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Summary: An emotional roller-coaster to say the least...
Review: Having been a huge fan of westerns since I was 10 years old (I started off on "The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance", and was then weaned onto "Shane" and "True Grit"), I must say that both the book and the movie are the best I have ever had the emense pleasure of experiencing.From the beginning the reader is drawn into this world of bygone times, where ranch hands and gamblers, gun fighters and prostitutes are the day's fare. All of the characters are beyond realistic. You feel like their personal friend. And the setting is richly painted by the author. Whether the cast be in Texas or Nebraska, Colorado or Montana McMurtry really does a fine job bringing to life the hard surroundings and down right dirtiness of the old west. I almost felt like I was riding side by side with Call and Gus. The emotions that the author evokes during the course of this story are enough to make one think they have a bi-polar disorder. I laughed until my belly ached, and cried until I didn't have any kleenex left. The story is profoundly sad on many levels, but the reader feels very vindicated in having spent so much time reading such a wonderful work. This story is immortal. Nothing can ever top it.
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Summary: It's great!
Review: If you are reading this right now, the best advice I can give you is to just read Lonesome Dove. It is one of the very few, best books I've read in my life. Personally, the first 50 pages or so were kind of painful for me probably because I am not used to reading a lot, but later you will know that it is completely worth it. READ IT, if you are a person who wants to put down a book after finishing it and have that enriching, amazing, overpowering feeling inside you! It's about cowboys, but really, it's about human lives.
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Summary: The best of American West!
Review: Lonesome Dove brings a unique view of the American West. A must-read!!
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Summary: Possibly the best book I've ever read!!
Review: After seeing the movie, I had to learn more about the characters. Larry McMurtry brought life to a rather dull way of living in the west back then. Knowing the way the movie ended, I didn't want to read the last few pages of the book. I didn't want it to end. I've read the sequel and was very disappointed. It wasn't what I would have wanted to happen. This is my first review and the only one I felt necessary to write. Thank you Larry.
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Summary: A magnificent novel -- and fantastically well read
Review: You can consult other reviewers of the novel for assessments of its tremendous power to move readers. I agree with these enthusiastic readers -- it is a wonderful book. Astonishingly, this audio performance is equal to the novel. Lee Horsley (an actor I have not heard of) has an extraordinary ability to create living, talking, breathing (and consistent!) characters out of McMurtry's splendid prose. Much of the narration consists of internal monologue and conversation, and Horsley puts real life into the characters. I have listened to dozens of books read. This performance is, without doubt, the best I have yet heard.
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Summary: One of the two best I've ever read
Review: Lonesome Dove rivals Richard Russo's The Risk Pool as the best book I've ever read. The reason for this is wonderful characterization. Irascible reprobates notwihstanding, you have to love Gus and Sam Hall (from Risk Pool ) because the authors imbue them with so much humanity. Go ahead, read The Risk Pool and give me your vote for the most endearing.
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Summary: this novel is an epic because of its two legendary heroes.
Review: lonesome dove is about the American West and those who peopled it. It is a prose "love poem" to the West. I have taught this novel and my students loved it.
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Summary: Quite simply... Achingly Beautiful...Noble...Human..Timeless
Review: This novel exceeds in character depth , beauty of language,and historical resonance like no other I have ever read .Incomparable.Some may attempt to feel American; some may come close..........but this is, unquestionably, the finest novel written by an American, about Americans,(ideal, imperfect,heroic, and oh so gracefully flawed) as one can ever hope to dream of reading.......This book is my restful dream, my hot summer night, my broken heart, my bullet-proof vision, and the reason my first born son will bear the name Augustus...
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Summary: Unsurpassed
Review: McMurtry, here, has demonstrated perfectly his ability to get into the minds of all Americans of that time period (yep, including prostitutes and murderers) and has shed a new light on the myth of the American West. "Lonesome Dove" is a lyric soap opera about the basic goods and bads of humanity, and the always-present chance of redemption. It's characters are full-blooded and honest, the writing compelling and aware, and the action remarkably portrayed. As for westerns, "Lonesome Dove" is the best ever.
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Summary: It kept me interested.
Review: I'm not a big western fan, but I really liked this book. The characters were interesting and the writing was very good. A nice summer book.
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