All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers : A Novel

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Summary: Danny is the model of a promiscuous young college student.
Review: This is my favorite book of all time. I have read it many times b/c it shows truth, and how the world really is. McMurtry doesnt hold back on curse words or sex b/c he knows that a real life Danny certainly would not. The funniest part is the mexican who screws a hole in the ground. Definitely a must read!

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Summary: Texas beatniks of the Sixties
Review: This novel, McMurtry's fourth, is his most tender and charming. Danny Deck is a young, perpetually perplexed writer to whom things seem to inexplicably happen, yet Danny, who narrates the novel, never presents himself as a victim, and McMurtry successfully keeps the novel from becoming sentimental. McMurtry's finest achievement in this novel, however, is his evocation of a Texas no one else has ever written about--the young, academic, urban, sixties generation of Texans. If you didn't believe such a thing existed, this novel will convince you otherwise. That world gives this novel a funky charm (its frank sexual content was somewhat controversial in some circles when it was published.) Look for the usual McMurtry themes and characteristics, including well-drawn women characters and a perverse spin on the "old cattleman" in the character of mean-as-hell, 92 year old Uncle Laredo, who "was obsessed with last things." Chapter Thirteen, which concerns Danny's visit to Uncle Laredo out in Van Horn on his way back from San Francisco, is one of the funniest pieces of writing I've ever read, one of the very few times I've actually laughed out loud reading a book. The book is the first of a trilogy (which years later became a tetralogy, then a quinology, etc.) written in the late sixties and early seventies along with "Moving On" and "Terms of Endearment." It's my favorite of all of McMurtry's novels

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Summary: Rabbit in Tx. ...
Review: Updike wrote an entire sequence of books about Rabbit. McMurtry gave us "All my Friends..." and then "Duane's Depressed", first rate novels both. This one's based on McMurtry's years as a Rice University student. No writer gives the sense of modern Texas like McMurtry.

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Summary: READ THIS BOOK
Review: You can't go wrong. If you are smart and have a sense of humor - you will love this book. It's the story of Danny Deck. Don't read the sequel - "Some Can Whistle". But this book - this book is brilliant.