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Summary: All my Friends are Going to be Strangers
Review: "All my Friends are going to be Strangers", written by Larry McMurtry, published in March 1972, was an outstanding book. The main character, Danny, was fabulous and exciting. McMurtry always has you flipping to the next page. Danny is looking for his life and it takes many road trips to find it. On one of these road trips many crazy things happen and you will be hooked after the first ten pages. My favorite thing about this book is how McMurtry let's you see what Danny's thinking; I always want to hear what he is going to think next. Another highlight is how he can't keep his pant's zipped up with every woman that he meets. There are other great characters in the story such as the first woman that steps into his life named Sally. Sally is a real jerk and uses Danny for just about every thing a man has. Then you find out the rest. Don't be expecting the happiest of endings either. This is no ordinary McMurtry book. He out did himself with this one. If you like McMurtry's writing I highly recommend this book. If you like realistic books with a little adventure this is the book for you.
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Summary: All my Friends are Going to be Strangers
Review: "All my Friends are going to be Strangers", written by Larry McMurtry, published in March 1972, was an outstanding book. The main character, Danny, was fabulous and exciting. McMurtry always has you flipping to the next page. Danny is looking for his life and it takes many road trips to find it. On one of these road trips many crazy things happen and you will be hooked after the first ten pages. My favorite thing about this book is how McMurtry let's you see what Danny's thinking; I always want to hear what he is going to think next. Another highlight is how he can't keep his pant's zipped up with every woman that he meets. There are other great characters in the story such as the first woman that steps into his life named Sally. Sally is a real jerk and uses Danny for just about every thing a man has. Then you find out the rest. Don't be expecting the happiest of endings either. This is no ordinary McMurtry book. He out did himself with this one. If you like McMurtry's writing I highly recommend this book. If you like realistic books with a little adventure this is the book for you.
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Summary: About life and all the forces that take you to crazy places
Review: Danny Deck is symbolic of the confusion that living life brings to us. I think everybody has wanted to run away at times and Danny does. Danny let's us run away and enjoy the craziness of life and the twists and turns it brings us. You'll feel for Danny and won't want the end to come. My favorite McMurtry read, barely beating out Lonesome Dove.
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Summary: Good 'sixties type searching-for-meaning story.
Review: Danny is an amiable, aimless young writer looking for a life. Superb dialogue. Lots of zaniness, sort of like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Lot of road trips to somewheres. A thread of vague sadness runs through it though.
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Summary: As good as anything written today, probably better
Review: Early McMurtry, 1971, I believe, and the first of his books I ever read. Funny, incredibly funny, I laughed out loud over and over, and then really very sad. A book about the struggle between wanting to have a life and trying to be a writer--or, art vs. life. A brilliant novel, touching, clever, resonant. A MUST READ!!!!!
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Summary: BRILLIANTLY HILARIOUS
Review: Funny and sad, from start to finish. Who wouldn't love Danny Deck, reluctant writer, adrift in the real world, trying to make a go of it as an artist??? Early McMurtry, worth a very serious look, surely this gives some insight into the author's own conflicted beginnings as a writer. LOVED EVERY WORD!!! And the sequel was pretty darn good, too....
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Summary: A Wonderful Piece of Fiction
Review: I adored this book. The characters, especially Danny, are extremely believable and intriguing. This is one of McMurty's best. This book introduces wonderful characters like Danny and Jill, but it also brings us back with Danny's friends, Emma and Flap Horton. I strongly recommend this nostalgic piece of fiction.
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Summary: Stellar start, pathetic finish
Review: I bought this book after reading the first two pages in the bookstore... I was hooked. I thought I was in store for another hilarious, vivid, and relevent McMurtry great. Instead, after about fifty pages I realized that it was simply a silly sex fest. The main charachter's woes are not a result of the impossibility of having a normal life and relationship while being an artist -- no, his problems come from marrying stupidly and being a male slut. He even chooses child molesters as his friends. His final, rapid decline is a direct result of his sleeping with every woman who wanders into the story ... including his best friend's wife. This has nothing to do with being an artist. McMurtry has written much, much better. Try Texasville.
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Summary: What it's like to be a hopeless romantic and a true creative
Review: I enjoyed this book very much. For me, it delves into what it's like to be a creative person in the 'normal' material world. You always feel like an outsider. I identify with this book myself and it is one of my favorites. The book has all the elements of a good book in it, including sex. Without giving any of the plot of the book away, I can say that McMurtry makes some compelling, touching and prolific statements about what it feels like to operate on the fringe, as an observer. What do you hold onto in life as important? What do you let go of? What indeed...
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Summary: mcmurtry is the greatest
Review: i have absolutely no idea why this book is rated 4 stars. I give it 16 stars. like i said, mcmurtry is the greatest. he is an american gift.
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