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Title: Crazy Horse (Penguin Lives) by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0-670-88234-8 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.77 (44 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Good in patches, oddly organized, surprisingly bland.
Comment: I love this guy; Lonesome Dove is one of the most enjoyable novels I've encountered. He wrote about cowboys and Indians with amazing passion and insight. So why is his book on Crazy Horse so dull? Some of the writing is sharp and nicely conversational. But why does it seem like he didn't make an outline? And why must he tell us in every single chapter how little is actually known about CH -- and how All The Other Authors have guessed their way through thousands of pages? It almost seems like his goal is to convince us that CH's life -- about which there is, really, shockingly little in the book -- isn't worth a book. And damned if he doesn't almost convince you. A real shame. Did I just read about the Battle of Little Bighorn, or just Larry McMurtry's essay on how lame all the stuff written about Crazy Horse is?
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good Beginning Book About Crazy Horse, the Man
Comment: Crazy Horse has been puzzled over by genertions of historians. Larry McMurtry gives a sensitive portrait of the great Sioux warrior who became a reluctant leader at the battle of the Little Big Horn. It is a short biography with a wonderful story teller's touch! It's worth the read.
Evelyn Horan - teacher/counselor/author
Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl Books One - Three
Rating: 4
Summary: Very nice quick overview of the whole thing
Comment: This is my first run at Crazy Horse, so I have nothing to compare it to. While McMurchy does an excellent job of giving only the facts, this book was more about the Sioux then of Crazy Horse.
This book is a great overview, but that's it. I would recommend this book as a primer, then maybe some other historical account of his life
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Title: By Sorrow's River : The Berrybender Narratives, Book 3 (MCMURTRY, LARRY) by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0743233042 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Wandering Hill (Berrybender Narratives) by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0743451422 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0940322927 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 09 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Folly and Glory : A Novel (MCMURTRY, LARRY) by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0743233050 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Lords of the Plain : A Novel by Max Crawford ISBN: 0806129085 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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