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Originally Posted by gabe1984
What are your favorite books? Who are your favorite authors? Have you read any good books recently?
I just finished reading "Lonesome Dove" by Lary McMurty. It may be the best book I've ever read. It's very long, so some people get turned off by it for that reason, but once you start it's hard to put down. It won the Pulitzer Prize, I highly recommend it.
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I didn't read Larry at all for years because, frankly, I know him, or knew him, and bear a grudge. A couple of years ago, however, I put away my dislike and read Cheyenne Moon and the Lonesome Dove with total delight and amazement. That the little creep could come up with those masterpieces blows me away. You guys who never read should grab both of the books quick-- they'll make you readers. They're funny, extremely violent, sad, tragic, heroic. Most of all they seem to give you the old west in all its terrifying complexity rather than it is usually presented.
By the way, I've now read most of his other books and think of all the books only his book on Pretty Boy Floyd comes even close to the above two.