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Summary: The best western story ever told.
Review: I saw the movie before I herd the audio book. I still can not decide on the one I like the best. Lee Horsley is the best Western reader I have ever heard. He brings the book to life as well as the movie did.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: I am not a great fan of Westerns, but this book is simply a masterpiece in both style and content.
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Summary: It's a fixture in my library.
Review: What is there not to love about the Hat Creek bunch, except that some of them had the misfortune to live on through the Streets of Laredo. I do love most of the tales of the series, although McMurtry does range out into the rather strange with some of his characters.It is disconcerting to me though, to run across some of the errors in the author's own history. I was under the impression that Maggie had dies in Austin, not Lonesome Dove, for example. There are quite a few examples of errors like that. But, I hope the gap between Comanche Moon and Lonesome Dove will be filled in.
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Summary: a grand ol' yarn
Review: I have written a review on this book before, but enough cannot be said for the amazing writing talents of Mr. McMurtry. I am quite an avid reader and still, as of yet, have not found a book that holds the attention and imagination of the reader as Lonesome Dove can do. The characters are so believeable and so convincing that you find yourself drawn into the world of the old west. I have read and reread, worn thin loaned to, and never returned, my copies of this book. It is almost time for me to open the covers of this book again. In short, if you are in for some very good rainy day reading, or just want to get away, this book will not want to be put down until you are through with it; And then you will want to start it again.
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Summary: My all time favorite
Review: I had no desire to read a "cowboy book", but after a recommendation from a trusted fellow reader and the obvious recommendation of the Pulitzer prize, I started this book. Trudged thru the first few chapters, as bored as the characters were with their life in Texas. But when that drive started, I was hooked. And absolutely devastated at the finish when I knew there was no more to read!!! I first read it in 1988 and it is STILL my favorite book of all time and one I recommend to everyone I know. You will never regret the time spent. I agree with the fellow reviewer who stated that they wished they could read it again for the first time!
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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: This book shows what two former Texas Rangers would do for a cattle drive to Montana. Texas Rangers W.F. Call & Augusts McCrae are two head stong people who love a challenge. Call, McCrae and their company do an impossible job to get a cattle herd to another state.
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Summary: ONE OF THREE BOOKS YOU SHOULD HAVE ON A DESERTED ISLAND!
Review: I think I am alone in my disapproval of the mini-series starring Duvall and Jones. I wanted desperately for my wife to read this, and she couldn't...she didn't have the time. Yet, I wanted her to experience it. So, I rented the video. What a dissapointment! I turned it off after thirty minutes. No disrespect to the director or stars, however. I feel that this is a story that MUST be experienced through reading. I must thank the Pulitzer comittee, however, because I would never have been interested in this book, had I not been intrigued in their choosing what I had always mistaken as a corny love story. This will definitely go on my list of three best books to have on a desert island because it lingers with you for so long and you become part of the characters' lives. The other is "Owen Meany" by Irving... Any suggestions for a third?..........
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Summary: AMAZING... ONE OF THIS 16 YR. OLD'S BEST READS : )
Review: I must admit that while rummaging through the shelf in the bookstore in search of a book that would be excellent and would linger long in my memory several months ago, I never realized that I would confront a novel THIS excellent that has linged THIS long in my memory. MAN, I never dreamed a sixteen year old kid like me would ever discover interest in the novel but I was definitely wrong. Larry McMurtry is an EXCELLENT writer who can probe into his characters like no other. He is very intimate with them, so intimate that you sympathize their failures, their tragedies, their unhappiness with having things in their life unsorted. And you also grin at their moments of happiness and sigh in relief as each character overcomes something. In the first several pages, I could sense the age old relationship divided between Gus and Call, a relationship that is youthful and unlike that I've ever read in a novel. They depend on each other in peculiar ways and it's their idiosyncrasies that make them more and more interesting as each page turns. The supporting characters are equally brilliant and McMurtry will definitely have you WELL acquainted with them. Look at that, I've talked my mouth off on JUST the characters (truthfully, I'm not half done with my review on them). The story itself is brilliant and McMurtry's description is beautiful, making you feel that rugged Western air, the air conveying the violence and struggles, the air these men and women were used to and probably could not live without. I don't know how it affected others but it put me into an equilibrium in the mind, showing me that old people can still have that sense of humor with a soul just as sprightly as any youngster and that it's wrong to criticize people without knowing their full background. It also showed me the lives of other people in a different area... as was concisely put, "What we lived, they dreamed; what we dreamed, they lived." Or is it the other way around? THIS NOVEL EMANATES A SERIES OF EMOTIONS; it is melancholy, funny, ironic, and downright enjoyable. It shows that there are hardships in life and some are so hard that if you take too long, you may never be able to overcome them (I.E. Call's refusal to tell Newt the truth by the end of the novel). If you want to talk about the novel, just IM me. It's one of my faves. Thanks for your time...
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ
Review: I really can't say more than that! If I could give it TEN stars, I would. I was obsessed with this book! I read it continuously. The characters are so enjoyable. I just became so attached to them! I feel like Gus and Call are my best friends! McMurtry is a fabulous writer. I was given this book as a gift and it was the best gift to date! I would never have picked up a western otherwise. But this book is so much more than a western. It has love, brotherhood, adventure and intrigue. It has something for every reader. I am trying to wait before I read it again, but it is becoming increasingly more difficult!
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Summary: a romantic adventure that never left me bored
Review: if you read or see any typical western, it will glorify the west and the people who won it, but this book shows how it really was. insects disease friends dying indians attacking and yet this book almost makes the tragedy of the west seem romantic. it leaves you spellbound i found myself staying up past 2:15 in the morning just to finish it and i have to say i was never dissapointed. this book has you laughing one minute and crying the next, with many unexpected turns. sometimes just the description of blue duck made my blood run cold. This is my all time favourite book, beating out les miserables by a long shot id recommend it to all young and old
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