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Larry McMurtry's New Book

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Ellemeno:

--- Quote from: shakesthecoffeecan on October 27, 2010, 06:22:34 pm ---Having now read the book, I can say that it is very interesting. It is rather like a long rambling list of names to drop.

This is McMutry's third memoir and it would probably have been better had I read the first two. There are 40 or so short chapters, one in particular about there being short chapters which is probably the shortest. I learned many interesting tidbits, like the producer of the movie Raise the Titanic! bought the film rights to the book having not read it. Had he read it he might have realize is was a technical manual for how to possibly raise the Titanic, which at that time was still missing.

Much of his Brokeback expierence comes toward the end of the book, and he gives much credit to Diana Ossana for it getting made, and says she may tell her own story of that one day and he does not want to take away from that. He does have a short chapter in which he tells how Annie Proulx came to his book store and bought the bound newsletters of a Ft. Worth Company that specialized in industrial grease.

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I love your review.  I look forward to reading it too.

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