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4.58 AVERAGE
4.58 AVERAGE
adventurous
hopeful
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Spoiler Alert!
Rating this book is difficult. I enjoyed listening to this book on my drive out west and back and covered some of the same ground that they did. It really made the drive fly and I enjoyed the slow way he explained the characters. The author is nearly as wordy as Stephen King, but only up to Gus’s death. Maybe he should have ended it at that moment as he seemed to have run out of words afterwards. And then the ending. What?!? I was sure there was some editing mistake in the audiobook, so I texted my brother who loves the author, and he shared a picture of the last page. What a ridiculous way to end. Maybe it started that way and I forgot?
Overall, I enjoyed it as he had interesting insights and it made us laugh at times. I also rated it so high as I think it will stick w me.
Rating this book is difficult. I enjoyed listening to this book on my drive out west and back and covered some of the same ground that they did. It really made the drive fly and I enjoyed the slow way he explained the characters. The author is nearly as wordy as Stephen King, but only up to Gus’s death. Maybe he should have ended it at that moment as he seemed to have run out of words afterwards. And then the ending. What?!? I was sure there was some editing mistake in the audiobook, so I texted my brother who loves the author, and he shared a picture of the last page. What a ridiculous way to end. Maybe it started that way and I forgot?
Overall, I enjoyed it as he had interesting insights and it made us laugh at times. I also rated it so high as I think it will stick w me.
Content Warnings
adventurous
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The ending literally left me flipping back and forth thinking there should be more even after 900 pages. Wasn’t exactly what I was expecting when I started reading (I don’t know what I was expecting tbh) but the writing and characters were so compelling it made me wish I was back in English class breaking it down chapter by chapter
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
adventurous
emotional
slow-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
(4.5/5)
Most (good) long books get at least a little boost from feeling like something of significance has been gathered over the journey of reading them. For Lonesome Dove, you can take that boost and double it: across nearly 1000 pages, Larry McMurtry takes us there and back again on a country-spanning cattle drive, following some of the Guys of all time as they struggle and suffer and die, some of ‘em. The ones that don’t feel the miles, and so do we — but more as time passing than being wasted.
It’s never poorly spent when you have McMurtry’s richly drawn characters (loads of ‘em) to spend it with, and his plainly beautiful prose to hear about ‘em by. There’s something of Steinbeck’s primeval wisdom here, filtered through a kaleidoscope of worldviews that amount to a world in miniature; funny how they keep running into the same people across the endless expanse of the west. But that’s life: you see some people again you didn’t half expect to, and you miss some you thought you wouldn’t ever have to. “It was wearying, trying to adjust to all the paces life required.” But somehow, McMurtry finds the rhythm. His book ambles and gallops and pauses, always just in time to catch some heartache in the river, or some hope in the sunrise.
Most (good) long books get at least a little boost from feeling like something of significance has been gathered over the journey of reading them. For Lonesome Dove, you can take that boost and double it: across nearly 1000 pages, Larry McMurtry takes us there and back again on a country-spanning cattle drive, following some of the Guys of all time as they struggle and suffer and die, some of ‘em. The ones that don’t feel the miles, and so do we — but more as time passing than being wasted.
It’s never poorly spent when you have McMurtry’s richly drawn characters (loads of ‘em) to spend it with, and his plainly beautiful prose to hear about ‘em by. There’s something of Steinbeck’s primeval wisdom here, filtered through a kaleidoscope of worldviews that amount to a world in miniature; funny how they keep running into the same people across the endless expanse of the west. But that’s life: you see some people again you didn’t half expect to, and you miss some you thought you wouldn’t ever have to. “It was wearying, trying to adjust to all the paces life required.” But somehow, McMurtry finds the rhythm. His book ambles and gallops and pauses, always just in time to catch some heartache in the river, or some hope in the sunrise.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
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:
Yes