This novel is simply amazing. This is a very serious book that attempts, in one sweeping tale, to tell the entire story of the American west. But for me that fact is beside the point. This book is one of those delightfully engaging page-turners that grabs a hold of you and transports you to another world, forcing you to forget your worries. You would have a difficult time finding better entertainment elsewhere.
If you’re put off by westerns, don’t let that steer you away from this wonderful book. You won’t find any silly caricatures here. The characters are richly drawn, and are so multidimensional that they seem more real than most real people you will ever meet. This novel won the Pulitzer prize and rightfully so. Mr. Mcmurtry deserves any accolades we can heap on him for giving us this wonderful masterpiece.
I loved every single page of it. I read it as fast as I could, yet kept trying to slow myself down because I didn’t want it to end. Thankfully Mr. McMurtry chose to write three other companion novels to Lonesome Dove. One is a prequel, and the two others are sequels. If I were you, and was desperately looking for an amazing read, something that would knock me right over, I would rush to buy this novel and its three companions. You may as well get them all. As soon as you finish one you’ll just rush out to get the next one.
Tags: lonesome dove, pulitzer, Western
Gone with the Wind is simply brilliant. This is a true work of art. It proves, without a shadow of a doubt, that superb, masterful fiction doesn’t have to be obtuse and unreadable, like most literary snobs would have us believe. Not only did this novel win the Pulitzer, but has managed, since its publication, to sell in the neighborhood of 25 million copies worldwide. Not an easy feat.
This is a very long novel that flies through your fingers so quickly, you won’t believe you could read that fast. At its core, this remarkable book is simply one hell of a page turner. It reads like a modern fast paced thriller, and it’s definitely a couldn’t put it down winner. But this novel is such much more. It is at once a history lesson, a romance, an adventure story, and a deeply characterized masterpiece.
It has been accused over the years of racism, sexism, revisionism, and of being on the whole nothing more than a fancy Harlequin novel. None of these things could be further from the truth. This novel is really about the end of a way of life, and about how those people most affected by it were changed by the ordeal.
If you haven’t yet read this novel you have absolutely no idea what you’re missing. Pick it up today and prepare yourself for an experience you will never forget.
Tags: civil war, Classic, gone with the wind, margaret mitchell, pulitzer, romance, south
Ender’s Game is considered by many, to be the best Science Fiction novel of all time. It is probably only second in popularity to Frank Herbert’s Dune. Ender’s Game truly is a remarkable novel, one of the few that manages to transcend its genre.
When I started reading Speaker for the Dead, its supposed sequel, I couldn’t wait for it to pick up where the Ender’s story had left off. But it only took a couple of pages for me to be deeply disappointed. It was soon clear this was not really a sequel at all. These weren’t children anymore, and the tone of the novel was far more serious and grown up.
Because Orson Scott Card holds the extraordinary honor of having won both the Hugo and Nebula awards two years in a row, first for Ender’s Game and then for this so called sequel Speaker for the Dead, I forced myself to keep on reading. I am glad I did. This has to be one of the richest, most complex and awe inspiring novels of all time. It astonishingly manages to speak, on many levels, directly to the human condition. This is an amazing thing for a science fiction novel to do.
Speaker for the Dead is in many ways far superior to Ender’s Game. It is by far Orson Scott Card’s crowning achievement, and one that sadly, I fear, he will never be able to surpass. Even sadder however, is how the success of Ender’s Game has so thoroughly overshadowed this far superior, much more important novel. If you’re a fan of Ender’s Game and Orson Scott Card, I implore you to read this novel. If you read it for its own merits and not as a sequel, I promise you, you won’t be disappointed.
Tags: award winner, ender's game, hugo, Mystery, nebula, orson scott card, speaker for the dead
This was my first, and still my favorite Elmore Leonard book. I’m not sure what combination of factors brought the whole thing off to such great effect, but I loved it. This novel spurred me on to read Elmore Leonard’s entire body of work.
Considering there are over 40 novels to his credit, you would think this was no easy task. But in fact, the opposite is true. I flew through most of them, and my only regret to this day is that there aren’t more of them.
Killshot is a fast paced, intricately plotted crime novel that’s like nothing else you’ve ever read. The characters couldn’t be more colorful or real, and the story just keeps you turning pages. If there is one book that embodies the essence of the couldn’t put it down winner, this is it.
P.S. There’s finally a movie based on this book that should be hitting theaters soon. I just hope Hollywood doesn’t screw it up.
Tags: Crime, elmore leonard, killshot, Thriller
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