Intensely wonderful. Only a true Texan can appreciate fully!

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	• Dead Man's Walk : A Novel Larry McMurtry Simon & Schuster, 2000 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 82 reviews view larger image
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THANKFUL FOR THE PREQUEL

I'LL TAKE ALL I CAN GET OF OUR LONESOME DOVE MEN, CALL AND GUS. NOTHING CAN TOP LONESOME DOVE, I'M SURE WE'D ALL AGREE, BUT DEAD MAN'S WALK IS PRETTY DARN GOOD, TOO. I ENJOYED EVERY WORD AND DIDN'T WANT IT TO END, BUT THE END (WITH THE LEPEROUS WOMAN AND THE SNAKE AND SINGING AND ALL) HAD ME THINKING "GOOD GRIEF..LARRY SURELY COULD'VE COME UP WITH SOMETHING BETTER THAN THIS", BUT THEN AGAIN WEIRD STUFF HAS BEEN KNOWN TO HAPPEN! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, MR. MCMURTRY, CAN WE HAVE A TALE OF GUS AND CALL BETWEEN THE DEAD MAN'S WALK AND LONESOME DOVE YEARS????!!!

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Intensely wonderful. Only a true Texan can appreciate fully!

I love the book. I love the movie. I love it. Larry sucked me right in to the beautiful twisted brain of Woodrow Call. He's a real man. One of whom , it is obvious to me, is now extinct. In a time full of whinny little bastards, it is certainly very refreshing to at least dream of what it must be like to be in the company of such a confident driven man. Jonny Lee Miller did an exceptional job. I found myself wondering if he wasn't actually a closet Texan and not truly from ENGLAND?! What a talent. Larry you are a genious. The Lonesome Dove series is some of the best most accurately written stories I've ever read. I read some of the reviews above. How sad. What an ignorant fool who doesn't understand why this book is perfect! Larry, keep them coming!!! I will never tire of your wonderful tales. Brilliant!

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Supurb unsentimental adventure

I read this before reading Lonesome Dove so I could not compare it at the time. Nevertheless this novel kept me reading breathlessly to the end. Full of raw spirit, realistic descriptions, and free of moral pretensions. Like many of McMurty's work the open endings need to be there. Like life itself, a by the end of the book you know the story just continues - there can be no simple, convenient conclusions. A perfect prequel to Lonesome Dove.

Better than Streets of Laredo, nowhere near Lonesome Dove.

Depressing at times, but in the end very uplifting. One of McMurtry's best, but I will always compare his books to the greatest book I've ever read, Lonesome Dove, and this prequel doesn't quite get there. You will find it hard to put this book down,though, and the ending is one of the most memorable endings imaginable.

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Excellent! Smooth reading, enticing characters.

Sure, nothing can rival Lonesome Dove or Terms Of Endearment, yet, anyway. But this book is so smooth. An easy read that gives you a good feel for what got Call & McCrea started. I loved it, and would love to see some more tales of our two heroes in their younger years! Thanks Larry, a good escape! I'll pass it on.

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