I’ve seen the Lonesome Dove miniseries no fewer than 10 times and love it to death. And so when I read the novel, I was blown away by it and by the series again in terms of its adaptation. It’s not a perfect adaptation of what feels like a near perfect novel. So learning much later that there were more books, I was initially thrilled. And then I read Dead Man’s Walk and I was like umm ok, I guess. And the same thing happens […]
I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.
So, you have to understand that Lonesome Dove has been in the background of my life for a long time. Not the story, exactly, just the existence of the book. They filmed the Return to Lonesome Dove miniseries very close from my grandfather’s ranch, on what was the remains of my great-uncle’s ranch before it was turned into 20 acre housing lots. (If there is more apt metaphor for Lonesome Dove, I don’t what it would be). So the existence of the novel has been […]
“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.”
The Last Picture Show – 4/5 Stars In this novel, Sonny and Duane (along with their various and interchanging townsfolk) are in their small Texas town during their senior year of high school trying to figure out what their present is, and maybe what their future is. There’s no past to speak of. So the boys are stuck, playing sports, drinking and driving, whoring, trying to get married, and not doing their schoolwork (napping or otherwise in class). There’s nothing but questions in this book, […]
“If you mean Miss Austen, I don’t find her particularly romantic,” Tasmin declared. “Can’t say that I care much about the marriage arrangements among the middle classes.”
I am reviewing the first two of the books of this series. This whole collection of novels involve the Berrybender Clan, a British “aristocratic” family coming to America in the 1830s for an extended adventure and hunting trip. The tone of the first book is cartoonish and a little goofy throughout. It changes for the second novel, but I will get to that later. The first novel Sin Killer focuses primarily on the oldest daughter, Tasmin, a headstrong and talkative woman, who in an act of […]