The surgery seemed to have brought on an attendant nervous breakdown in McMurtry. He wrote extensively on this period in his new non-fiction work, Walter...
Hi,<br>I don't know if anyone will notice but I<br>just joined the club.I am a huge fan of Larry's<br>books.I am almost finished with Duane's Depressed...
Hi fellow members. I'm a long-time Larry McMurtry <br>fan and a native Texan. I'm rereading the series<br>on Patsy Carpenter: Moving On and Terms of ...
I heard a rumor a couple of months ago that Larry McMurtry had brain cancer. Anyone know anything about that? By the way, I'm a native Texan who visited ...
Let's get a discussion going! Example: Which appeals to you most and why: the characters from the Lonesome Dove books or those from the Last Picture Show...
I've never read a McMurtry book I didn't like!!<br>My favorite character, hands down, has to be No-Ears!!! Rolled laughing at him. Favorite section was in, I...
I agree. Although, I'd really enjoy seeing a movie adaptation of "Duane's Depressed". I think they could do a lot with it. Speaking of favorite characters,...
i think that "duane's depressed" was a beautiful ending to a beautiful string of books, and it would be a shame not to complete the trilogy on film. jeff...
I think the parts in the book where he gets so angry over the trash, along the creeks, are priceless. All ecological implications aside, it is hilarious. Had a...
I'm much younger than the "Duane's Depressed" Duane, but I've been going through a similar spiritual journey for about the last year. It's hard to walk ...
I didn't even realize Thalia, was a real town!!<br>I live in the green foothills of West Virginia, so I can relate to clutter. Drive down the road, and see the...
Actually one is already out now. It's a non-fiction chronicle of some roads he has travelled, entitled simply "Roads". This fall his novelization of the Lewis...
Also loved the story of Lewis and Clark told by James Alexander Thom, be is brilliant, and I greatly enjoy his work too. Follow the River, The Red Heart, ...
Just a note to let you know that I've just joined and that I'm currently reading "Terms of Endearment". Yes, I've seen the movie many a times, but I've never ...
Glad to find this club. Love McMurtry's characters and his genius for telling a great story.<br><br>One coincidence is that my last name is Horton (Emma in...
Hello there, I am new to the club; recenly, in a magazine article, I came across the line: "The world is mostly just a boneyard, but pretty in the sunlight."...
I was re-reading Lonesome Dove, and wondered about the the motto Gus used on the Hat Creek sign, Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit. Does anybody know what that...
'Diverse grapes'? Interesting. Yeah, I guess that would be Call and Gus. I've often thought in the back of my mind, 'these two guys are so different, it's hard...
This is probably a stupid question but I'll ask anyway. I want to purchase "COMANCHE MOON" from an online bookstore. There are many forms of the book...
Cindy,<br><br>Any copy of 'Comanche Moon' is probably not condensed, and 'paperback' and 'hardcover' are almost always the same, word for word, even to type...
I just watched the Hallmark movie Johnson County War which Mr. McMurtry was given credits as one of the writers and had a big part in making it. Unfortunately...
