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I hardly ever watch Westerns on TV or in the cinema, I don't find the outdoor male-dominated lifestyle appealing and I normally have little interest in their historical setting. Nevertheless, I have just raced through almost 900 pages of an epic Western novel which has proved thrilling, fascinating and totally enjoyable.
Augustus McCrae and WF Call are retired Texas Rangers, leading an aimless life in the 1880s in the small Texan town of Lonesome Dove. When Call gets the idea to undertake a cattl ...more
Augustus McCrae and WF Call are retired Texas Rangers, leading an aimless life in the 1880s in the small Texan town of Lonesome Dove. When Call gets the idea to undertake a cattl ...more
Excuse me while I go shower off the dust from that cattle drive...
This is one of those books that you put down genuinely surprised you aren't dusty. Like, wasn't I just crossing the plains with a bunch of cattle? Why am I so clean? How did I get to this couch?
Every time I picked it up, it took only a page or two to be right back out there on a horse with Gus and Call. I cannot believe how many things I've lived through in my journey with this book.
I never once felt the heft of these 800+ pages, ...more
This is one of those books that you put down genuinely surprised you aren't dusty. Like, wasn't I just crossing the plains with a bunch of cattle? Why am I so clean? How did I get to this couch?
Every time I picked it up, it took only a page or two to be right back out there on a horse with Gus and Call. I cannot believe how many things I've lived through in my journey with this book.
I never once felt the heft of these 800+ pages, ...more
Felt at home in the prose right away. I notice how much my perspective on how other people live have changed: A person in the book is living in a one house settlement near a road but far from everything and rarely see any other people. Mail is about once a month. The children have no playmates outside the family and will gather to just look at people passing the place. That was just how things were.
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