Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove

Pros: stories and characters woven together very well; descriptive passages;

Cons: wee bit of a slow start

The Bottom Line: The bottom line is practicing its lasso technique

Review: Recently, I finished a book and went to get the next one in my library stack when -gasp- I realized my library stack was gone. Remembering that when we moved the year before, we left almost 50 boxes of books unopened in the basement, I asked Z to go get ...

Pros: Beautifully written, with realistic characters and fascinating plots and subplots.

Cons: None.

The Bottom Line: Every page crammed with beautifully descriptive passages, intensely emotional situations, fast-paced action, and wonderfully drawn characters.

Review: Well, folks, I have a little confession to make. This year I have not been keeping up with my reading as well as I did last year. By this time in 2000, I had read 16 books, totaling over 8,900 pages. This year to date, I’ve read only 8 books totaling...

Pros: Well-defined characters, humor

Cons: None

The Bottom Line: Memorable characters and a good story

Review: When does 945 pages take no time at all? When you're reading Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove. Fro ...

Pros: good characters, extensive details give amazing realness to the story

Cons: long

The Bottom Line: McMurtry brings life to these characters and ropes us into caring about them. Excellent book without a spot that you can skip over.

Review: Lonesome Dove can be real intimidating when you first pick it up to read. The paperback version logs in at 945 pages. To me, it is worth reading every single one of those pages. In our culture, both on the silver screen and small ...

Pros: Character driven novel that has it all....drama...humor...suspense...and intrigue. What a book!

Cons: The characters become like family...and its tough when it ends....you want it to go on and on

Review: Lonesome Dove....hmmmm...you've heard about it, huh? A mini-series several years ago starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall. But for many viewers, they never had the distinct PLEASURE of reading the novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry....

Pros: excellent story, riveting, cant put it down

Cons: none

The Bottom Line: I would recommend this book to anyone who ever dreamed of being a real cowboy. It shows you what it is to truly be a cow-boy.

Review: This is the most wonderful book I have ever read. I love the age of the cowboys and the cattle drives! Since I was born almost 150 years too late, if I want go there I just pick up my worn out paperback of Lonesome Dove and I'm back there. I have read...

Pros: A great epic!

Cons: Long, over 1,000 pages

Review: I don't usually like westerns, and I have no idea what possessed me to buy a copy of "Lonesome Dove" at the bookstore one day. I think that I had been having a bad week, and I wanted a long book to sort of lose myself in for awhile. At 1,000+...

Pros: Moving, realistic, honest characters draw you into the story.

Cons: It might be considered a little lengthy by light weight readers.

The Bottom Line: When you love the story and characters so much that you're sad that you've finished reading it, then that's a good book.

Review: This is a story that draws the reader into it with imagery, and grandness of scale that is seldom written. If you don't come to emotionally invest in each character, you have no soul. Every character is real and grabs your heart and your passion. You...

Pros: funny, exciting, engagin

Cons: not interesting to kids

Review: Literary history may prove this to be on e of the greatest pieces of work ever produced in the English language. Larry McMurtry's novel of two "mature" Texas Rangers transcend the Western genre and enters into the realm of human interest....

Pros: Everything. Gun fights, Heroes

Cons: None

Review: This is the most incredible book I have read in a long long time. Larry McMurtry captures the essence of the old west in this gripping novel. Once I picked it up I could not put it down, the images of early Texas, and the life of the late 1800's were...