'Amour
The Navajo called them the Anasazi: an enigmatic race of southwestern cliff dwellers. For centuries, the sudden disappearance of this proud and noble people has baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter form an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosiv...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780553270228
ISBN-10: 0553270222
Publication Date: 5/1/1988
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 112 ratings
Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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reviewed The Haunted Mesa on + 16 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Very good story, if you like mysteries you will enjoy this book.
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Helpful Score: 2
Suspenseful and ties in with at least one other Louis L'Amour book, The Lonesome Gods.
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Helpful Score: 2
This is the the only book written by Louis L'amour I have ever read, and undoubtedly the strangest while at the same very intriguing.

His writing technique here is not sophisticated. In this book L'amour repeats facts too frequently, as though the reader is stupid. The main character's thoughts are prominent, which isn't necessarily a drawback, but tends to become redundent while other characters, some important to the plot, remain two-dimensional.
yooper14 avatar reviewed The Haunted Mesa on + 2 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This is one of my favorite L'Amour books. (A close second to "Last of the Breed") I've never been much of a sci-fi fan, but this book nearly got me hooked to that genre. It has a definite western flair, with time travel, mystery, history, and suspense all wrapped into one. This is a must for any L'Amour fan!
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Helpful Score: 1
This book was a good mix of western and science fiction as it looked at southwest Native American culture and offered a parallel world explanation on the disappearance of the Anasazi people. I liked the characters and the story, but I sometimes found the plot repetitive, especially Mike's indecision about what he should do. I also would have liked more storyline set in the other world.
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Western. Autographed by the author
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This is a hard cover book.
ffagirl15 avatar reviewed The Haunted Mesa on + 3 more book reviews
Interesting book. Varies from L'Amours typical book setting. I really liked the mixture of western and mystery in this book.
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Wow. Where to begin? Louis L'Amour has NO BUSINESS whatsoever writing a lame-duck "western" with some sci-fi flavor thrown into the mix. I'll admit it, they got me with the premise-- Mike Raglan, a man with experience debunking fraudsters, is contacted by an old friend who goes missing in an alternate world, but because they're talking Native American history and Arizona, I'm thinking it'll be a little more western/spiritual than most of the claptrap masquerading as science-fiction.

Nope. Same old stereotypes:- tech geek in trouble- gorgeous and/or frigid and/or angry women- "Let's go in there guns blazing!"- red herrings that are only red herrings if you're a total idiot- figuring your culture/time has to be more advanced than the one you're visiting, thereby making you WAY smarter (er, no)- allies who are probably from The Dark Side, Luke, so watch yourself.
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A little too mythical for me. I much prefer the standard western stories by the late, talented Louis L'Amour.
emeraldfire avatar reviewed The Haunted Mesa on
The Navajo called them the Anasazi, an enigmatic tribe of southwestern cliff dwellers that disappeared many centuries ago. Their sudden disappearance baffled historians. Summoned to a dark, desolate desert plateau by a letter from an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn in to a world of mystery, violence and mysticism. He will eventually learn the astonishing legacy of the Anasazi, but not without a high cost to himself and his friends.

I did enjoy this book because it definitely started out very mysteriously and strange. However, as I read through it, it began to rely more and more on science fictional elements that I didn't really like all that much. Mareena said that she bought this book for me for Christmas because she thought I might like the mystery and ghostly horror of it. I had never read Louis L'Amour before and I'm certainly glad that I read this book but I generally thought of him more as an author of Westerns. I think that he has a wonderful writing style though. I give this book a strong A!
dbs avatar reviewed The Haunted Mesa on + 329 more book reviews
Unusual L'Amour in that it is contemporary rather than historical, but, of course, set in the west. I enjoyed it.


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