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Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove)
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Struggling with the harsh frontier as young Texas Rangers, Gus and Call share life-changing adventures with deadly natural disasters, incompetent officers, cunning Native American warriors, and romance. Reprint. TV tie-in. NYT.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780671001162
ISBN: 0671001167
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: 1996-06-01
Publisher: Pocket
Studio: Pocket
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Review for those who haven't read Lonesome Dove. -
As stated in the title this is a review for those who have yet to read any of the Lonesome Dove novels. This is the first novel chronologically of the series and I am reading it as such. My reviews will be written with that in mind and with absolutely no comparison to Lonesome Dove, the Pulitzer Prize winning novel that is the center piece to this historic series. I have read a lot of the criticism of the books in this series that are not titled Lonesome Dove and that seems to be the biggest problem with them. Everybody compares them to Lonesome Dove and I find that criticism to be unwarranted.
Dead Man's Walk by Larry McMurtry introduces us to Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call (Gus and Call). These two young, impressionable rapscallions yearn to be part of the highly-regarded Texas Rangers. They long to roam the plains of the west and kill any Indian that gets in their way. Although these two are inseparable friends they could not be more different characters. Gus is a boozing, womanizing fellow who seems to be constantly drunk and in search of "working girls". When he meets a young, pretty gal working for her dad in a general store he becomes smitten and, although he still preferred the company of women (you should know what kind I am referring to), this does seem to be a turning point in his character. He becomes braver, more sure of himself. He will stop at nothing to return to his beloved woman and marry her. Call, on the other hand, is a tough respectable good-ole boy who keeps his nose clean and knows how to save a penny.
When these boys do join the Texas Rangers they underestimate the taxing journeys these men actually take. They also underestimate the ruthlessness of the Ranger's sworn enemy: the Indian. And in this case it's the Comanche, and specifically Buffalo Hump. Buffalo Hump is the war leader of the dreaded Comanche Indians; he is more viscous than all the other Indians together.
The Rangers now must find a way to New Mexico directly through Comanche territory. The arrogance of some of the Rangers quickly disappears when they get their first taste of the Comanche and Buffalo Hump. Also with the Comanche: Kicking Wolf, the world's greatest horse thief. He will take a horse when you are sleeping even if you have the reins in your hand. You will be left with nothing but a few feet of leather. So how will the Rangers survive the plains, while avoided the Comanche? Do they get to New Mexico alive? Of a camp that was made up of 200 how many will be walking to New Mexico? Do they want to get to New Mexico? What is the Dead Man's Walk? You will find the answers to these questions amid the pages of this wonderful cowboy-and-indian epic. I found the pages to turn very easily. The character development for the other characters not named Gus and Call is slightly lacking but who is this series really about? The only thing keeping me from reading Comanche Moon (the next novel chronologically) is this sentence.
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The best prequel to ANY book. Period. -
I am reading this book now and am in Part IV. I really enjoy it b/c it keeps my attention (something a lot of books don't do for me). The encounters of Gus and Call are fitting, and this is a good story about their years before they take on LONESOME DOVE, probably the best example of western writing yet to date.
First in the series -
What a great way to start. I love the background on the characters I fell in love with in Lonesome Dove. Can't wait to complete the whole series.
hold onto your seat -
the hardship of the rangers during their expedition through the desert of the dead man walk. no water. lost of men,comanche,and the mexican soldiers, started with few hundred men, only 10 of them left.and san antonia fort, with white and black beans control their lifes. live or die.
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No lonesome dove -
First of all let me say I loved 'Lonesome Dove'. Loved it. Loved the story, loved the characters, and consider it a classic. Regrettably this isn't in the same league. Most of the dialogue is so stupid it insults the intelligence and the characters seemed cartoonish at best. In fact the whole book felt like a comic book. I found myself skimming over pages until I just couldn't take it any more. At page 310 I skipped to the end, an ending which ranks as one of the dumbest endings I've ever encountered in fiction. I gave it two stars because I did get 300 pages in before calling it quits.
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