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	• Dead Man's Walk : A Novel Larry McMurtry Simon & Schuster, 2000 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 81 reviews view larger image
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Schlock of the Highest Order

"Dead Man's Walk" was my introduction to Pulitzer-Prize winning hack, Larry McMurtry's fiction. A book written in the "what happens next" style of schlocky fiction, much like the Hardy Boys series, like the latter, it is nonetheless hard to put down. Taken for what it's worth, it's a real page-turner that reads easily, makes little, if any, demands on the reader, and provides the same kind of cheap thrills as a Grade B horror movie, or a well-put-together haunted house in an amusement park. There is much more substantial western fiction out there, written by writers with a surer hand, but this book packs its considerable weight in cheap thrills, and offers, as is often said about other western hacks, Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour, a ripping good (if often lamely predictable) yarn.

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4.5

McMurtry's books should be on your list of "Western books to read". This one is no different.

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Dead Mans Walk

Have you ever read any books by Larry Mcmurtry? He has writen a lot of books and one of them is Dead Mans Walk. This book takes place in Texas in the 1800s. The main characters are Call and Gus. They sign up for the service and have many adventures through hot desert missing death time after time. This book is very good and I recmonid it because it is adventrus.

Best book I've read in a long time

I started the Lonesome Dove series in the middle of the summer with Dead Man's Walk. I have to say, this was the best series I've ever read, and each book is fantastic. I think Dead Man's Walk was my favorite, but only by a slim margin. I don't read westerns and I'm not particularly interested in the frontier, but these books brought the era to life for me. I strongly recommend reading them -- in order -- from start to finish.

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