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BBM and Lonesome Dove
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Clyde-B on January 13, 2009, 04:26:04 pm ---I've never been in a book club before, so I don't know how they work. (Other than buying the book and having snacks and drinks every few weeks. :laugh:)
But I've never read "Lonesome Dove" and this sounds like a great excuse!
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:D In our BBM/ LD (LD= Lonesome Dove... not to be confused with Jack's father-in-law :laugh: ) book club, we will be drinking any of the following 3 options... whiskey, Budweiser out of longneck brown bottles, or coffee. Snacks will consist of beans, elk, round steak and cherry cake... and bacon (we'll throw that in there as a nod to Lonesome Dove). And, we will be posting our observations to this thread! Hopefully!
I really think it would be super fun if a group of us read this together. And, the most fun for us will probably be trying to relate it to BBM. The 300+ pages I've read so far really do feel strangely familiar and kind of comforting in an odd way. Really so much is reminiscent of BBM, but at the same time completely different in terms of story.
Front-Ranger:
You might find this post over in The Culture Tent to be interesting
Books by Larry McMurtry, A Memoir
mariez:
What a great idea, Amanda!
Lonesome Dove is one of my favorite books. I've read it several times (and I've seen the mini-series more than once, also), but it's been a few years and I'd love to do another re-read, with an eye toward BBM connections. I'm sure there are all kinds of details I've forgotten. As you point out, it's a large book.
I've read all of the books in the Lonesome Dove series, but I think the first one remains my favorite. I believe Streets of Laredo is the final installment.
By way of warning, there was a sequel to the mini-series made (Return to Lonesome Dove), but it was done without McMurty's blessing and he was not pleased to put it mildly. I read something once where he referred to it as "spurious." I never had any interest in watching it.
Marie
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: mariez on January 13, 2009, 04:48:59 pm ---What a great idea, Amanda!
Lonesome Dove is one of my favorite books. I've read it several times (and I've seen the mini-series more than once, also), but it's been a few years and I'd love to do another re-read, with an eye toward BBM connections. I'm sure there are all kinds of details I've forgotten. As you point out, it's a large book.
I've read all of the books in the Lonesome Dove series, but I think the first one remains my favorite. I believe Streets of Laredo is the final installment.
By way of warning, there was a sequel to the mini-series made (Return to Lonesome Dove), but it was done without McMurty's blessing and he was not pleased to put it mildly. I read something once where he referred to it as "spurious." I never had any interest in watching it.
Marie
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This is great Marie!! I'd love to hear your opinions about the BBM/LD connections as someone who has a great deal of knowledge about LD (the book and mini-series) as well as his other books and, of course, BBM too.
For me, so far, some of the similarities (or points of comparison) are really specific... like the lines ("talks a blue streak" or "not the marrying kind") that appear verbatum in both LD and BBM. And, then there are broader symbolic things that are very familiar from our BBM talks... the moon, bears, drowning...
And, then the sweeping things like the relationships between men.
Of course, there are lots of differences too. And, again, the shift in cowboy culture that occured in only about 100 years is really fascinating to me. It's interesting to see McMurtry applying some of the same concepts to such different time periods, which of course, alters the meaning of some of those concepts.
But, as I mentioned before, I'm only about 300 pages into it and haven't seen the mini series. So, my reactions are still formulating.
twtplanner:
This is a great book and great mini-series. There's even the ol' mysterious line "I swear" said by Newt Dobbs (Rick Schroder) towards the end of the story, when the cattle drive is complete, and one of the drovers who is Newt's best friend, decides to leave. When he rides off, Newt is watching him go and says the line to himself.
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