Nothing but Blue Skies
by Thomas McGuane
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Ol Patrick hubey doobey doo threw a list my way. He put this guy on top and to this title he said "The main character of "Nothing but Blue Skies" starts his downward spiral after his wife leaves him, so you might want to start there (or not). It also includes the best car chase I've ever read." so after my flight east today, I may know how it ends.
So far it's a bit vonnegut.
Now that I've finished this book, it was definitely a good journey, an enjoyable story that I long...more
So far it's a bit vonnegut.
Now that I've finished this book, it was definitely a good journey, an enjoyable story that I long...more
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recommends it for:
dudes, dudes who love chicks and getting drunk and The West
I 'll be lazy here:
Tom McGuane essentially writes the same book over and over again, but you know what? Fuck you, that's what. His prose is fucking sick. Even if his novels ramble in odd directions sometimes it ain't no matter, he does good business with language.
Things I guarantee from any McGuane Novel:
Male protagonist (except for one)
Third person narrator (except for one)
Weird-o sex scenes (more than once per novel)
Landscape descriptions working on multiple levels
Horses
...more
Tom McGuane essentially writes the same book over and over again, but you know what? Fuck you, that's what. His prose is fucking sick. Even if his novels ramble in odd directions sometimes it ain't no matter, he does good business with language.
Things I guarantee from any McGuane Novel:
Male protagonist (except for one)
Third person narrator (except for one)
Weird-o sex scenes (more than once per novel)
Landscape descriptions working on multiple levels
Horses
...more
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Read in May, 2008
Although certain tropes are repetitive (female hitchhikers smelling like sagebrush, many fishing scenes) and I think the main character receives too much of a pass at the end, the book is laugh-out-loud funny in places. McGuane rambles at times but he has a great gift for dialogue and comic timing. I particularly liked the bit where our hero found himself riding a pig. Another character's description of a porn film was funny as well. Not perfect, but a fun read.
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Read in January, 2008
My high hopes for this book were not met. Well-written, with some terrific sections, but overall it seemed too much the "mid-life crisis novel" to me. I'll some more McGuane though.
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Read in September, 2006
My favorite McGuane book so far. Sort of a Carl Hiassen-flavored version of Rabbit Redux, if I am keeping my Hiassen and my Updike (and my McGuane) straight.
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Read in January, 1993
I remember reading this while I was going through a divorce and it was the perfect book for that tumultuous time in my life.
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