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... The Awakening Land trilogy
Edith Pargeter's The Heaven Tree Trilogy
Young'un Herbert Best
Moving on & Lonesome Dove most of Larry McMurtry's stuff
Mrs. Mike
Breathing lessons & St. Maybe & All Anne Tyler
Bel Canto
Louis Bromfield's The Rains Came & ... ... fireworks, but don't like
fighting the traffic and crowds to get to displays. So...maybe on that one.
And reading Lonesome Dove, which I'm about halfway through and only
one word comes to mind . . . . . splendid. Wow, it's a great book, a great
summer read.
Happy 4th, everyone! Oh, and Augustus McCrae from Lonesome Dove. A new favorite of mine! ... test.)
As a fiction reader I enjoy character studies, so I'm one who is perfectly happy to wade through 100+ pages of Lonesome Dove waiting for the trail drive to begin because McMurtry is introducing the myriad characters in the book. I want to know about those characters, where they ... ... King (2000)
22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)
23. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)
24. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)
25. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1989)
26. Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
27. Possession, A.S. Byatt (1990)
28. Naked, Da ... #174 Lonesome Dove is just brilliant, isn't it! It was the same with me ~ I thought I'd hate it but it ended up one of my all-time desert-island favorites! Hmm, I haven't listened to it on audiobook, though. I take it the reader is good? Currently listening to Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. This is way outside my typical fare, and I didn't expect to like it much. I am thrilled to be wrong. Lonesome Dove ****½ (#115)
by Larry McMurtry
06/09/08
Strait is the Gate ****½
by André Gide
06/10/08 ... a quickie, childlike book; and Jefferson Bass's Flesh and Bone, the second of the Body Farm novels. On audio, I have Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry going. ... Credit: The West
1. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy ****½
2. The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard ***½
3. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry ****½
4. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy ****
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8. ... Boy. You might also enjoy some John Irving possibly the The Cider House Rules. Though not in a contemporary setting Lonesome Dove is very enjoyable and has a theme of unrequited love. Wilton Barnhardt's Emma, Who Saved My Life is another possibility. Finally another British ... ... litude
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (I guess thats three, but worth it)
Watership Down
Mansfield Park
Rebecca
Lonesome Dove
War and Peace
that ought to keep me busy -- I went for favorites that are long, involved, and that I would want to re-read. I am not entirely sure ... ... and they might as well have been cartoons. As somewhat of a parallel, there was plenty of violence and graphic mayhem in Lonesome Dove, Little Big Man, and Blood Meridian, with many scenes as grotesque as anything in Smonk, but the writers made me care about the characters in those ... ... for whatever reason.
In no particular order (no authors where obvious or the touchstone works):
Wuthering Heights
Lonesome Dove
A prayer for owen meany
I was Amelia Earhart
We speak no treason (I'm a Richard III freak
Bel Canto
A Game of Thrones (1st that started me on ... ... To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
13. Little women Louisa May Alcott
14. Raintree County Ross Lockridge Jr.
15. Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
16. Dr. Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
17. Collected Short Stories by Anton Chekov
l8. The God of small things by Arundhati Roy
19 A T ... Lonesome Dove is 900+- pages...a wonderful story with rich characters on a journey. I had a second hand paperback copy which I sliced into three parts. ... Wind Margaret
mitchell
Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
War & Peace Leo Tolstoy
Raintree County Ross Lockridge
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Good Earth Pearl B ... ... and over again without getting tired of them (or, worse, being disappointed). The Sparrow, The Sunne in Splendour, Lonesome Dove, and The Stand are four that would pass the test. In fact, I've already read The Sparrow and The Stand more than once and enjoyed them as much the second (a ... This in today from BookMooch: Dead Man's Walk by Larry McMurtry, completing my quest to own the entire Lonesome Dove series! ... by Plato
Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry (trying to complete the Lonesome Dove series)
Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
Emily Climbs by L.M. Montgomery
Whew! There is another thrift store on my way home from work ... ... the meaning of night by michael cox
no 888 hone yet
1) lost by gregory maguire
2) chocolat by joanne harris
3) lonesome dove
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1) mary magdelene by margaret george
2) virgin's lover by philippa gregory
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Books to ... ... to reading the Common Reader Catalogue. I think their "thumping Good Reads" always involved some action & adventure. Lonesome Dove is a good example.
