Tuesday, July 27, 2021

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

This has to be one of the worst books I have ever read.  It follows the lives of some people whose names I can’t remember.  If I ever knew them.

We are supposed to want to read about these people because, I suppose, they are so colorfully small-town and one-dimensional yet they are so human and complex in their basic-ness.  The author supplies us with all the details of their sex lives.  I guess this is the way we are to see their one-dimensionality blossom into complexity. The whole mess is beyond me.  I found McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove to be along the same lines; I couldn’t get past the first 40 pages.

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