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Title: Disappointed
Review: If anyone but Larry McMurtry had written this, I very much doubt it would have been published. I would classify the book as "an expanded outline of a novel" or a short story rather than a novel.What happened to the McMurtry who wrote "Lonesome Dove?" Has he become so infatuated with himself that he has forgotten how to tell a story and infuse flesh into his characters"I think the story here and the characters are a good basis for a decent novel. But "killing off" one his most potentially interesting characters -- Grandpa -- so early leaves you wondering why he was introduced in the first place. It gets worse with the treatment of the Indian and the priest.The hard cover edition is dreadfully short. Maybe it should have been classified as a short story. The book's large type and larger page margins do not make a novel.Come on McMurtry, you are capable of so much more.
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