Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
Genre: Western
Theme: Friendship, old age, love, loyalty, death, quilt.
I’d like to start with one of my all-time favorites. An oldie
but a goody and a Pulitzer Prize winner.
If I hadn't seen the mini-series first, I would’ve put this
book down in the first chapter—pigs, dust, and rattlesnakes. The story started
so slowly it became a real effort to keep turning pages. But when I'd turned
the last page, I found I was grieving because there wasn't another page to turn
and the story was over. I felt a real loss for the friends I would have to
leave behind. And even now I grieve because I wasn’t the one who wrote it.
Would I recommend this book? Unequivocally.
Rating—Ten out of ten.
Thanks for stopping by,
Shelley Lee Riley
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