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Twenty years ago, if you had asked if I’d like to wallow around in a pool of desperation and loneliness, I would have said it’s kind of you to ask, but no thank you! These days, I take to it like a pig to mud, I guess. If you’ve read this exceptional novel already, then you’ll know why I can’t help Leggi tutto

An American idyll infused with sex and adolescent (as well as much adult) longing. I adored every single page of this fast-moving, microsociety-under-a-lens type story which depicts the sexual and schoolboy escapades of two friends in a small Texas town. This is the last time things will be like thi Leggi tutto

After Lonesome Dove , I wanted to see what McMurtry's writing was like when he wasn't invoking the Great West. The novel dedicated to the small Texas town where he grew up, The Last Picture Show , is a rather bleak look at life in the 50s. Sonny is in high school with his best friend Duane and still a Leggi tutto

Best read of the year so far. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what I call a real page turner. I couldn’t turn them quickly enough and although this was a very down to earth story (always my favourite kind) I was literally over the moon with it. Bleak and dark (oh, so bleak!!!) with a sprinkling of br Leggi tutto

“…for no reason he could think of life was becoming more complicated.” (4.5 stars) Larry McMurtry is one of those writers whose books I enjoy so much, because they are his books. I think if I had read the story contained in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW written by someone else that I would have hated it. But Leggi tutto

”The only really important thing that I came in to tell you was that life is very monotonous. Things happen the same way over and over again. I think it’s more monotonous in this part of the country than it is other places, but I don’t really know that – it may be monotonous everywhere. I’m sick of Leggi tutto