RIP

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When asked what my favorite book is... I answer Lonesome Dove.

The character development is sooo good that Gus Macrae seemed like a real person to me. Never got that feeling from any other author.

Have read and enjoyed a number of his books. Sorry to hear it. RIP.

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Originally posted by mttaylor1066:
When asked what my favorite book is... I answer Lonesome Dove.

The character development is sooo good that Gus Macrae seemed like a real person to me. Never got that feeling from any other author.

Agreed, damn good book.
RIP Larry McMurtry

“Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look- historical ignorance remains a national characteristic” & “The older the violin, the sweeter the music” My two favorite McMurtry quotes.

I’m not sure that most Americans realize who & what they lost today. He shall be missed. Rest easy Cowboy.

Is growin' up always miserable?" Sonny asked. "Nobody seems to enjoy it much."

"Oh, it ain't necessarily misearble," Sam replied. "About eighty percent of the time, I guess."

They were silent again, Sam the Lion thinking of the lovely, spritely girl he had once led into the water, right there, where they were sitting.

"We ought to go to a real fishin' tank next year," Sam said finally. "It don't do to think about things like that too much. If she were here now I'd probably be crazy again in about five minutes. Ain't that ridiculous?"

A half-hour later, when they had gathered up the gear and were on the way to town, he answered his own question. "It ain't really, " he said. "Being crazy about a woman like her's always the right thing to do. Being a decrepit old bag of bones is what's ridiculous.”
- Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show

“But just let me tell you something, son, a woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. So you better just get over it.”
- Larry McMurtry, “Leavin Cheyenne”

quote:

Originally posted by mttaylor1066:
When asked what my favorite book is... I answer Lonesome Dove.

The character development is sooo good that Gus Macrae seemed like a real person to me. Never got that feeling from any other author.

Same here, loved that book.