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Summary: a fitting end to a well loved trilogy
Review: Living in the area that McMurtry hails from and writes about in the Duane Moore trilogy has made me a bit biased in regards to this series. I never-the-less found each of the books in this series to be entertaining and well written. This last book has given a fitting end to characters that we have come to love and feel for. The characters each have traits that many of us can relate too. Duanes depression and Karla's attempts to understand and the reaction of the children and grandchildren all combine to make this a wonderful story. And even if you don't find it to be a story that you would want to reread in the future, it will definately make you realize that no matter how hard to live with your own kids are, that they are not so bad compared with Duane and Karla's kids and grandkids.
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Summary: The book gets worse and worse.
Review: I've read and enjoyed most of McMurtry's books but found this one quite disappointing. The beginning was wonderful but about halfway through, the book turns into a boring and oversimplified advertisement for the magic of psychoanalysis.Bob Ray
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Summary: I didn't want it to end.
Review: How often does one laugh outloud when reading a book? I thought this was a delightful picture of a man in his early 60s who stops to figure out his life, only life doesn't exactly cooperate.
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Summary: Loved the first two in the series but not the last
Review: I have read many books by this author. I enjoyed the characters and how they interacted with others. The last book in the "Lonesome Dove" series and this one are both no fun and this is one of the reasons I read them. Just coming to the conclussion that old age sucks seems too easy with no real depth. Duanes interaction with his wife and his friends are absent from this book and I really don't care about the doctor's character at all. I would have been more interested in how he and his peers handle old age together.
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Summary: Read the entire trilogy.
Review: Another great novel by a master craftsman. Read "The Last Picture Show" and "Texasville" first, and you will want to read this one cover to cover without putting it down. I would highly recommend it to any male who grew up in the fifties, as there is much to identify with.
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Summary: Deja vu - Lonesome Dove
Review: Is it just me, or does anyone else see Duane as a modern version of Woodrow Call? I can imagine Woodrow doing everything Duane does, saying everything Duane says, and thinking everything Duane thinks. Even Duane's task of reading Proust mirrors Woodrow's hauling Gus back to Texas. I was also disappointed in that so many of Duane's acquaintances are eccentrics. Pervasive eccentricity is believable in the context of frontier Texas; it is not in modern America. And finally, Woodrow/Duane just aren't interesting without Gus. "Duane's Depressed" lacks a Gus.
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Summary: deep into our hearts
Review: I followed Duane through Texasville and the Last Picture Show. This novel gets into the deep parts of a mans mind. he is neither good nor bad ,he just is. I enjoyed this novel, I felt I was right there with Duane and Karla. his best novel so far to me. i enjoyed the depth of this novel.
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Summary: It made me Laugh and It made me cry.
Review: Best book I have read this year
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Summary: I really, really liked this book....
Review: I haven't read anything by McMurtry...I tried to get past page 50 of "Lonesome Dove" a dozen times,without success. However, the jacket notes of this book intrigued me and I jumped in. I'm glad I did, too! This is a book for anyone who has thought about the meaning of life; who has been depressed; who has lived with someone with depression; who has made it to 50; who has lost someone they love; who has not quite lived up to their teen-age reputations. In other words, this is a book that anyone over 40 can relate to...you don't have to be male to understand Duane's desperation or despondency. I gave this book to my spouse to read...hope he finds as much enjoyment and enlightenment as I did. A great read and well worth my precious spare time.
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Summary: The "reality" is shattered
Review: "The Last Picture Show" is one of my favorite novels -- and "Texasville" is an engaging sequel. The characters were vividly drawn and seemed to occupy a realistic parallel Texas. The appearance of "Duane's Depressed" took me by happy surprise because I have been eager to know what became of Duane, Karla, Jacy, and Sonny. As usual, McMurtry writes with heart and insight in the most direct, meaningful prose. But my jaw dropped in disbelief. McMurtry implies that the character Duane Moore has enjoyed the novel and miniseries of "Lonesome Dove," which puts him in the same universe in which "Last Picture Show" and "Texasville" were written and filmed. So Duane Moore would have to know that he is Larry McMurtry's creation. For me this really undoes the drama -- it is too clever by far and leaves a disappointing footnote to some of the most wonderful characters in contemporary fiction.
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