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Summary: Nope
Review: The reviewer: 'A reader from Pittsburgh', hit the nail on the head. He/she notes-"A weary tale...but what's with all the torture (he seems to relish it)..I couldn't wait for it to end which it did finally with out resolving much." I agree with him\her. It was a depressing book. I'm now reading "Streets of Laredo", it's more like "Lonesome Dove".
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Summary: Powerful story and reader
Review: I've listened to hundreds of audio books, but this is one of my all time favorites. Frank Muller is, if not the best, then the top 1% of audio book readers. The combination of an extremely powerful story and frank muller makes this one of my favorite audio books of all time. I've listened to other McMurtry books, but none were as incredibly written or phenomenally narrated as this story.Note to McMurtry: Continue this powerful style of constant action and drama. Be sure to have Frank Muller read all your work from now on. He *is* the best.
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Summary: a must book for truly avid readers
Review: I have read all of mcmurty's books. He is the type of author that you hate for the story to end. His writing style is so very easy to follow as well as relaxing. In Commanche Moon, Gus, Call are their old usual selves as well as Pea Eye. I truly wish this saga could go on forever. I am an african-american female so it may be surprising to some that our culture also enjoy the old west.
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Summary: Great read, but too many details are wrong
Review: I thought this was a great story. The storys concerning the Comanches were the most compelling to me. I was a little disappointed in the storys regarding the Rangers. They were a little dull in my opinion. After I finished, I was really looking forward to rereading Lonesome Dove, to continue the books in order. However, I have become very annoyed with the little details (well, some not so little)that are not the same from book to book. For example, Jake talks about courting Clara in Lonesome Dove, however she is gone & married in Comanche Moon before he ever would have had a chance. And, in Lonesome Dove, Maggie lived & died there, but in Comanche Moon she lives & dies in Austin. It is distracting to have those kind of discrepencies.
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Summary: Another you rarely hear about
Review: A good yarn, I haven't read his others and ran onto this one at random. Quite lucky as this is a good one. If his others are this good, I'll order them. I thought the movie, that I really like, had some background but this gives it. I really enjoyed the captain that went to Mexico with his big horse to stand vis-a-vis with the brutal indian that has people skinned or thrown into snake pits. Highly recommended if you like this sort of thing.
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Summary: Kept Me Reading
Review: Before writing a review, I enjoy browsing previous reviews of the same book. With as many opinions expressed with Comanche Moon, a majority of folks enjoyed this book. What kept me coming back were the characters. Now, I've read how McMurtry's characters were weak but I didn't see that. Every day after work and on weekends, I anxiously picked up where I left off, to see what adventure lay ahead. This is an easy book to unwind. Very enjoyable...
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Summary: Better than I was expecting!
Review: Having read many of McMurtry's books, including all in the Lonesome Dove series, I was anticipating a let down of sorts. I was pleasantly surprised with Comanche Moon. It developed many of the characters seen in Lonesome Dove, Streets of Laredo, and even Dead Man's Walk. McMurtry's ability to truly explore the characters about whom he writes is superb. His background and description of the villains made them seem very real, and the suffering of their victims was comparable with anything McMurtry's ever done. This was an outstanding book, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who's acquainted with Captains Woodrow F. Call and Augustus McCrae
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Summary: Better than I was expecting!
Review: Having read many of McMurtry's books, including all in the "Lonesome Dove" series, I was anticipating a let down of sorts. I was pleasantly surprised with Comanche Moon. It developed many of the characters seen in Lonesome Dove, Streets of Laredo, and even Dead Man's Walk. McMurtry's ability to truly explore the characters about whom he writes is superb. His background and description of the villains made them seem very real, and the suffering of their victims was comparable with anything McMurtry's ever done. This was an outstanding book, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who's acquainted with Captains Woodrow F. Call and Augustus McCrae
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Summary: Famous last words
Review: Larry McMurtry's mission in Comanche Moon seems to have been to fill in the last space in the complete Lonesome Dove saga. This leads to a problem; if there are a lot of loose ends to tie up, the process may distract the reader from any continuous story thread. Part of the difficulty is that the timeline doesn't work well. Woodrow and Gus, based very, very loosely on Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving, had a self-contained logic of existence in the marvelous first volume, but it was slightly out of kilter with history. Set in 1876 (I base this on the comment ". . . like they just done to Custer"), a backstory had to stretch a long way and stay consistent. Starting with the Dead Man's Walk (which actually happened, vaguely as recounted -- not Sam Houston's most inspired idea) was a natural, but it left a whole life to be filled in, sometimes with ellisions covering years when nothing much happened. But McMurtry is, as always, the master of villainy. The impenetrably -- and pointlessly -- cruel Ahumado is the perfect foe for Inish Scull, and the most absorbing part of the story for me was their silent contest. I think McMurtry knew he needed to write Comanche Moon, if only to complete the cycle. But I think Woodrow Call was speaking for the author in the novel's last line.
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Summary: Weak sequel
Review: Two of the most charming and lovable characthers of Western lore are transformed into a couple of meandering and stumbling saddle tramps in this weak sequel of Lonesome Dove. The premise is absurd. The story is written with a comic book flavor and features a Saturday morning cartoon villian. Where did the inept heroes gain their frontier experience that we read about in Lonesome Dove. Here? In this large comic book? I was not convinced. This story is no good.
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