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Title: A Novel Dissapointment
Review: LM made a mistake when he wrote Lonesome Dove first,that was a first-class can't put down read.I then found Streets Of Laredo and Dead Man Walking entertaining, but started finding the loose application of history disheartening.Once again, history is a bit distorted in Moon, just a minor example being that this novel must be set somewhere between 1855-1860, yet he keeps refering to Winchester and other repeating rifles, which are still somewhere in the future, after the Civil War which has not happened yet. This may seem like nit picking, but as a fan of the historical novel, I like my fictitional characters to interact with history, not change it, and if one was to make a time line with all four of these novels, I'm quite sure there would be some glaring gaps. I'm sure LM is great at sitting down and telling a story, but I believe that Lonesome Dove just got too big for him, this is a good read, not a great read, which makes it a dissapointment.
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