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Lädt ... Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : Reflections on Sixty and Beyondvon Larry McMurtry
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Lively and very personal account of growing up in West Texas and the sources of his love of books Very poingant depiction of the hard, austere existence of the earliest pioneers and the contrast with his own obsession with books. Some discouraging views on the role and future of fiction and on the myth of the cowboy ( ) If a book - generates some kind of change or action in me, I give it 5 stars. This book is partly a history of reading - and inspired me to ask Nick to write his history of reading at 60, which he has. (Available upon request.) I, more modestly, wrote my obituary in terms of what I've read. What books have you read? and why? How does reading and your life intersect? Larry McMurtry is one of my favorite living novelists, and this set of reflections on literature, the American West, history and his own life is a book I have been recommending since I first read it a few years back. Rereading it with my book club moved me to order a copy, because this is one of the books I want to have in my library. Working in a library and a lover of books and stories since I was a child this book appealed to my senses in numerous ways. After reading it, I finished it just yesterday on an airplane flight from Virginia to Chicago....I feel like I could read it again and again and never grow tired. I love when authors pass along other authors and reads and books that inspired them. McMurtry does this throughout the entire book, enough so, that the interlibrary loan copy I have from UL Lafayette library has several dog-eared pages so I can go back and look up titles. With that said, I feel that I need to own this book for future reference. This book is for anyone who loves memoir, books, stories, history, Texas, cowboys and cowgirls, reading, and reflection. I am happy to have found it and will head over to Amazon.com for a beat up used copy. This one is a keeper. I hope you enjoy as much as I did. This book is about as close a memoir from Larry McMurty as you will likely find. The spans the early years of the McMurtry family and their setteling in the frontier Texas. It's easy to see how McMurtry got the background for all his great western novels. However, just a quickly as he paints a picture of early Texas he moves to his real passion which is buying, selling, collecting and reading books. A fter reading this it's hard to find anyone else that has been so influenced by the written word. McMurtry's knowledge of authors, books and literature is probably unequaled. I am truly amazed at how "well read" McMurtry is. As much as he devotes to how books have influenced his life he gives the reader little else of his personal life. He does open up about his heart problems and how he went through a period where in his words he "couldn't read." If you enjoy reading about what writers like to read and some insight to their libraries then this book is a good read and you should follow it up with his current work titled "Books." keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents a memoir of his odyssey from rancher's son to critically acclaimed novelist, in a reminiscence set against the backdrop of the Lone Star State. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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