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Summary: Everyone is either rude, copulating, or a witch!!!
Review: I really found this book to be quite fun to read. Call and McCrae's characters seem to be getting better all the time. I would still like to see the final tie-in between this book and Lonesome Dove.I do have a problem with the Indians in this book. The characters seemed to be overly stereotypical and repetitve. All of the indians were either rude, copulating, or considered to be a witch. I found this redundant attitude expressed by McMurtry's Native Americans to be limiting and naive. Like I said, I liked the book, but this really left a sore spot with me.
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Summary: Great story - poor research
Review: Once again, McMurtry is not to be outdone with his representation of the Wild, Wild West. This story is at times implausible, but still a fascinating story. One major complaint is that his story lines do not correlate with other novels. There are many details described in this story that contradict details described in Lonsome Dove. It is frustrating that an author that takes the time to create characters we grow to love, would not take the time to make certain his story line is correct. Still a great read, and a strong recommendation.
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Summary: Sad end to a great saga
Review: Like most reviews, I liked the book and was sad the great Gus and Call saga had finally come to an end. Of the four books, this ties with Dead Man's Walk. The best, by far, is Lonesome Dove and then Streets of Laredo. Because of the following these books have generated, I hope McMurtry writes another novel about one of the Lonesome Dove characters.
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Summary: McMurty goes slumming; drops Gus and Call into a comic book.
Review: When Larry McMurty is on, he's really on (witness Lonesome Dove and Streets of Laredo), but when he's off -- ugh. Comanche Moon is way off. The characters are caricatures, the situations are implausible, the writing is weak and unconvincing. The only possible silver lining: Maybe McMurty will feel a need to redeem himself and invest some effort in a more worthy segment of the series for the readers he cheats with a very dim Moon.
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Summary: Excellent read for Lonesome Dove fans.
Review: Comanche Moon fills in many gaps in the Lonesome Dove saga. It doesn't always jibe with the other stories in the series, but it stands by itself as an excellent novel by McMurtry. McMurtry does get long winded with his explanation of the relationship between Call and Maggie. The story could have been sped up considerably and 100 pages (it felt like 100)could have been cut if he hadn't dwelled so much on their doomed (and dull) relationship. The most interesting character was Skull. The best part of the book concerns Skull's battle of wills with Ahumando. Overall the book was excellent, but not as good as Lonesome Dove or Streets of Larado.
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Summary: Gutsy Good Writing
Review: Western novels haven't exactly been a staple of my reading diet but now I've realized how much fun I've been missing. It is true that much of this praise is attributable to the ability of writer Larry McMurtry to evoke a time and a place, but the fascination for the mythical qualities of the Old West is one of the most enduring pleasures in a contemporary period of digital slings and arrows, electronic noise, and palaverous tedium. Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are brought to life in this culminating novel of McMurtry's Texas Ranger series with a style that not only competes with the Big Screen but usually surpasses it. You get the feeling that you know these fellows from personal experience, and you discover them at a depth which is virtually impossible in the flat though flamboyant medium of film. The garrulous and wayward Gus McCrae is the perfect partner for the stolid and taciturn Woodrow F. Call. There's an abundance of colorful characters who ride the American Southwest with Call and McCrae, each with a distinctive personality, with weaknesses and strengths in such a baffling, unpredictable mix that you must keep following along through the more than 800 pages of this exciting yarn. McMurtry knows what people are made from and if this story reeks a little of saddle soap and gun oil, it's more because the times were particularly hard on the women who ventured westward in the 1800s than from any intent to direct this novel toward male readers. Of course, much that happens to these characters is unremittingly brutal. There are no noble savages, just as there are no perfect cowboy heroes. Women are kidnapped and raped, men are scalped, and children are murdered in this tale of the last days of the Indian wars. The Comanche tortures are fiendish, the white man's cruelty and narrow-mindedness is endemic, and the trail is long, dusty, dry and painful at every turn. But the excitement is at a high pitch all the way to the end. What else could make me, normally a reader of dr! y and dusty tomes, of literature with a capital "L", sprint through so many pages of a cowboy novel?
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Summary: I wish the story would never end.....
Review: I can't get enough of August and Woodrow...and I love McMurtry's books, each and every one...Of course, Lonesome Dove ranks right up there with GWTW.....
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Summary: ANOTHER CLASSIC!!
Review: NO ONE makes you feel as much a part of the story as larry mcmurtry. when i put one of his books down i generally have to get a glass of water to get the dust out. I enjoyed comanche moon, but felt it just left me hanging, which would be fine, except that i already read the other 3 parts to the series. as i was reading comanche i wondered how the book would have been if read in sequencial order, not knowing the future. GUS AND CALL are probably the two best characters in american fiction, and in comanche moon you can find several reasons not to like CALL. read this if you have read lonesome dove or plan to read it. alone, i am not sure.
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Summary: Wish the ending was as good as the remainder of the book
Review: The author does it again in hooking the reader with memorable characters. After reading Lonesome Dove, I was certain that I would never encounter a more memorable and evil character than Blue Duck. MrMurtry has created, if possible, a more soulless villian in Ahumado. In addition, the characters of Skull and his wife will also live on in reader's memories long after the book is completed. The perspective of the settlement of Texas from a Comanche viewpoint is as vivid as is the terror of their raids. My greatest criticism is that it seemed as if the author simply grew tired of the story coming around the home turn. I wish he had permitted Call and McRae to confront the Black Vaqeuro; Ahumado, as well as reuniting the two Rangers with Skull. In fact, the Skull characters would be a great source of a brand new series! In spite of an ending which is as unevental as the land they are travelling on by foot, anyone who enjoyed Lonesome Dove should get their hands on this book.
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Summary: Typos and mental lapses in the Old West
Review: It sure seemed to me as if McMurtry and Simon & Schuster were merely completing some sort of contractual obligation to each other and emotional obligation to fans of the Lonesome Dove series with the publication of Comanche Moon.
Yeah, I enjoyed the book for 400-500 pages, before it degenerated into a progressively typo-ridden, rambling series of brief, occasionally poignant but mainly disconnected and even trite series of vignettes attempting to sum up the lives of the various characters.
Others have described the incredibly sloppy proofreading job on this book, involving typographical errors and repeated portions of dialogue. What a mess! What lack of respect for the reading public! And the editors failed to correct the author's numerous mental lapses, among them:
* Ranger Lee Hitch is shaggy-haired and Stove Jones is bald, but several pages later, when they line up for haircuts in the town of Lonesome Dove, Lee Hitch is bald and Stove Jones is shaggy-haired.
* Inez Scull complains that she dropped her buggy whip, then just a few paragraphs later, she begins to beat Gus with her buggy whip.
* Call grows bored with the rangers' conversation and walks away, then somehow contributes a comment to the same conversation.
Have I missed anything?
I greatly enjoyed the Lonesome Dove series, but would rank this book fourth in quality.
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