Horseman, Pass By
By Larry McMurtry

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Jun 25, 2019 Jason Koivu rated it it was amazing
Shelves: fiction, western
This being my first Larry McMurtry book, I didn't know what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised! But boy howdy, he sure does take his time getting around to the story! There's so much in the world to describe and he doesn't seem to want to miss a bit of it. When he does get around to the plot and the action rolls out, it's a regular kick to the gut!
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Oct 01, 2017 Nooilforpacifists rated it really liked it
Shelves: western
This was the start of a 40+ book career, a book he wrote while attending North Texas State. Imperfect, but astounding first work.


"All of them wanted more and seemed to end up with less; they wanted excited and ended up stomped up by a bull or smashed up against a highway; or they wanted a girl to court; and anyway, whatever it was they wanted, that was what they ended up doing without."
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No. He writes great books, but I just don’t read much fiction.

I’m currently reading Empire of the Summer Moon. It’s great.

Horseman, Pass By is a great book. The movie Hud, with Paul Newman, was based on the novel.

I just finished this. I'd started reading it years ago and stopped around 1/3 of the way through & never could remember why. Finally decided to pick it up again a few weeks ago and just finished last week. Around 1/3 of the way through I remembered why I stopped before. So much brutality against women and children....it's not a fun read.
For McMurtry - I've read Lonesome Dove & all the Berrybender Narratives this year, he's an easy read. I'll probably end up reading most of his books at some point

A good history read, first published in 1862. William Stevenson, Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army It is on Google books, free read, and on Kindle a free read.

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Bill, save your money. PM your email and I'll send you the ebook in epub format.




Excellent historical fiction, my favorite genre.

Speaking of which, anyone read Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield? its one of my favorites and is about the Battle of Thermopylae. I try to read it a couple of times a year. I'm reading Tides of War at the moment which is about the Peloponessian war, another good read. Ancient Greek history is a fascinating subject and the detail in those books and his others on the subject are extremely detailed which I find fascinating

Pressler writes with such vividness its as though you're standing there watching the battle.

Oh yeah. It’s brutally honest and tough to read, at times.

Thanks.

Horseman in in my archives.


"Dec 29, 2013 Laura Leaney rated it it was amazing
Maybe the reason I love McMurtry is the powerful way he evokes the emotional truth of a place through its disparate physical details: the way a man slaps his gloves against his leg or “two young dog coyotes trotting along the edge of a ridge” or “a big freezerful of peach ice cream, rich as Jersey milk.”

In the foreground of this story is the narrator, Lonnie, whose heart is an adolescent reservoir of sexual and spiritual longing. He is the stoic poet, a boy who spends many a night beneath the b ...more"

If I could sell it for a profit.

Met him years ago in DIA (Denver) waiting on a flight to DFW. Fascinating guy yet very down to earth and likeable. Need to check this out for sure.