I would add The Poisonwood Bible & 5 Quarters of the Orange They could also be called "page turners" only well written. ... convalescing. Some the books I put in this category are:
Boy's Life
Shining Through
The Gold Coast
December
Lonesome Dove
Last Call
The Winds Of War
The Prince of Tides
Ultimate Prizes
What are some of your Thumping Good Reads? ... to stay with "popular" books when trying out a new genre. For instance, when I try westerns, the first book I'll read is Lonesome Dove. ... in a Strange Land
When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake – not a very big one. Lonesome Dove
Some notable sight was drawing the passengers, both men and women, to the window; therefore I rose and crossed the car to see what it was. The Virginian
... ... in 1980 or thereabouts. I recently bought the new translation and I absolutely mean to read it this year.
#21 READ Lonesome Dove It's totally wonderful.
#5 Give Plague Dogs to the library booksale. It was grim, gruesome and nasty. After Watership Down it left a bad taste in ... Nothing too bad on my TBR shelf. I think Lonesome Dove has been on my TBR list for a couple years, though. Eeek! How did I manage to omit Lonesome Dove?!? Yes, Heath, that was an excellent film adaptation of the book too. ... Endearment or Sophie's Choice (shame on me, I know), but your mentioning Terms reminded me, the mini-series of McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, with Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, is absolutely wonderful. I read the book a LONG time ago, so not 100% certain, but I seem to recall the mini-series ... ... historian that he couldn't abandon the facts, and the two in combination restrained him. And as far as McMurtry goes, while Lonesome Dove was certainly good, I much prefer The Last Picture Show, which tells the grim, hopeless truth about How Life Was in that place, at that time. That's my ... Have you read anything by Larry McMurtry? He is best known forLonesome Dove a novel of the American west which takes place in the 1870's. However, he has written novels set in the present which feature strong male protaganists. Personally, I prefer him to Hemingway & believe he is a much ... Add me to the Gone With the Wind list, but Lonesome Dove is tied with it. Two great books! I just re-read GWTW this past year and having not read it since I was a teenager, I was glad to see that it stood up to the test of time as I got older, and I still think it's a great book! In order:
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck
Rebecca Daphne DuMaurier
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (an LTearly reviewer)
First Man in Rome by Coleeen McCullough
I have also just started The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor which is ... ... to soundtrack now, so I just remembered)
-The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Cannot believe I forgot that earlier!)
-Lonesome Dove (slipped my mind for some weird reason)
Hey suge, is there any vampire book with a hot vampire male in it that you haven't read? ... Edna Ferber I'm sure you've heard of the movie, but the book is so much more detailed and engrossing. I also second Lonesome Dove, one of my all time favorite books! Oooh, jhowell, wasn't Lonesome Dove wonderful! ...
Middlemarch George Eliot (2)
The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles (3)
A Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul (2)
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry (4)
I am Charlotte Simmons Tom Wolfe (1) Lonesome Dove by McMurtry pretty much tops my list for sheer storytelling wonder, although The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell and The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman are close seconds.
Of course, there's also Gate to Women's Country and Dune that sussabmax mentioned, and ... ... like no more than a notation effort, I thought I'd list my 'favorite' Westerns, a cross-genre compilation of classics:
-Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
-Warlock - Oakley Hall
-The Last Crossing - Guy Vanderhaeghe
-Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
-The Big Sky / The Way Wes ... Some of my favorites lately:
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent
The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck ... the end of Where the Red Fern Grows. I must be so calous, not crying at the end. I barely felt sad, actually.
