It's not often I'm truly disappointed in a book, but Riders of the Purple Sage was a pretty bad book. It is an outdated, corny, underdeveloped, old-fashioned, and frankly pointless book that I was quite frankly mad at having to finish. If this is Zane Gray's most highly acclaimed book then count me out for any more. I think I need to pick up Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove and re-read it just to purge my literary palette. I've got some other Westerns on my to-read list at the moment, please let them be better than Riders of the Purple Sage!