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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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Thanks, Broadway street-book dude. Cowboys telling fart jokes and falling in love with sullen whores are EXACTLY what I want to read about right now.
Warning: This book will destroy you. I have never been so completely and utterly decimated by a novel. I don't need a book club; I need a support group.
On a side note: Maybe these are fightin' words, and I only ever read Blood Meridian, but I'll take McMurtry over McCarthy any day of the week. No Faulknerian pretensions, no torture-porn, no dogged insistence upon rendering the West as a nightmare-landscape of irredeemable violence and sorrow. McMurtry paints the West in more colors than red, creating a world as tawdry, savage, absurd, and beautiful as the Texas of my own memory.
Warning: This book will destroy you. I have never been so completely and utterly decimated by a novel. I don't need a book club; I need a support group.
On a side note: Maybe these are fightin' words, and I only ever read Blood Meridian, but I'll take McMurtry over McCarthy any day of the week. No Faulknerian pretensions, no torture-porn, no dogged insistence upon rendering the West as a nightmare-landscape of irredeemable violence and sorrow. McMurtry paints the West in more colors than red, creating a world as tawdry, savage, absurd, and beautiful as the Texas of my own memory.
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May 27, 2008
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Jun 02, 2008 02:03PM
god, i miss those dudes.
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McMurtry wrote two great books: The Last Picture Show and Lonesome Dove. All the rest are regurgitated drivel in need of a good editor. McMurtry must get paid by the word (read his bad stuff and you'll see that he says the same thing in three or four different ways without adding anything). Sorry, but McCarthy is a much more consistent great writer. (Are these "fightin' words"?)
Sign me up for the support group.
sorry...for my money Cormac is better:more interesting and more realistic.
Absolutely. I just finished the novel and I feel exactly the same. I just wanted a book about old cowboys and feisty whores and this is so much more. Painful! If you set up that support group please let me know! You're spot on.
I've only read one McMurtry book vs three McCarthy books, but with the exception of "The Road", I'll also take McMurtry any day of the week. "Lonesome Dove" is what all books in the Western genre should aspire to.
I'll take McMurtry over McCarthy any day of the week - absolutely. No doubt about it! I don't understand why they always get compared - I personally find it torture reading McCarthy - I'd rather get scalped by one of McMurtry's Indians!