Now, Lonesome Dove, I teared up pretty bad. And Bridge to Terabithia, I bawled, baby bawls with hiccups and everything. Same with The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. ... ... paintings don't move me in quite this way. Music sometimes makes me cry. Novels very often. Yes, Cliff, I know the scene in Lonesome Dove that you are referring to, and I was reading through a haze of tears by that point. I cry at funerals, too - even of people I barely knew. I loved Lonesome Dove - just finished last night ( I can't believe that it's not on the 1001 Novels . . . list). I just started Grapes of Wrath which I have never read before. #140 -
Yes; my copy of Lonesome Dove is a chunky #810 -- but I am flying right through it; it is definately one of those books that you can't put down.
#124,125,127 etc -- count me in as one who loved The Namesake! I love Indian fiction for some reason. I recently loved The Inheritance ... jhowell I loved Lonesome Dove. It was one of the few books where I cried when it was over because I wanted more, and, as I remember, the book is over 900 pages. ... obvious classics pride and prejudice and wuthering heights, I also plan to re-read:
bel canto by ann patchett
lonesome dove by larry mcmurtry
i was amelia earhart by jane mendolsohn
I've also re-read George RR Martin's series at least once and will do so again before the ... I am reading Lonesome Dove and really enjoying it. It is such an entertaining novel. I certainly wasn't prepared for how funny it is. ... the hype. Doesn't come close to touching All Quiet on the Western Front in terms of great war novels.
I just started Lonesome Dove last night. ... enthralling, but it was fascinating. I couldn't say that I really liked it, but I learned so much.
I also finished Lonesome Dove and am in the last few pages of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I fell hard for 'Brooklyn.' It's definitely one of my new favorite books.
It's so simple, but at ... ... A Tree Grows in Brooklyn which has been on my TBR list for so long! Great so far. I'm also still making my way through Lonesome Dove on audiobook. I'm enjoying it, but it's definitely not a quick read as the narrator talks like a cowboy with a slow, lilting voice.
I'm in the midst of ... While the book was amazing Lonesome Dove the mini-series blows it away. I'm reading Lonesome Dove which I started during my recent roadtrip out west to South Dakota. It was a good fit. But I'm still reading it, good so far.
I'm also reading Howards End which I love. This is my fourth or fifth E.M. Forster book I've read and soo far it's my favorite.
Also ... Can I add Lonesome Dove? I am just about finished with Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. I loved this book and don't want it to end, so am putting off the last few pages. It took me all summer to read, but it was worth it! I think I'll read The Edge of the Crazies by Jamie Harrison next. Re: GRRM, Lonesome Dove and various popular books containing massive amounts of human (or otherwise) misery. Gee...I count those among my favorites! Must be the black Irish in me.
I do not, however, like sappy, tear-jerkers like many of the Oprah "{insert enthnic or sociological stereotype ... ... read that book and laughed. Then one would have to wonder about your empathy and sanity...
I was actually thinking of Lonesome Dove -- my friend loved that book and mini-series and I used to describe it to him like that, and he always just laughed and agreed with my assessment. But he ... #166 - That's what everyone keeps telling me about Lonesome Dove. I am loving it so far! Can't believe I have just found it, but I'll give all the credit to the LibraryThingers who have recommended it all over this site.
#177 - Watership Down was a great book. I was surprised how much I ... #161 Lonesome Dove rules! I'm working my way through (finally up to page 494) Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. It's really a great book, but slow going for me with summer winding down and kids heading back to school. I'm also ready When God Weeps by Joni Tada and Steve Estes. Really good book dealing with the reasons ... #183 and #184
Thanks for all the info. I've just put the sequel to Lonesome Dove on my Amazon.com wishlist. Someone's review gave away something sad about the ending of Lonesome Dove. Wish I hadn't read it! Think I'll put the movies on my Netflix, though. ... enjoyed his historicals about the American West, like Buffalo Girls and Anything for Billy, and the prequels/sequels to Lonesome Dove, and to a lesser degree the Berrybender series, but, really, nothing comes close to Lonesome Dove, imho.
