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The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel
The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel | Larry McMurtry
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Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday move across the frontier from Long Grass, Texas, to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver in the latest novel by the acclaimed author of The Last Picture Show and Lonesome Dove. 30,000 first printing.
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Jen2
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Pickpick

Good story. Some problematic things.

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DHill
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This is the first Larry McMurtry I‘ve read. Not my usual genre but here goes.

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jdiehr
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Mehso-so

Read this short book in honor of McMurtry's passing. I don't think it will stick with me for long.

Maybe if I had known more about Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday I would have liked it better.

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Bookzombie
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#3 books that I hated.

The Last Kind Words Saloon - I still wonder if McMurtry needed a little money when he wrote this one.

The Couple Next Door - I just wanted my time back after I finished this one.

Not the Killing Type - I can‘t believe I read seven(!) books in this series. I finally realized the main character was awful.

OriginalCyn620 📚👎🏻📚 4y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks The ending of The Couple Next Door 😱😳 4y
Reggie Ditto on the Couple Next Door. It felt like it tried to be rescued from the Lifetime movie of the week discard pile. It was baaaaad. 4y
Bookzombie @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I forgot what happened, lol. I had to go find a spoiler. 4y
Bookzombie @Reggie It was! 4y
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Biblionut
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Panpan

I hate to have to pan this but I just didn‘t see the point to it. It drops you in at a certain point in a narrative with no backstory and seemed to me to be plotless. If I did not have any kind of knowledge already about Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday I would have bailed. 🙁

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shareyourghost
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McMurtry‘s “ballad in prose” follows Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday through the dying West from Long Grass to Tombstone as they sit on porches, talk shit, and drink. Sometimes they shoot at stuff. Mostly they miss.

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AmyStewart
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Ever pick up a book and absolutely love it and then you go look at what the critics had to say and find out that nobody really liked it but you? Seriously, this book is amazing. It‘s short and funny and weird and told almost entirely in absolutely spectacular dialogue. I didn‘t even know McMurtry got bad reviews, but this one really did not get a lot of love. I‘m mystified.

YouReadMyEyes Sounds cool, you talked me into giving it a try! I‘ve never read him. Lonesome Dove is on my TBR but it‘s SO massive that I just haven‘t wanted to go there yet. 6y
Leftcoastzen I have so much love for his early ones “Horseman pass By “ and 6y
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Beckys_Books Well, if no one else liked it, it's as if Larry wrote it for you! 6y
CityGinger @Beckys_Books that's a lovely thing to say 😍 6y
Leftcoastzen @AmyStewart Please tell me you have read his slim volume about loving books,being a book scout and having several stores over the years. 6y
BethFishReads I love everything he wrote 6y
tpixie I‘ll have to get it for my son-in-law who lives in Dodge City, KS. 6y
MichelleScott_author I‘ve only read Lonesome Dove by him, but it was an excellent book. 6y
TheBookgeekFrau Read this years ago, really enjoyed it. Glad to see it still around😊 6y
TheBookgeekFrau @Leftcoastzen Thank you for the new add on my wish list. Don‘t know how I missed that one 6y
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Rachbb3
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My Barnes and Noble #bookhaul

Most are classics. I was very intentional by preparing for the #Litsyclassics challenge. 😁

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great haul!!!! 📚📚 6y
Texreader Wonderful haul!! 6y
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Bookzombie
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#splashintosummerreads Day 10 I love McMurtry and Lonesome Dove is one of my favorites. I was excited to read a book with Earp and Holliday written by McMurtry, but this was so disappointing. It's too short and there was no plot. #biggestletdown

Bklover Good to know- will stay away from this one. I'm a Lonesome Dove fan too! 7y
Reviewsbylola Someday I will read Lonesome Dove. Hopefully with @Cinfhen 😃 7y
Cinfhen Haha 😂 shit, I better start watching my buddy request list more carefully...but I totally want to read this @Reviewsbylola 7y
Reviewsbylola 😂😂😂 I've been keeping a list. 😉 @Cinfhen 7y
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Bookzombie
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#Marchintoreading Day 4 I feel like I'm a pretty big fan of McMurtry, but this book was so disappointing. The main characters are Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday so it should have been freaking great! #didntlikeitstillfinished

Halle770 Have you read Doc by Marie Doria Russell? It is amazing!! 7y
LeahBergen I heard it sucked, too - and I'm a huge McMurtry fan. I still picked up a copy at a thrift shop because ... Doc and Wyatt?! 7y
LeahBergen @Halle770 I really enjoyed Doc, too. I need to pick up 7y
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magictoyshop haven't had the chance to read McMurty but this is a lovely cover 💕💕 7y
Halle770 @Wife I hold you enjoy! 7y
Bookzombie @Halle770 I haven't but it's on my TBR along with Epitaph. 🙂 @LeahBergen Maybe you will like it. I just wanted more from it. It's also rather short. 7y
Bookzombie @magictoyshop I still have more of his to read but I loved Lonesome Dove and Streets of Laredo. I do love this cover though. 7y
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Joshsandaker
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Pickpick

Listed as a novel but it has the length and spirit of a novella. First of McMurtry I've read so I can't compare but I love the way the story demystifies Wyatt Warp and Doc Holliday and the Old West. Story ends with the gunfight at the OK Corral, which turns out to be not much more than a whimper.

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Joshsandaker
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"his screams could be heard for a long time, along with those of a tall boy who had his genitals cooked over a small fire that Satank himself had carefully nursed along." Ah, the sweet Romanticism of the Old West.

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