A review by hudson88
Anything for Billy by Larry McMurtry

4.0

McNurtry lays out his fictionalized account of the famous boy outlaw's final escapades through the eyes of Mr Sippy, an author who grew tired of his domestic life and sought the adventure of the wild west. He and the reader become entangled in a dynasty which seems to be everywhere they turn. The drama taking place is enormous is spatial scale and apparent stakes, and somehow underwhelming in it's most climatic moments. It was a simple enough book featuring simple enough men; the narrator, though something of an academic, didn't claim to be any less simple in character than the rest.

Sometimes a book seems to be taking you too long to read, and it just never gets done. That happens for me a lot; if it looks like I'm not going to finish it within a couple days, I probably never will. Anything for Billy wasn't like that, fortunately. I guess I really wanted to get to what was promised, to find out how it all ended. It was pretty good, not too dense and packaged in the short chapters which could be a reference to the dime novels of which the narrator is so fond.