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This massive book may have taken me about five months to read, but it was truly enjoyable from start to finish! It started off slow and lazy, just like a hot Texas day, introducing us gradually and intimately to a cast of fascinating characters. At first, the male characters' attitudes towards women was disgusting and off-putting, but gradually the female characters ended up being the most well-developed and interesting, strongest characters in the entire novel. I never knew how much sex slavery
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This book is an odyssey, an epic, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and I had to buy it from my local second hand book store to get a copy. It took me the first 300 pages to really get into, but after that it was all over; the book and its characters had me hooked.
It is a true "warts and all" Western, and you feel every cactus prickle, smell the buffalo hides, and taste the bad coffee with the characters. Their lives become so real, that by the end of the book I know what another GR reviewer meant when t ...more
It is a true "warts and all" Western, and you feel every cactus prickle, smell the buffalo hides, and taste the bad coffee with the characters. Their lives become so real, that by the end of the book I know what another GR reviewer meant when t ...more
I'm honestly not sure how to review this book. I doubt I can say much about it that hasn't been covered in the countless other reviews, so I'll start from the fact that I listened to on an Audible download. It was narrated by Lee Horsley, but the audio quality left a lot to be desired. Plus the fact hat it was 36 hours, made me feel like I was on the cattle drive with the cowboys.
It was definitely slow for me to get involved, and I still can't say I love this book, as you spend a lot of time mea ...more
It was definitely slow for me to get involved, and I still can't say I love this book, as you spend a lot of time mea ...more
Gus McCrae and W.G. Call are former Texas Rangers with a small ranch on the Rio Grande. Their former partner Hake Spoon shows up, fleeing a sheriff after him for murder, and the group decides to perform the first ever cattle drive to Texas. Some parts of the book were exciting but it took forever, over 200 pages, for the action to get started. I also dislike that the majority of characters I actually cared about end up dead. I wish the book focused more on McCrae and call and left out some of th
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I ADORE this book...the storyline, the characters, the setting. It is just amazing (and this comes from a woman who could really care less about westerns). It blew me away when I read it almost 10 years ago and it is still in my Top Ten list.
Wow. Just wow!
Dec 05, 2013
Vesra (When She Reads)
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