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.

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.

There are billions of us on this planet. Oddly enough every generation seems to produce only a handful of truly remarkable individuals, geniuses without parallel whose mere existence seems to redefine, bring into focus and distill what it means to be human.

Cormac McCarthy is one such individual. With this Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece he gifts humanity an outstanding work of art that will forever be an integral part of our collective psyches.  Just as Victor Hugo did in Les Miserables, Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea,, and Dostoyevsky in , Crime and Punishment, Cormac McCarthy manages to encapsulate the best and the worse of the human spirit.

In this gripping, at times horrific, tale of a father’s love for his son all that we are and all that we can be is brought into sharp, brutal focus. On top of it all, unlike most classics, this magnificent achievement manages to be at its core an honest to god can’t put down page turner.