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🌟🌟🌟a bleak look at small town life in Texas in the early 1950s through the eyes of 3 teens coming of age story. Well written story studying the microcosm of small town American. Wow! It wasn‘t the American dream people go on about. More like American nightmare.

Been traveling this weekend for a little anniversary getaway with the hubby, but I still managed to read a bit of the tagged book for #BackListReadathon. I may even finish it tonight. @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks

After finishing and loving Lonesome Dove during the #BackListReadathon last month, I am continuing my Larry McMurtry reading this week with the tagged book.
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I‘ve been thinking about trying to read a book set in or by an author from every US state and then lo and behold, NPR just posted this article on Instagram: check it out here:

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/13/1098827190/what-to-read-summer-travel?utm_campaig...

The tagged book is one of the books for Texas

#oppositeday #first

Last week was a rough one for us bookworms.

📚The Last Picture Show
🖊D.H.Lawrence
🎥Legally Blonde
🎤Lyle Lovett
🎸Lawyers,Guns & Money -Warren Zevon
#ManicMonday #LetterL

#WanderingJune

(Day 5 - #SmallTownBoy)

*The towns don‘t get much smaller than Thalia in the 1950s, where young boys grapple with the lure the big city and the pull of home. McMurtry‘s Texas trilogy (1st & 2nd books are “Horseman, Pass By” & ”Leaving Cheyenne; tagged book is the 3rd) is set in the bleak, rural (read dying) landscapes of mid-20th century Texas, some symbols of which are seen above. McMurtry is shown in the center.

What a fantastic surprise read!
This goes down as a really absorbing book which documents the charters lives beautifully.
It reminded me of Steinbeck in the small town downbeat sentiments. Thoroughly great read :) :)

Picked this up from a charity shop as the cover was so appealing.
I started reading it last night and it's great!
As it says, nit much happens in Thalia but that's what interests me: the lives of the ordinary inhabitants.

Good

I‘m watching the movie now, and I don‘t really like it any more than I liked the book. I‘m grateful the movie does not include the more disturbing parts of the book tho. The acting is good. 🤷‍♀️ I don‘t get why the novel and movie were both so popular.

This book has masterful writing, complex characters, I am sort of interested in reading the next book in the series (because I'm a glutton for punishment, I guess). Mostly the book is just bleak and joyless and icky.

I have such mixed feelings about this book, I‘m having a hard time figuring out what my review will be like. Up early this morning to try to finish it. I‘ll be glad when I‘m done. This photo is the movie theater in Archer City, TX. McMurtry‘s home town and the inspiration for Thalia.

This poignant and quiet look at small town life was so compelling! - @malloryomeara

Honestly, just not for me. The writing was actually very good. The pace was good. The content was a bit much for me. Maybe I'm getting old, becoming a curmudgeon. Too many details I don't need or want to read about. The characters I found to be not very likable. I was a teen once. But I didn't know these people. Published in 1966. I guess things were getting edgy. Summer of love just a few years out.

As the words go in #pepper. I don't mind the sun sometimes, the images it shows. I can taste you on my lips and smell you in my clothes. Cinnamon and sugary and softly spoke lies... #90sinJuly. This is my August read set in Texas and I thought perfect to end this months play list. It was a pretty awesome one. Well done @Robothugs

"... he was what made the days worth confronting."

#rockinmay #smalltown For me, this is the ultimate small town novel. The other books in the Thalia series are also excellent at painting a picture of the relationships in a small town.

File under #bookhaul. Also file under "dude is going to have to strap these to his body like plate armor, since no way will they even come close to fitting in his carryon." But, a HC Sabine Baring-Gould? A The Last Picture show this exquisite? A book called "Guts," with a tagline of "Rock 'n' Roll was the answer for this man out of time"? This much vintage Ramsey Campbell? I was actually physically incapable of not handing my money across.

When you think you're getting a new 800 page Larry McMurtry, and you're so excited that you think you may pass out, only to realize that you've read all these- it's a compendium. And you're really sad. But then, you realize that you read them so very long ago, it will still be ok. Plus, you loved them oodles. But- if you were going to put The Last Picture Show in a collection, why would you put it with other books than the sequels? 🤔

Just finished this candidate for my #BestBookof1966, while gong fu'ing some awesome WuYi rock oolong. #BestReadat50.