4.31k reviews for:

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

4.58 AVERAGE

traveling4489's review against another edition

5.0

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Lonesome Dove – The kind of book that’s daunting to start due to the size and then when you get to the end you feel your heartbreak because it’s over. Impossible to finish without at least your thought vernacular adjusting to now include reckon, d’ern, and cowboy. And for being a Yankee this is quite the feat. I feel in love with characters and hated others, laughed and cried, friendships, and enemies, unrequited loves, cowboys, Indians and a few whores (seriously would like a count of how many times this word was used in this book). However, as when I started I remain even more firmly grounded in the fact I would not have made a good pioneer woman. Great read, would be a rare one for me that I’d read again down the road! Popsugar Book List 2017: A book over 800 pages (even though this book technically straddled 2016 and 2017, I’m counting it because I don’t pick up books this size too often!)

amanda720's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

elliesbeck's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark funny inspiring medium-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

jo_jo_reads's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional reflective sad 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

wildishthing's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

oreos_fan's review against another edition

3.25

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man this book was so hyped up for me that i don't think it ever stood a chance of living up to those expectations, but i still enjoyed it for what it is. i finally began to appreciate it when i recognized that this was an epic (as in the genre) that just happens to be a genre novel too. it does feel like a weird pulitzer choice especially given how much it leans into the regressive parts of westerns but the more pulitzers i read the more i think it's just a strange award lol. anyways, glad i read it but am glad to be done and move on to a more manageable book

smb5187's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-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

chiaralovespink's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

emcheyder's review against another edition

5.0

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50 stars

aprovince55's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes