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    <body><![CDATA[Sure, it's depressing, but it's a great read. The movie (in black and white) is good, as it stays pretty close to the book, but the book is still better.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess you could call this a coming-of-age novel, but 1) I've never particularly enjoyed coming-of-age novels, and 2) it's not for that aspect of the book that I liked it.<br/><br/>I loved this book for the way McMurtry vividly painted the setting of one small town (and consequently, many other s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8142362">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading a book that uses the theme of youth and its passing right before turning 31 is an apropos thing to do.  Not that I’m mourning my twenties, but it’s good to be reminded growing old happens to everybody and everybody deals, some better than others in Larry McMurtry’s world.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64686739">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’ve read several of Larry McMurtry’s books and am confident in placing The Last Picture Show among his best work. Only McMurtry can turn life in a small, quiet, down-trodden west Texas town into a “I can’t put this book down” page turner. His characters are so richly developed and his des...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60260761">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[McMurtry was still a developing writer when he wrote this one and it shows in some of the descriptions, which tend to overexplain what the reader can infer for themselves. Still, the sense of desolation and repressed sadness of a dying small town comes across strongly, especially in the last 50 page...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2167221">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Last Picture Show&quot; was readable, but I'm happy that I read &quot;Lonesome Dove&quot; first, otherwise I probably would not have picked up another McMurtry book.  The few redeeming characters in the book play paltry roles, then die. Sex is a weak substitute for plot with every characte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53415808">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[3.5<br/><br/>Lonesome Dove is one of my favorite novels.  I'm not sure what I think about Last Picture Show.  He does a great job of pulling you into the small Texas town setting and the gossipy nature of life there.  You really feel for the loneliness of so many of the characters.  But I was real...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41429607">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am always a sucker for coming-of-age stories, and this one did not disappoint. It was my first time reading McMurtry's fiction, and I really enjoyed it. The neat thing about this book is that I spent three years in the area that McMurtry writes about (Archer City, Texas, and its environs), so I co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47913922">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely one of the more personally distubring books I've read, both for what occurs in it, and for how other readers react to it like it all makes perfectly realistic sense.  My high school experience apparently was highly unusual in lacking constant bizarre sexuality, because I can't seem to rel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76214927">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book Club pick....I actually have wanted to read Larry McMurtry for some time, though this would not have been my first pick of his books. I had seen the movie years ago and did not enjoy it. The movie itself is not bad, but I never quite got into the story or the characters. I had the same problem ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16682870">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was compelled to look at this novel in a different light.The presence of craft was too profound for me not to appreciate this text in the light of creative composition.  McMurty constructed for us a dynamic piece of writing in the sense that the reader was indubitably drawn into a story “telling...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11195301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't read a lot of modern fiction and I usually think that coming-of-age stories are really stale and contrived.  That wasn't, for me, the best aspect of this book, anyway.  <br/><br/>McMurtry reminds me a lot of John Steinbeck, with small-scale settings and quirky, mostly unheroic characters. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10975966">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I was less than swept away by this book. In fact, I didn't finish it, because I just couldn't stomach it. I guess playing pool, drunken Saturday nights, baiting the disabled, sex with heifers, infidelity and other gems are not my cuppa. I saw the movie years ago, but barely remember it. No wonder....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40766133">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never read a Larry McMurtry book before, and after a lot of people praising him as one of the best authors of our time, I finally picked this book up. The things I liked: The prose is straightforward and easy to understand, and I loved the way he painted West Texas as a character in itself -- w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4172303">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all-time favorites, and a treasure that I revisit over and over.  If you haven't discovered the wonder that is <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Larry McMurty" title=" Larry McMurty"> Larry McMurty</a>, just go ahead and start with this one.  Next I'd go with <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Horseman, Pass By" title=" Horseman, Pass By"> Horseman, Pass By</a>, and then just dive headfirst into one of the best works of contemporary fiction in Ame...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3535306">more...</a>]]></body>
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