Years ago I read Terms of Endearment by McMurtry. I didn't like it at the time and I'm considering going back and re-reading it, because I don't remember what my issue was. I lovedLonesome Dove so much that I can't imagine this man writing an ineffective word.
I think most people realize that this book is a Western. It takes place in the late 1800's and follows a group of cowpokes and Rangers as they travel from a town called Lonesome Dove (which is in Texas, right on the Rio Grande) to Montana, which has yet to be 'properly' settled. There are whores, gunfights, scalpings, hangings and any number of other things I wouldn't think I'd like to read about.
I was not looking forward to this book not only because I thought I didn't like Westerns but because it comes damn close to being 1,000 pages long. However, I was very surprised to find that there wasn't a moment in reading this book that I wanted it to hurry up and end. I didn't just like it despite the Western elements, I actually became fascinated as I realized just how recently it was that cowboys were riding around shooting Indians, and Indians were scalping those cowboys in response.
I have a feeling I'll be on a real Western kick for awhile here, which is completely bizarre. Luckily, McMurtry went on to write 3 more installments in the Lonesome Dove series. I can't wait to read them.
No quotes this time, but I will share a fun fact : Larry McMurtry won the Oscar a few years ago for writing the screen adaption of Brokeback Mountain.
10/10
YTD:
Books read : 13
Pages read : 4,316
Currently reading : Mockingbird Wish Me Luck - Charles Bukowski & One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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