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  <title><![CDATA[Lonesome Dove]]></title>
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  <default_description>This epic, Pulitzer Prize winning novel depicts fun-loving Gus MacRae and taciturn Captain Woodrow Call, a pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers who crave one last adventure before they bow to their advancing years. Convinced that animals will thrive on the lush grasslands of Montana, Captain Woodrow persuades Gus to undertake the arduous, 3,000-mile cattle drive there. 

Rounding up over a thousand head from Mexican rustlers south of the border, the men recruit a diverse crew of hands to help them. Among the party are Woodrow's illegitimate son Newt Dobbs, local prostitute Lorena Wood, and old compatriots Joshua Deets, Jake Spoon, and Pea Eye Parker. 

Storms, hostile natives, poisonous snakes, and rustlers take their toll on the company before Montana is reached in an adventure that is equal parts Greek tragedy and classic, John Ford-style. </default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1920</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Lonesome Dove</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Larry McMurtry]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Aug 02 14:07:16 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was only willing to read this book because a friend told me I had to.  When I was thirty pages into it and complaining to him about being unable to handle any more discussion about horses and beans, he made me a bet: If I got to page 101 (out of 900, mind you) and I still didn't enjoy it, he'd tak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3589913">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8107959">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone!]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 22 21:01:23 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 09 00:25:06 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book completely ravaged me.  I didn't expect to fall in love with Gus, but dammit if I did anyway.  McMurtry dragged me through every mud hole, snake pit, camp fire and stampede his characters endured.  I felt every cactus prickle and tasted the beans and bad coffee.  Who knew I could love the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8107959">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>6</votes>
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 28 11:15:24 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 28 11:35:22 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite book of all times and the best book ever written in the English language. It was so engrossing and the characters so compelling and the adventures so entertaining, that I wanted to read it in one sitting. It's one of those reads that I envy others who have yet to read it.<br/><br/>Gus ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3708077">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 27 23:14:41 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 25 19:12:49 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thanks, Broadway street-book dude.  Cowboys telling fart jokes and falling in love with sullen whores are EXACTLY what I want to read about right now.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Warning: This book will destroy you.  I have never been so completely and utterly decimated by a novel.  I don't need a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23103569">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39935946">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 12 06:22:08 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 12 06:23:20 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gage Glisson<br/>Mrs. Baltz<br/>Pre-AP English 10<br/>12 December 2008<br/>Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry<br/>The book Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry takes place in a time frame in which I have never and will never be able to physically experience.  The book is first set in Lonesome Dove, Tex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39935946">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16782181">
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone interested in the American West who has patience to endure a long novel]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Chompa]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 01 13:24:43 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 20 16:10:06 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a hard book to review.  Lonesome Dove is not a &quot;story&quot; like a traditional story with a beginning, middle, climax, and end.  It's more like you are riding along in these people's lives for a while, until you turn up the trail on your own.<br/><br/>This isn't a spaghetti western wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16782181">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13629181">
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1991</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 26 10:35:10 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 06 11:15:27 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember when I decided to read this book.  Prior to this, I don't think that I would have ever decided to pick up a true Western.  I might have considered watching one if I was really bored or it had extremely good ratings, but even then I would hesitate.<br/>Anyway, I was lifeguarding and askin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13629181">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10261907">
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  <date_added>Tue Dec 11 07:01:51 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably, and justifiably, McMurtry's most beloved novel, Lonesome Dove can be the story of a couple fellas getting old in a changing west- and when I reread (regularly) I admit I usually skip all the non Gus &amp; Call stuff- but it's also an epic painting of the American West itself: almost every aspe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10261907">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="471794">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 28 16:36:35 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 15 20:36:54 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had this book on my top choices from a list of books that we might be assigned back in junior year of high school. Got &quot;A Farewell to Arms&quot; instead. But I found a hardcover in good condition for about $2 a few years later, so I got around to it eventually.<br/>Larry McMurtry's epic is g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/471794">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="202315">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people who aren't afraid to break a few rules.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Mar 08 14:59:34 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 08 15:34:47 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[these days it seems difficult to read a book about cowboys and not assume they all secretly loved each other.  ang lee really fucked that up for all of us.  but now that it's in the open the numbers really pop out at you.  these guys had one whore to share amongst a population of roughly 40-50 wild ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/202315">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30540899">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jason]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Pittsburgh, PA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[cowboys, indians, Ian Riggins]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Budman's Book Mine (Weaverville, CA)]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 19 08:58:10 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 22 11:05:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is exquisite.  I feel i know the characters so well i can speak on their behalf.  <br/><br/>This guy i know Gary, he's 72 and works trails in California.  I immediately established Gus McCrae as him.  It was all in my head.  The guy's three times as old as me but can move rocks bigger th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30540899">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29407634">
    <user id="74413">
    <name><![CDATA[Monica]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone with a little time on their hands.]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[EW New Classics List]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 06 07:55:45 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 08 11:02:21 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished this beast.  All 945 pages of it.  I'm trying hard not to overstate my love for this book since I just finished it and I suppose its possible that some of the shine could rub off of this in the coming months.  But for right now, Lonesome Dove is the best thing I've read all year and it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29407634">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29213649">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mike]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 04 09:48:42 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 15 11:08:45 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A rare novel that, after 940 pages, seems to have just begun. Now that I've finished reading, the characters haunt me like ghosts of friends from a life nearly forgotten. The adventures of the Hat Creek gang are utterly enthralling. Operatically, McMurtry composes movements as vast and captivating a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29213649">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26371383">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kendra]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[EVERYONE who likes to read]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 05 12:33:31 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 06 13:28:03 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried reading this book a few years ago and gave up.  I just couldn't get into it.  But oh, my God, am I ever glad I picked it back up!  I had never been a fan of the western genre, whether it was books or film (though I suppose part of me has always been a little fascinated with the gunslingers a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26371383">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25803724">
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Jenifer Pullman]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 28 23:15:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 06 17:32:20 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has fabulous characters, an epic plot and plenty of pages to keep on giving (945 pages). The writing is beautiful, western and incredibly witty. Set in the late 1800s, this story follows the intersecting lives of several characters in the American West. From Texas to Montana, Missouri to C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25803724">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The word &quot;epic&quot; gets tossed around rather liberally, but in the case of &quot;Lonesome Dove,&quot; Larry McMurtry's elegiac portrait of a dying frontier and the men who helped to tame it, the term applies aptly.  Taking place in the 1880s, the story follows a group of Texas Rangers turned ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21805731">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the epitome of all western books.  Larry McMurtry won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel and trust me he deserved it. The story he wrote, characters he developed, language he used was all perfect for this epic western.  <br/><br/>Lonesome Dove is the story of two aging, retired, Texas Range...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21057313">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I doubt I would ever have picked up an epic Western to read, Pulitzer prize winner or not, so I have to thank Hilary (hi, Hilary!) for giving this to me. Reading Lonesome Dove is as close as anyone living is going to get to understanding the post Civil War American West. As a band of would-be cattle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17257372">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Would you believe just after I finished this book Paula and I were swimming in the creek in our underwear (Okay, we weren't swimming. Neither of us can swim and the creek's maybe three feet deep anyway, but we <em>were</em> in our underwear, it was hot!) and a big water moccasin came gliding downstream towar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11419219">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So this is what people are talking about when mentioning &quot;the great American novel.&quot; The western has long been the only truly American form of mythology--England has Robin Hood and King Arthur; the USA has Billy the Kid and Jesse James--and with this novel, McMurtry does something astoundi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10907940">more...</a>]]></body>
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