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Title: Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0-671-53746-6 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (48 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a brilliant, painful book
Comment: Streets of Laredo is a great book. McMurtry shows, from the first page, something few writers ever show: His characters are human. They die. Gus died in Lonesome Dove, and Newt and July also died at the beginning of Streets of Laredo. Now besides Call, these two were my favorite characters, and when I read that they died on the same page, I neraly put the book in the trash. Then I realized something: McMurtry is honest. He doens't care if we want Call to claim Newt, or July to live happily ever after with his son Martin, or for people to understand the pain and sorrow Call keeps hidden from the world (my own personal opinions) He shows us that life is violent, sad, and ironic. The biggest irony is that the very horse Call gave his son (come on, we all know he is by now) is what killed him. McMurtry makes us realize that no one ever lives happily ever after the way they want to. Just a quick note: Although I love the series of Lonesome Dove and rather frantically read through every book numerous times, sometimes I wish McMurtry had just left it at Lonesome Dove. At least then everyone could pretend that maybe, just maybe, someone in the book could live happily ever after.
Rating: 5
Summary: Streets of Laredo....excellence
Comment: No author quite like McMurphy has dealt such memorable characters that you enjoy following them book after book. With Lonesome Dove, his well-deserved Pulitzer Prizer winning novel, he introduced us to an outfit in the West who, in nine-hundred pages, are planning to ranch cattle in Montana (was it Montana, though? I forget). We were introduced to the whole Hat Creek Outfit and fell into understanding w/ the old yet undiminished friendship between Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call. A lot happened in the novel and I was left w/ that rush, a rush that only comes when I complete a novel so grand and so moving that I'm almost regretful to place it on my finished list. Well, I was left w/ the same feeling after this novel. The characters, man, are excellent. The book is not as long as its predecessor, you should know, yet McMurtry boasts such lively, illuminating scenes, and harbors equally lively, illuminating characters within its pages. Joey Garza and his mother Maria alone are reason enough to read this novel. Call, Lorena, and Pea Eye return and it makes you feel sad yet proud at how they turned out (Call's now an old man, fight is almost out of him; Pea Eye realizes he can't keep going out to help the Captain because he now has a family with Lorena; and Lorena is now an educated, strong mother and wife... reminds you of Clara Allen). What I really love about McMurtry's novel is that it doesn't always end happily... a lot of death, a lot of violence, a lot of unresolved matters. I won't say what they are because I think Lonesome Dove fans should give it a chance... it's a prize!!!
Rating: 3
Summary: Good story, but not great writing---there is a difference
Comment: First, am I mistaken or is Famous Shoes really heading north to find the place ducks and geese breed in the winter? The book seems to clearly state that fall had come, along with the snows, and the birds were flying north above him when he was forced to turn back because of the cold. He was apparently still making his way back home (south) in the spring when he saw the ducks and birds flying south. Have I misunderstood something?
I read the 4 volumes of Lonesome Dove because a writer I like very much, Thomas McGuane, was said to be reminiscent of McMurtry on the back of one of McGuane's books----an effort to sell more books apparently. In addition to being angered by a rather insulting "compliment" to Mr. McGuane (no matter whom he was being compared to), I suspected that the two writers couldn't be more different just from what I had heard about Mr. McMurtry and I had to see for myself.
I have to admit that I became hooked on the Lonesome Dove tetralogy (sp)---it was a good story from an entertainment point of view, perhaps something like "Gone with the Wind" is. It was like watching an entertaining TV show. McMurtry (these are the only books of his I have read), is far from being a master in the use of language, however. Events in the story are not necessarily predictable, but the language certainly is. The behavior of the characters is inexplicable and they are one-, or at most two-, dimensional. They just are the way they are. I think that telling a good tale is something worth doing and these volumes make up a pretty good tale. But telling a good tale is not the same as being a great writer and there are people who can do both.
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Title:Lonesome Dove Collection (Lonesome Dove/Streets of Laredo/Dead Man's Walk) ASIN: B000060MUB Publisher: Artisan Pub. Date: 09 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $29.99 |
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Title: The Wandering Hill : A Novel by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0743233034 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title:Return to Lonesome Dove ASIN: B00008RV0B Publisher: Artisan Pub. Date: 20 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $12.99 |
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Title:Lonesome Dove ASIN: B00005Y6YB Publisher: Artisan Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $11.24 |
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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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