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browner56: Although separated by half a century and half the country, Thalia, Texas and Empire Falls, Maine could be the same dreary and decaying small town.
I read this book out of curiosity about how it would compare to the movie, diected by Peter Bogdonovich. Apparently, his wife, Polly Platt read the book and recommemded he bring it to film. Thalia Texas, the setting, is a lonely, dreary town, filled with lonely, disenchanted people. The only way the townspeople can fill the lonely void in their lives is through sex. That's it on a nutshell. Some characters are cartoonish, for example, Jacy. She pursues men and sex to enhance her wild reputation. Why? Is sje bored? Is she in competition with her mother? The book could have been better if some of these (and other) character motivations were explored. In this case, the movie was better than the book. ( )
The lonely aches and confusing relationships of a desolate small town in nowhere, Texas, are painfully captured in this classic novel. "It was another one of those mornings when no one was there" - this stark sentence neatly summarises the atmosphere of a bleak, cold and forlorn town in which the well-drawn characters search restlessly for meaning or comfort, or give up hope. McMurtry's writing is direct, plain, and minimally regional in tone, which serves to accentuate the emptiness and heartache around every windswept corner of the plot. As a portrait of a dying community, and the remorseless inevitability of endings, this is fine work of art. ( )
Originally published in 1971. Setting: Archer City, Texas Read too many years ago to remember much about this book, only that it was an easy light read....we were living in Port Hadlock, Washington. I had 3 young kids at the time. I needed easy reads to escape. ( )
I think this is the first McMurty book I've read and I'm glad I did. While The Last Picture Show is fairly short (just 220 pages), McMurty deftly manages to give significant depth to more than half a dozen characters. Oddly, I think the characters he spent the most time with seemed the shallowest (both in development and in personal character). The story is a coming of age tale, a decline of western civilization tale and more. McMurty's writing is topnotch. I'm open to reading more of his work. ( )
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"The Last Picture Show" is lovingly dedicated to my home town.
Eerste woorden
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Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in the town.
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Frank Crawford was not only the town's only drug addict, but he was the one with the best excuse: he had been high-school principal in Thalia, until his car wreck.
"Because life's too damn hard here," Lois said. "The land's got too much power over you. Being rich here is a good way to go insane. Everything's flat and empty and there's nothing to do but spend money."
The only really important thing I cam in to tell you was that life is very monotonous. Things happen the same way over and over again. I think it's more monotonous in this part of the country than it is in other places, but I don't really know that--it may be monotonous everywhere.
"Ruth had rather be sick than do anything. I could have bought a new deer rifle with what she's spent on pills just this last year, and I wish I had, by God. A good gun beats a woman any day."
One you got rich you'd have to spend all your time staying rich, and that's hard thankless work.
It was almost the first time in Sonny's life that he had not been willing to go on and do whatever the crowd was doing.
Romance might not last, but it was something while it did. She looked up in the street and waved at Sam the Lion, but he was looking the other way and didn't notice her and she went back into the empty cafe, wishing for a few minutes that she was young again and free and could go rattling off across Texas toward the Rio Grande.
When she got to college she could start screwing again and there it would probably be altogether great. Fraternity boys were gentlemen and would fall right in love with her when she let them screw her.
"Don't ever say thank you to a woman," she said. "They'll kill you if you do. You let the ladies say thank you."
He had just begun to realize how hard it was to get from day to day if one felt hopeless.
Laatste woorden
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"Never you mind, honey," she said quietly, reaching under the jacket and carefully straightening our the collar. "Honey, never you mind..."
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Thalia Texas, the setting, is a lonely, dreary town, filled with lonely, disenchanted people. The only way the townspeople can fill the lonely void in their lives is through sex. That's it on a nutshell.
Some characters are cartoonish, for example, Jacy. She pursues men and sex to enhance her wild reputation. Why? Is sje bored? Is she in competition with her mother? The book could have been better if some of these (and other) character motivations were explored.
In this case, the movie was better than the book. (