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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comache Moon takes us once again into the world of the American West. Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow Call, now in their middle years, continue to deal with the ever-increasing tensions of adult life -- Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe, and Call with Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him. Two proud but very different men, they enlist with the Ranger troop in pursuit of Buffalo Hump, the great Comanche war chief; Kicking Wolf, the celebrated Comanche horse thief; and a deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for torture. Assisting the Rangers in their wild chase is the renowned Kickapoo tracker, Famous Shoes. Comanche Moon closes the twenty-year gap between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove, following beloved heroes Gus and Call and their comrades in arms -- Deets, Jake Spoon, and Pea Eye Parker -- in their bitter struggle to protect the advancing West frontier against the defiant Comanches, courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Larry McMurtry | | Paperback: | 720 pages | | Publisher: | Simon & Schuster | | Publication Date: | October 17, 2000 | | ISBN: | 0684857553 | | Package Length: | 7.8 inches | | Package Width: | 5.3 inches | | Package Height: | 1.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 140 reviews |
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 real characters, in three dimension Jun 05, 2008
I wish I had read the book before I saw the movie. So much more realism in the book. The characters seem to jump out of the pages and become real. I cant wait to get back to reading after I have stopped. I want to finish this so I can get to the next book.
Excellent product and service Apr 07, 2008
I ordered the Lonesome Dove series of books by Larry McMurtry from Amazon and as usual the product was great, the packaging was excellent and the service prompt. I was very pleased with everything. Thanks!
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 Ignore Gus and Call, the best parts lie elsewhere Mar 27, 2008
This book is divided into 3 parts, the first two of which cover a series of events resulting in Gus and Call's completion of their first mission as captains. Book 3 begins several years later and meanders through a wrap up of sorts, with one last adventure at the end. This kind of creates a splotchy pattern where the stories don't have a central connecting point and tend to kind of drift.
Most will read this book because it covers the time before "Lonesome Dove" when Gus and Call and the boys are Texas Rangers. As it is though, Gus and Call's roles in the story are not satisfying and really seem kind of pointless. We never see them win any great battles or do much to earn the fame alluded to in Lonesome Dove, nor do we get much info on how they developed their great skills as displayed in Lonesome Dove. Their relationships with Maggie and Clara are basically what would have been expected by someone who's read Lonesome Dove, and Gus's 2 marriages are hardly touched on. The few good nuggets come from a handful of conversations between the two, which take a very different tone than those of "Lonesome Dove," and help to explain how they ended up spending so much of their lives together.
The other major characters of the story, however, are everything they should be. The Stories of Inish Scull, Kicking Wolf, Ahumado, Buffalo Hump, Blue Duck, and Famous Shoes are well written and insightful. The Indians are particularly compelling, and I found myself siding with Buffalo Hump and Kicking Wolf as often as I did with the Texans.
Overall, Gus and Call could almost have been written out of the story. It would have been slimmer and it would have been easier to focus on the real stars of the story. The ultimate result is a story that has wonderful high points but breaks apart because it spends too much time covering repetitive side stories for the sake of mentioning certain people's names.
Good prequel Feb 22, 2008
A story that covers an era in the west that is not well covered by other authors, the same could be said for his other prequel, "Dead Man's Walk." I love the human writing of this author, where characters are portrayed in a more human fashion with both the beauty and the warts, the inherent goodness and the fatal flaws that are an integral part of real people.
Gus & Call Feb 07, 2008
Just finished Comanche Moon, a colorful tale of wild adventure out in the old west. A few really great characters in this book. Cowboys, Indians, Bandits, Whores....the wild west of the 1800's. I'm just a huge fan of this genre, looking forward to more of the same.
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