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Title: Boone's Lick : A Novel by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0-671-04058-8 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.3 (43 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Western Adventure Story
Comment: McMurtry's latest story is a return to what he does best; tell good western tales. Told from the perspective of fifteen-year-old Shay Cecil, this story is about a family's adventure from Missouri to Wyoming a few years following the Civil War. The Cecil family is poor and they barely make ends meet while living in a poor town called Boone's Lick, Missouri. Shay's father had gone west and has failed to return after 14 months. This prompts Shay's mother to pack up the family and head west to see what is holding him up.
Their journey isn't without danger. Raids by warmongering Indians, wild animals and the weather pose constant threats as the Cecil family goes through Kansas and Nebraska. Along the way, they pick up several colorful characters that help the family journey westward. When the family finally reaches the forts of Wyoming and their father, they realize that their father is living a double life, which poses turmoil to Shay and his mother.
McMurtry's ability to tell a solid western tale is alive and well. While the book doesn't have the depth of Lonesome Dove, it is very entertaining. I found it very hard to put down and in fact I read it in a day. While some of the events that occur left me feeling skeptical about their chances of happening, McMurtry's ability to make the reader care for his characters make this book work. Fans of McMurtry will not be disappointed.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Nice Romp In The Saddle
Comment: With his clever eye for detail and unerring ear for great dialogue, Larry McMurtry makes a welcomed return to his roots in this fine little book. Told from the perspective of its 15 year old hero, this terse Western tale brought to mine richer, more emotionally satisfying work, from the likes of Chaucer and Shakespeare. Yet on its own terms, "Boone's Lick" is a sly, often funny, look at the West in the late 1860's. Having not read "Lonesome Dove", it is impossible for me to compare this to his earlier, critically acclaimed work. Yet I found it quite captivating, showing McMurtry's great love of the West and the strong empathy he feels towards its aboriginal peoples. Anyone who thinks the Western as a literary form has run its course should read McMurtry's tome.
Rating: 4
Summary: enjoyable short novel of the West
Comment: This was a very easy book to read which is something that can be said about most of what Larry McMurtry has written. It is a story of a teenage boy at a time shortly after the Civil War. He has some adventures in his Missouri hamlet before his mother has the family take off for Wyoming in search of her husband. There are a number of characters that weave in and out of the story but the focus is on the family. Fortunately, there are not any of the bizarre characters that we have come to expect in McMurtry's latter works. Most of the characters are fairly normal and interesting. In fact, the book reads like a reminiscence written from years later. It seems like a cross between "I Remember Mama" and "My Life on the Plains". Something is happening all the time in this book. I started worrying as I got near the end because I was sure I would run out of pages before I finished the story. There is a lot here that the author could have fleshed out some more. However, the brevity that leaves us wanting more is always preferable to the opposite. For a minimal investment of time, this is a good way to spend an afternoon.
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Title: The Wandering Hill : The Berrybender Narratives, Book 2 by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0743451422 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Sin Killer : The Berrybender Narrative, Book 1 by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0743451414 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: By Sorrow's River : The Berrybender Narratives, Book 3 by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0743233042 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0671753800 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0671020641 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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