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Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

4.58 AVERAGE

chasekallhoff's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

alexmears2543's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

justinnelson0's review against another edition

5.0

Great book. One of the best maybe. Or I just really love Bolivar.

sford's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

turbosimon's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kanaanhardaway's review against another edition

I found this engaging yet not suspenseful. It didn’t feel like a love story, but it had many vignettes on expression of love and how love exists, and I enjoyed the brief visits to the minds of many characters. I was disappointed to get a major spoiler when I read the preface of the book, and I don’t know how that changed my perspective of the whole book. I would say Clara made this story work; otherwise, it was just a cattle drive with some philosophical musings on love. I’m probably not giving it enough credit there, but I fear more giving it too much credit. The author lightly brushed on the social and environmental issues encountered along the drive, and at the end of the day most people were decided to be people—dynamic in their own agency.

Some quotes I enjoyed:

“The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight” (p. ——).

“It doesn’t do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to” (p. ——).

“‘No,’ Augustus lied” (p. ——).

ronno44's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I have never in my life read something like this.

Wouw what an amazing story. So, so tragic, so much unnecessary dead but oh so real....

A lot of young boys want to be cowboys. The fantasy of the Wild West, the expansion into the unknown the lawless, ruleless world where you can do whatever you want, settle wherever you please but nobody thinks about the fact that the negative far outweigh the positives. Disease, Murder, Fighting, Raping, Stealing you name it, everything is there.

This story really had it all, I laughed, I cried and i wooped of happiness because some guys I really didnt like got killed by the guys I do like. It had everything a Western needs. From the Cattle Drive to the fight with Indians to Robberiers and cowboying and everything in between. The Quote on the cover from USA today says it all:

"If you read only one Western novel in your life, read this one"

An epic journey that has changed my life forever