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Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove)
by: Larry McMurtry |
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780671020644 ISBN: 0671020641 Label: Pocket Manufacturer: Pocket Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 816 Publication Date: June 01, 1998 Publisher: Pocket Studio: Pocket
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  - Excellent product and serviceI ordered the Lonesome Dove series of books by Larry McMurtry from Amazon and as usual the product was great, the packaging was excellent and the service prompt. I was very pleased with everything. Thanks! Rating:  - Ignore Gus and Call, the best parts lie elsewhereThis book is divided into 3 parts, the first two of which cover a series of events resulting in Gus and Call's completion of their first mission as captains. Book 3 begins several years later and meanders through a wrap up of sorts, with one last adventure at the end. This kind of creates a splotchy pattern where the stories don't have a central connecting point and tend to kind of drift. Most will read this book because it covers the time before "Lonesome Dove" when Gus and Call and the boys are Texas Rangers. As it is though, Gus and Call's roles in the story are not satisfying and really seem kind of pointless. We never see them win any great battles or do much to earn the fame alluded to in Lonesome Dove, nor do we get much info on how they developed their great skills as displayed in Lonesome Dove. Their relationships with Maggie and Clara are basically what would have been expected by someone who's read Lonesome Dove, and Gus's 2 marriages are hardly touched on. The few good nuggets come from a handful of conversations between the two, which take a very different tone than those of "Lonesome Dove," and help to explain how they ended up spending so much of their lives together. The other major characters of the story, however, are everything they should be. The Stories of Inish Scull, Kicking Wolf, Ahumado, Buffalo Hump, Blue Duck, and Famous Shoes are well written and insightful. The Indians are particularly compelling, and I found myself siding with Buffalo Hump and Kicking Wolf as often as I did with the Texans. Overall, Gus and Call could almost have been written out of the story. It would have been slimmer and it would have been easier to focus on the real stars of the story. The ultimate result is a story that has wonderful high points but breaks apart because it spends too much time covering repetitive side stories for the sake of mentioning certain people's names. Rating: - Good prequelA story that covers an era in the west that is not well covered by other authors, the same could be said for his other prequel, "Dead Man's Walk." I love the human writing of this author, where characters are portrayed in a more human fashion with both the beauty and the warts, the inherent goodness and the fatal flaws that are an integral part of real people. Rating: - Gus & CallJust finished Comanche Moon, a colorful tale of wild adventure out in the old west. A few really great characters in this book. Cowboys, Indians, Bandits, Whores....the wild west of the 1800's. I'm just a huge fan of this genre, looking forward to more of the same. Rating: - Good as usual!!!I love reading books by Larry McMurtry. I read all of the Lonesome Dove books and this one is very good too. Too bad it had to end. I'm sorry to say that the TV movie that came out about Camanche Moon was just terrible. Read the book........ |
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