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BBM and Lonesome Dove
Brown Eyes:
Thanks Marie! :)
I'm now about 100 pages into the book, and I'm really liking it. The pace of it is reminding me more of Lonesome Dove than Dead Man's Walk. The moments of high drama and the moments of relative quiet, character back-story, etc. seem well timed and well interspersed- as seemed to be the case with LD for me. My overall impression of DMW was that the grim, dire, extremely dramatic material was a little too constant. Clearly, I still have a ton to go in Comanche Moon, but so far so good!
LOL, and this may seem silly, but I keep finding it amusing that one of the main characters so far in CM has the first name of Inish. Which, seems like it must sound a lot like Ennis when pronounced outloud. I'm not saying that I see any parallels between that character and Ennis.... but the names just strike me.
mariez:
--- Quote from: atz75 on November 18, 2009, 09:44:01 pm ---Thanks Marie! :)
I'm now about 100 pages into the book, and I'm really liking it. The pace of it is reminding me more of Lonesome Dove than Dead Man's Walk. The moments of high drama and the moments of relative quiet, character back-story, etc. seem well timed and well interspersed- as seemed to be the case with LD for me. My overall impression of DMW was that the grim, dire, extremely material was a little too constant. Clearly, I still have a ton to go in Comanche Moon, but so far so good!
LOL, and this may seem silly, but I keep finding it amusing that one of the main characters so far in CM has the first name of Inish. Which, seems like it must sound a lot like Ennis when pronounced outloud. I'm not saying that I see any parallels between that character and Ennis.... but the names just strike me.
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Yes, I think LD and CM have more in common stylistically than DMW. Not to say CM won't have plenty of grim and diire moments, but there is more of a variety of plotlines and themes than DMW. And LOL at Inish - that's right!
Brown Eyes:
LOL, yeah, I'm expecting the dire content... and I do like the super dramatic moments/ story-lines. But, it's nice to have it in doses. At least for me. :)
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: atz75 on November 18, 2009, 09:44:01 pm ---Thanks Marie! :)
LOL, and this may seem silly, but I keep finding it amusing that one of the main characters so far in CM has the first name of Inish. Which, seems like it must sound a lot like Ennis when pronounced outloud. I'm not saying that I see any parallels between that character and Ennis.... but the names just strike me.
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Hmm, I just acquried a DVD called The Secret of Roan Inish. Haven't seen it yet. I'll let you know of enni parallels. Getting ready for my trip next summer to the fair isles!
Brown Eyes:
Heya,
I thought I'd revive this thread! I'm here to report that I'm still reading Comanche Moon. I'm a couple hundred pages into it and still have a ways to go. Clearly, this one is going more slowly for me than the other two that I've read so far. But, that has a lot to do with my reading pace (for a while I was just reading one little section at a time) and the fact that I took several weeks off around the holidays. I took Comanche Moon up again in earnest this week.
And, as usual, my overall impression is that, wow, McMurtry really is quite a storyteller. Really impressive. And, my main lingering question as I read a lot of the scenarios he describes is... I'd love to know what his research and writing methods were. How many of the aspects of Comanche culture are based on some kind of real research that McMurtry did, and how much is pure fiction and just part of McMurtry's storyweaving? I imagine that all the Lonesome Dove books must have taken a great deal of research - about historic western culture, old cowboy habits, Native American history, etc. This one, in particular, with its goal of showing a lot more of the narrative from the Native American perspective I find this question particularly interesting.
Anyway, I also love learning more about Maggie and Clara. I think one of McMurtry's greatest strengths is shifting perspectives around from character to character. I love getting some first-person perspectives from Maggie and Clara, in addition to the rangers, the Comanches, etc.
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