Comanche Moon

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Summary: Frank Muller does it again!
Review: I listen to a lot of audio books, but this was one of the best.. I rate it evenly with the Green Mile by Stephen King in Quality Audio Books... Not only is Larry's style at his best in this book, but it almost seems as though it was written for Frank Muller to read.... Frank Muller is the best of the Audio book world, and this is one of his best of the best... I liked the first 2/3 of the story much more than the last third, but still, overall it was incredible! Larry!!! You must get Frank Muller to read ALL your books!!!

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Summary: Well written, but not a food as Lonesome Dove
Review: In the last novel in the Lonesome Dove saga, Comanche Moon is interesting, but not quite as fascinating or inspirational as the original. I'd still obviously reccomend it if you read any of the others, because it fills in some gaps and puts a satisfying close to the moving saga that has been praised and admired for years. Overall, a good novel but not the best in the series.

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Summary: The characters were great; the plot lazy
Review: While I found COMANCHE MOON very entertaining and a worthwhile read, I have to echo the disappointment expressed by some of the other readers here. I love McMurtry's characterizations and dialogue in all his period novels, but in this book, these vivid characters (Gus, Call, Famous Shoes and especially Inish Scull) were basically wandering around, free of convincing motivation, sent on wild goose chases or foolish errands. They mostly even lacked emotional investment in their missions. The stakes were low. The novel could have been vastly improved if it had ended a little more climactically with the rescue of Scull from Ahumado's camp by Gus & Call; in the book, the rescue has a whiff of anticlimax, as does the actual ending some 200 pages later. We see how good McMurtry can be; LONESOME DOVE is my favorite single book of the last 15 years. In that book, though, there was a quest, a job to do, and a direction for the plot. COMANCHE MOON had the feel of a writer having created these wonderful characters and writing a stream-of-conscious story; no idea where the characters were going, and little interest in how they got there.

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Summary: imaginative and mesmerizing
Review: Over a period of several days, while I should have been doing other things, I stole away to a corner or sacrificed hours of sleep to read this book. Like all of McMurtry's books, it opens up new vistas not hinted at previously, in his work or that of others. He has a way of drawing us into the pictures he paints with a delicate balance between the thoughts and feelings of his characters and their words and actions. This book recreates what its characters call "the Comanche way of life", and uses it to set off the world of the Texas Rangers Gus and Call, who were introduced in earlier books in the Lonesome Dove series. Combined with the first three books in the series, this one gives a completely convincing picture of Gus and Call as mythical heroes of the frontier. What the present book adds to their portrayal is their image in the eyes of the Comanche. The book shows that the formidable Comanche warriors not only learned to respect Gus and Call as fighting men, but could even show a little regret at the thought that Gus and Call would some day fade into the sunset along with themselves. Gus and Call (especially Gus) have become in many ways like the Comanche they fight.

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Summary: Excessive violence
Review: The book is not bad, but the first half has excessively graphic and unnecessary violence and torture. Hardly necessary. It ruined the book.

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Summary: a good read but lacking in some of the details we wanted
Review: I enjoyed this book - I always enjoy L. McMurtrys books. This book gave us some of the details we wanted of Gus and Call's life before Lonesome Dove but just not enough. Clara left the book too soon and I would have liked to hear more about their "exploits" that made them the great Texas Rangers they were supposed to be. I would rate this as #3 on the Lonesome Doves list of books. I did enjoy seeing how Pea Eye, Deets, and Jake Spoon entered the picture. I wish there would be another Lonesome Dove book - I do love the character of Gus McCrae.

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Summary: The book did not meet expectations.
Review: Most readers of this book have probably already read Lonesome Dove, and thus were expecting the legend of Gus and Call to be filled in. It wasn't. How did Gus and Call become known as the greatest Texas Rangers that ever lived? Beats me. It seems all they did was keep from getting killed and bury the bodies of those who were killed. Maybe that was McMurtry's whole intention--to reveal that Gus and Call were really just a couple of overrated Texans. This explains the scene in Lonesome Dove where Gus and Call went into San Antonio to look for a cook, and noticed that no one remembered them. It turns out there was nothing to remember. I almost wish I hadn't read Comanche Moon, because it deflated my impression of Gus and Call significantly.

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Summary: Very Good, I couldn't put it down.
Review: The story picks up about 15 years after Dead Man's Walk and ends about 10 years before Lonesome Dove. Great story, great characters, but it just didn't have the great ending McMurtry usually delivers.

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Summary: Finally, a fitting companion for Lnoesone Dove
Review: An outstanding read. The book, style, and story we hoped we'd get from Larry McMurtry after the Pulitzer Prize winner. Head and shoulders above Streets of Laredo, and better than Dead Man's Walk, Comanche Moon actually re-creates the characters Call and McCray and fills in the huge expanse of time between their near death at the hands of Buffalo Hump and the departure for the Rio Grand. Very satisfying reading, and a novel truly worthy of the classic characters McMurtry created previously. DO NOT MISS THIS ONE !

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Summary: Good read but
Review: Certainly the second best of the four Lonesome Dove books. As reported elsewhere, the typos are distracting, and the research sloppy, but all in all a decent story. I would have loved an translation of Scull's Greek writing