I thought the movie was really good too. ... Thomas - Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz
Lucas Corso - The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Woodrow Call - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Raoul Duke - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Holden Caufield - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger ... #157
#158
#154
Wow, can't believe I have never read this wonderful book Lonesome Dove before. It's fantastic so far and I find myself thinking of the characters when I'm unable to do some more reading. Have you read other books by McMurtry? Are they just as good? Is it worth seeing/renting ... Signs Of Book Attachments:
* When my copy of Lonesome Dove fell apart, I literally ran to the bookstore, and spent way too much time stress-testing copies to see which would survive the longest.
* I own two copies of Watchmen, and briefly owned five copies of Fear and Loathing on the Campai ... Lonesome Dove was a wonderful book! I too hope you enjoy it as much as I did when I read it years ago.
Let us know what you think!
I just finished Hell House by Richard Matheson, and now I'm on to Ghost Story by Peter Straub.
I guess I'm on a horror kick this week! #151 I do hope you enjoy Lonesome Dove as much as I did! I second Smiley's comment ~ it's a masterpiece! Let us know. After hearing so many LibraryThingers rave about Lonesome Dove, I decided to order it used from Amazon.com. So far so good and it is keeping my interest. I was thinking I would be bored because it's a western. I've never seen the movie/TV series so it's all new to me. I think I'll enjoy it. B ... Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is by far and away my favorite, that's desert-island favorite, historical Western ever. It was just phenomenal! I also liked McMurtry's Anything for Billy and Buffalo Girls, and mostly enjoyed the prequel and sequels of Lonesome Dove and his Berrybender ... I was rereading my copy of Lonesome Dove one day, and the entire contents of the paperback fell out on my lap. In the subway. It was snowing outside. Maybe three pages survived.
Since then, when a book starts looking... elderly... I either A) panic and buy a back-up copy, or B) buy that ... ... and Me. Makes me teary just thinking about it! And any book where an animal dies, really.
Also when Gus dies in Lonesome Dove. *sniff* ... character with the same name from the cartoon 'Gargoyles.' He rocked.
Later, I had a friend from the mini-series/book, Lonesome Dove. She was the daughter of one of the characters. Catherine Call (my middle name was her first name - coincidence?). I still love that book. Reportedly I was ... ... Repose
Donna Tartt The secret history
Richard Ford The sportswriter
William Styron Sophie's choice
Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove
Margaret Lawrence A jest of God
Ross Lockridge Raintree County
Joyce Carol Oates Dark water
These are all books I want to hang on to. And don't ... ... by Simon Winchester
The Oxford Book of Children's Verse
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel
Larry McMurtry after the wonderful Lonesome Dove, but was sorely disappointed after the sequel, so quit him altogether.
George RR Martin and have really enjoyed all of the Song of Fire and Ice series and some of his work, but not as much.
Margaret Atwood:my first hit of the devine Ms. At ... Lonesome Dove series by Larry McMurtry - actually anything by him is wonderful.
The Stand by Stephen King
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Half of a Yellow Sun by ... ... by Pat Conroy - the movie was atrocious but the book is incredible
The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
These are all oldies so you may have already read them but they always come up when anyone asks me about favorites. #69 ~ Ooooh, dugmel, I envy you reading Lonesome Dove for the first time! It was my very first Western, and I started it very reluctantly, because, I mean, a WESTERN? Hah! Only one of the best novels of all time! (imho) Enjoy! ... (both recent and from my dark, lonely past; but is one ever alone with a book? Yes, yes, I know: rationalizing again.):
lonesome dove
seabiscuit a sentimental favorite. My friends became terribly concerned with my Seabuiscuit obsession. I have a literary shrine to this little horse!
out ... #92 - I also loved Lonesome Dove, that is one of the best stories. Have you ever seen the mini series with Robert Duvall?
I also have Sunne in Splendour and The Far Pavillions on my wishlist. ... Treason; both sympathetic views of Richard (which I share).
As for favorite historical fiction...a favorite of mine is Lonesome Dove for the American west and The Far Pavillions by m. m. kaye for the Raj India (far less daunting than Scott's Raj Quartet). ... more books for presents for people. Happy Friday for me!
