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    Destry Rides Again
    Destry Rides Again
    Destry Rides Again
    Audiobook9 hours

    Destry Rides Again

    Written by Max Brand

    Narrated by J.P. O'Shaughnessy

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    Made in 1939, the Golden Year of Hollywood, Destry Rides Again helped launch Jimmy Stewart's career and made Marlene Dietrich an American icon. Harry Destry was a roughandtumble fighter who never lost a battle. But after six years in jail for a robbery he didn't commit, he comes back a changed man. The townsfolk believe he's beaten. They think all the fight's gone right out of him. And that's exactly what Destry wants them to think. Because that's the way he alone will serve justice to the twelve men who framed him.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateSep 15, 2009
    ISBN9781605484907
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    Max Brand

    Max Brand® (1892–1944) is the best-known pen name of widely acclaimed author Frederick Faust, creator of Destry, Dr. Kildare, and other beloved fictional characters. Orphaned at an early age, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He became one of the most prolific writers of our time but abandoned writing at age fifty-one to become a war correspondent in World War II, where he was killed while serving in Italy.

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    • 5/5
      Great book I loved it you should read this book
    • 3/5
      OK Western. Not as humorous as the old movie with Jimmy Stewart but still good.
    • 2/5
      It's hard to choose, but I'd say Brand is a slightly more engaging writer than Western favorites Owen Wister, Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour, but if so, not by much. This is pulp writing, with way too many exclamation points trying to punch up cliched phrases and purple prose. The story focuses on Harry Destry--even he describes himself as "a waster, a lazy loafer, a fighter." What he comes across to me is a thug, happy to find any excuse to use his fists--and this is our hero.He's framed for a train robbery and sent to prison for six years and returns to the town of Wham a seemingly changed man. Notably, he won't be baited into a fight. So his fiance, who waited six years for him wants to break the engagement, because, she says, "He's not a man." Man = schoolyard bully. So, the rest of the book is about the revenge he takes on those who put him into prison. It's predictable, painful and an insult to a reader's intelligence. And it has no resemblance to the classic film of the name with Jimmy Stewart other than the title.