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Title: The LAST PICTURE SHOW : A Novel by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0-684-85386-8 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 14 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.13 (30 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best of its kind
Comment: Larry McMurtry, probably America's most uneven 'great' writer, produced at least one masterpiece of contemporary storytelling, The Last Picture Show. This book is so true to its time and place, so honest in its language and its character's actions, that one comes to feel that these are real people that one has known - and maybe loved - for a long time. The story is so direct and the characters are so simple and ordinary that the emotional empact of the book comes as some surprise. One doesn't expect that the stuff of great emotional intensity could be built on such a prosaic foundation.
All of McMurtry's really good books have been turned into better than average cinema. I think it's a toss up as to whether the movie or the book is better in this case, but there can be no question that the book is an American classic and will be read with pleasure (and tears) by generations.
Now, if we could just keep him from bad sequels - like Texasville . . .
Rating: 5
Summary: A true slice of Americana
Comment: Larry McMurtry is one of the finest American authors because he knows a simple rule to writing. KISS...Keep it simple, stupid. This story works because he didn't try and fill it with zany plot twists or artifical characters. Their isn't a false passage in the book and their isn't an instant of when the characters don't act like simple human beings. Anyone who has read this should see the 1971 film version by Peter Bogdanovich. It works the same way the book does thanks in no small part to Bogdanovich and McMurtry's screenplay. (They co-wrote it together.)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of McMurtry's Best in Telling it Like it Is
Comment: I have read the book and also seen the movie several times.
True life events in a small Texas town of about 30 years or so ago. I was a young person in just such a town and the events and the characters all ring true. Things happen in small towns just as in big cities and there is a poignant mood throughout this interesting story of teens and adults and all their shared and not so shared human experiences. A worthwhile read.
Evelyn Horan - teacher/counselor/author
Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl Books One - Three
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Title: Moving On by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0671744089 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Wandering Hill : A Novel by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0743233034 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title:The Last Picture Show: Special Edition ASIN: 0767827902 Publisher: Columbia/Tristar Studios Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.96 |
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Title: A Painted House by John Grisham ISBN: 044023722X Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 26 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: By Sorrow's River : The Berrybender Narratives, Book 3 by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0743233042 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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