The Thirteenth Tale
Cross
4th of july
5th horseman
Lonesome dove
cloud atlas
Down Under
The Camel Club
The Outsiders
Rise and Shine
Dear John
The Lincoln Lawyer
Judge and Jury
This Christmas
The ... ... with the Civil War.
The Mists of Avalon: I have read it several times and it got me interested in Arthurian tales.
Lonesome Dove: I loved this book which was amazing because it was a Western...the only Western I have ever enjoyed.
Time and Again: This book is the epitome of time ... This is fascinating! Lonesome Dove is one of my favorite books of all time, and I read part I of The Stand some years ago and enjoyed it. I would never have thought to compare them -- but you're right, there is a lot of similarity. Also, both novels are set in a dying world. In The Stand, it ... ... have some sort of basis for comparison, and my mind kept going back (jokingly at first because they're both so long) to Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry and The Stand: complete & uncut edition by Stephen King. Once I started to really consider it, I was surprised by how closely ... Kerian, I'm laughing because I did the same with Harry Potter as I did with Lonesome Dove in that I thought, "I won't read that, it's too popular, I'm sure to hate it." Then, in both cases, I read and loved. So maybe I'm a young 65, or a stubborn 65. Yeah, that's it, a stubborn 65. Of course, ... I haven't read a western yet though I have Lonesome Dove on my TBR Someday list. Both the sequel and the prequel. I didn't want Lonesome Dove to end, so I had to keep reading about the characters. :) Neither matched Lonesome Dove for sheer genius, but I enjoyed them. I hope to reread it (L.D.) this year. ... McEwan, Toni Morrison, Douglas Adams, et al) - that's ain't right, man!! Not when Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove don't make the list at all.
And there's room for a zillion Jane austen, but only one Roman poet (Ovid) and no Homer?? ... by Sallie Reynolds
fiction
The Time it Never Rained by Elmer Kelton
The Train to Estelline by Jane Roberts
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog by John Erikson
anthology
Lone Star Literature by Don Graham (ed.)
And the ... ... Cave Bear
The Valley of Horses
The Mammoth Hunters
Saving Fish from Drowning
Sarah Canary
The Thorn Birds
Lonesome Dove
To kill a Mockingbird
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Secret life of Bees
If you give a Mouse a Cookie
... I did read the second and I think the third in the series.
As far as Westerns go, I used to loathe them until I read Lonesome Dove. It is a wonderful, wonderful novel! I highly recommend it. Lonesome Dove is brilliant. The lightning dancing in the cattle horns haunts me still! Also, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel is an excellent dip into the real life experiences of westward migration. Also Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove series. ... The Alienist. Mary Renault writes magnificent historicals about the ancient world. I don't know if McMurtry's Lonesome Dove would be considered a historical, but it was set in the old West and was really really good. I've heard that Mary Doria Russell's latest novel ~ A Thread ... ... House of Sky. Though a great pair of novels to read are Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose and Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove.
It might be a tie, but the Lonesome Dove mini-series was as good or better as the book- and the book is my all time favorite. Loved Lonesome Dove, an absolute all-time favorite. I read it after seeing the mini-series on TV (out on disc now, praise the Lord). Gave my copy to a friend in Paris, and will now have to go buy another one--I hadn't considered reading it again, an excellent idea! A few years ago I bought a copy of Lonesome Dove from a college professor/book collector in Wichita, who told me he owned 12 first editions of LD, eight of which were signed. He said he just couldn't help himself and planned to buy even more, particularly since he now owned one less. I loved Lonesome Dove--I think Larry McMurtry is fantastic. The characters really make this book. Entertainment Weekly has a great interview with McMurtry from a few years back
http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,547914_7_0_,00.html
I was unsuccessful at making this a link, but try ... ... is a place to share favorites and browse the libraries of this rich, broad genre.
My favorites are pretty generic:
Lonesome Dove and Little Big Man
I've also read most of the Owen Wister's The Virginian and found it enjoyable but half the reason I read Westerns is for the ...
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