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ReviewJul 19, 2026

On 'The Last Picture Show'

Something about it was good, even if it was bad. Elegiac without being sentimental, McMurtry mourns without consoling as home becomes a waiting room. Loved this. Chapter 10 was kind of crazy, though, ngl lmao

@kouboiiiThe Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry (Dell Paperback First Printing November 1971)

ListJun 13, 2026

American Soil

Books about the kindling of the American soul.

@jpwicksLonesome Dove: A Novel

ListFeb 4, 2026

r/TrueLit Top 100 Favourite Books (2025)

Congratulations to the following 10 works for being inducted into the r/TrueLit Hall of Fame, and thereby disqualifying themselves from consideration for this, and all future, r/TrueLit Favourite Books lists: Moby Dick - Herman Melville Ulysses - James Joyce…

@vedleyLonesome Dove: A Novel

ReviewNov 29, 2025

this is a good book and people should read it!

goes down so easy; classically good prose with no tricks, the likes of austen or munro. i fell right into mcmurtry's world and liked it there. i was surprised by how quickly i inhaled this novel, having begun with no particular interest in cowboys or westerns…

@decubitalLonesome Dove: A Novel

QuoteApr 23, 2025

Harmony

That’s the nice thing about Las Vegas, though. I was never talented like you are, I was just pretty. Nobody would have known what to do with me everywhere else, but here I got to be a feathered beauty.

@anacaThe desert rose: a novel

QuoteFeb 24, 2025

Narrator

Three old cowboys, one of them former Ranger, stopped by to see him in the first week. (...)he let them do the talking. He felt like an impostor. He was no longer the man who had lived the old times; he was no longer even the man who had killed Mox Mox. That…

@anacaStreets of Laredo: a novel

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American Soil

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this is a good book and people should read it!

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On 'The Last Picture Show'

American Soil

r/TrueLit Top 100 Favourite Books (2025)

this is a good book and people should read it!

Harmony

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