SUMMARY The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry ´ 1 SUMMARY REVIEW ↠ IBCTHAI.CO ´ Larry McMurtry In a small dusty Texas town it introduces Jacy Duane and Sonny teenagers stumbling towards. Best read of the year so far This ladies and gentlemen is what I call a real page turner I couldn t turn them uickly enough and although this was a very down to earth story always my favourite kind I was literally over the moon with it Bleak and dark oh so bleak with a sprinkling of brilliant and intelligent humour this was a totally unforgettable story full of eually unforgettable characters As much as I loved Lonesome Dove and was truly impressed with McMurtry s powerful storytelling skills I wasn t expecting to love this novel as much as I did WOW Let me try and explain clearly why I think this is a great novel By now most of you friends who ve been following my reviews know I m from a tiny little village in the southwest of Portugal What you don t know is how small that small little village actually is so I m going to tell you now so we all can be sure that I know perfectly well what I m talking about We re talking about a place with 500 inhabitants in the 1980 s Yes you read it correctly 500 people living in the middle of nowhere Some didn t even have a TV at the time Can you imagine it Maybe you can t and maybe you never will but I do as I ve been there That s where I learned most of what I know now and lived my teenage years In that small little village I learned that we re all made of the same material and we all want the same things in life Love and understanding Love and companionship And sex obviously McMurtry has also been in that same little place He knows how it feels He wouldn t be able to tell a story like this just by using his imagination I know he also felt it in his skin and bones I know he also felt like he had all the time in the world to observe people in the same way one would look at a goldfish swimming around and around all day in its bowl Hell I know some people there better than I know myself and I m sure some of them feel the same way about me Even McMurtry so far away in Texas knows me well Oh so well Between Georgia just by using his imagination I know he also felt it in his skin and bones I know he also felt like he had all the time in the world to observe people in the same way one would look at a goldfish swimming around and around all day in its bowl Hell I know some people there better than I know myself and I m sure some of them feel the same way about me Even McMurtry so far away in Texas knows me well Oh so well

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SUMMARY The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry ´ 1 SUMMARY REVIEW ↠ IBCTHAI.CO ´ Larry McMurtry This is one of McMurtry's most memorable novels the basis for the film of the same name Set. An American idyll infused with sex and adolescent as well as much adult longing I adored every single page of this fast moving microsociety under a lens type story which depicts the sexual and schoolboy escapades of two friends in a small Texas town This is the last time things will be like this therefore the adjective Last in the title It is exuisite very fun to get through Anecdotal power at its height Larry McMurtry should ve won the Pulitzer Prize for this one perhaps so than for his behemoth Lonesome Dove gasp This is what s great about America not a Rockwell portrait not a ride down the Mississippi with Huck This is on the cusp of modernity at the stirrings of current globalization The Story of the Death of The Small American Town

SUMMARY The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry ´ 1 SUMMARY REVIEW ↠ IBCTHAI.CO ´ Larry McMurtry Adulthood discovering the beguiling mysteries of sex and the even baffling mysteries of lo. I cannot understand how this book has received such high ratings It was only the second book I have ever been unable to finish due to pure distaste for it It s described as a coming of age story but all I picked up on was that this is a fucked up town full of fucked up people For instance Duane and Jacy The star couple of the high school Jacy s family is rich Duane is poor Jacy s parents don t like Duane blah blah blah Typical storyline for a rich girl and a poor boy Jacy is thinking of going all the way with Duane even though they won t be married until after school Blah blah blah right Well at first I was rooting for Duane the poor kid who landed the rich girl who doesn t care that he s poor Then one night Jacy goes to a party with the rich kids Duane is pissed off and he and his friends get drunk and decide to do the most normal thing on that Friday night chase down the blind cow on someon e farm and have sex with it That s right a bunch of teenage boys and one cow I m pretty sure the term cow orgy was used by the author So how can I go on rooting for Duane to have sex with Jacy when he has put his dick in a cow Forget that This ins t the only thing I read in the book that grossed me out but I won t go into the rest of itAll I can say is that I can t enjoy a book if I don t identify with or at least partially like a character At least ONE character Almost all the people in this book are fucked up This isn t a painting of small town life This is a book about a car crash in the form of words If I can save at least one person from reading this book my job is done