Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
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Author: Larry McMurtryEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1988-12-15
ISBN: 067168390X
Number of pages: 960
Publisher: Pocket
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Book Review: Easily one of the top 20 novels ever written
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like John Wayne movies or Clint Eastwood westerns you'll enjoy Lonesome Dove. Even if you don't like westerns there is a good chance you'll love this book.
I've read the negative reviews posted about how the book isn't politically correct. So what? People are offended by the brutish behavior of the cowboys here. So there are hookers and stereotyped Indian outlaws; who cares? The book is great. Honestly, the characters feel absolutly real.
Gus and Call aren't exactly refined. They are two burned out ex-Texas Rangers looking for a last hurrah by driving cattle from Texas to Montana because they're bored. I get it. They have character flaws; they entertain hookers; they get drunk; they gamble, they steal horses from Mexicans, but that is what makes them come alive. You connect with them on some level, and end up going on the journey with them. When a writer can put you there with the characters and you can see them, hear them, and know them like a close friend he's accomplished something magical.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, and when it's over you'll wish it wasn't. I love this book. 900 pages seems like alot, but you'll be sad when it is over.
Summary of Lonesome Dove
A love story and an epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, Lonesome Dove is a book to make readers laugh, weep, dream and remember. Now a blockbuster television event.Larry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of the American West. The subject of Lonesome Dove, cowboys herding cattle on a great trail-drive, seems like the very stuff of that cliched myth, but McMurtry bravely tackles the task of creating meaningful literature out of it. At first the novel seems the kind of anti-mythic, anti-heroic story one might expect: the main protagonists are a drunken and inarticulate pair of former Texas Rangers turned horse rustlers. Yet when the trail begins, the story picks up an energy and a drive that makes heroes of these men. Their mission may be historically insignificant, or pointless--McMurtry is smart enough to address both possibilities--but there is an undoubted valor in their lives. The result is a historically aware, intelligent, romantic novel of the mythic west that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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