Ok the truth is I haven't read every great American novel but I've read many. This book is good not only in a literally snobbish way that most people hate. This book is great in how readable...
I am a student of the American West with advanced degrees in History and Anthropology. I am also a prolific reader. I'm sorry, but this book is just..welll, awful!
I don't think this book deserves all the rave reviews and awards that have been assigned to it but I did like it. Its a very long book, close to 900 pages, but its a fairly quick and easy read in...
As far as short stories go BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, at 64 pages, is one of the best. Not a traditional Western, but rather a more modern (1960s through 1980s) story of two young rodeo cowboys who fall...
I had to purchase this book for a college course, otherwise I probably would never have read it. I found it boring and realized that it's probably better suited for either men who like cowboy...
It was fun and exciting to learn how the story was created and translated to film. The essays all of the creators wrote inspired me to know all I could on creating a beautiful movie. The story is...
Thoroughly Modern...Nellie- A Modern Man Looks At The Old West
This is something of an encore by the reviewer of the work of Texas writer, bibliophile, pack rat and Old West aficionado Larry McMurtry. This space is strewn with reviews of his work, good and...
I love McMurtry's writing--I feel that "Lonesome Dove" will go down in history as one of the great American novels.But this novel just doesn't make it.You keep anticipating and hoping for something...
I adore McMurty's westerns, and having read and enjoyed "Sin Killer", I promised myself to read more of the Berrybender series, and now, several years later, have read the second of the four books....
This is quite a vivid depiction of life on the frontier and the contrast between the wealthy, spoiled Europeans, the frontier men who fed and protected the Europeans and the Indians. The character...
Unlike some of McMurtry's other books, which often present events objectively with a kind of emotional disconnect that makes the reactions of the people seem cavalier, By Sorrow's River reaches an...
Although much fun to read, as were the first two books in the Berrybender Narratives, "By Sorrow's River" is the weakest link. Maybe because there is less action and more introspection, namely,...
This book is the third in the Berrybender series and hopefully the last. I can hardly believe that the same man who wrote Lonesome Dove wrote this loser! Did he hire a ghost writer to do this mess?...
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