Larry McMurtry novels
(Update: It has been a month since my last entry, and there hasn't been another word about far flung job prospects.)
I loved Terms of Endearment and I enjoyed Lonesome Dove. So, in the wake of Larry McMurtry's wonderful screenplay adaptation of Brokeback Mountain, I sought out another of his novels. The library had audiobooks of a four-novel series called The Berrybender Narratives. (I enjoy audio-books because we live in a semi-rural area and I spend half of my life in the car, chauffeuring J. to his activities, mostly.)
Well, I'm in the middle of book 3, and I'll probably finish it, just to see what happens, but...
It's not good. It needs massive editing--information is repeated, in case you've forgotten, I suppose. The characters are extremely irritating, humanly and historically unrealistic, and their actions do not follow consistently from their characterizations. And Larry McMurtry is apparently convinced that his readers love to be treated to vivid descriptions of the most horrifying violent cruelty he can dream up. Unless he based this stuff on historical evidence, I think Native American tribes have reason to be highly offended.
Am I missing something?
I loved Terms of Endearment and I enjoyed Lonesome Dove. So, in the wake of Larry McMurtry's wonderful screenplay adaptation of Brokeback Mountain, I sought out another of his novels. The library had audiobooks of a four-novel series called The Berrybender Narratives. (I enjoy audio-books because we live in a semi-rural area and I spend half of my life in the car, chauffeuring J. to his activities, mostly.)
Well, I'm in the middle of book 3, and I'll probably finish it, just to see what happens, but...
It's not good. It needs massive editing--information is repeated, in case you've forgotten, I suppose. The characters are extremely irritating, humanly and historically unrealistic, and their actions do not follow consistently from their characterizations. And Larry McMurtry is apparently convinced that his readers love to be treated to vivid descriptions of the most horrifying violent cruelty he can dream up. Unless he based this stuff on historical evidence, I think Native American tribes have reason to be highly offended.
Am I missing something?