It was a good book. Not sure I would have awarded the Pulitzer Prize, though. I liked that it was long and sweeping, and I certainly became invested in the characters. I have always liked westerns. It was like a prequel to the lonesome dove series, which I loved.

I enjoyed going back and picking up the characters as younger becoming the men of Lonesome Dove. The stories were riveting to the point that I covered the entire book in only three days. McMurtry covers a wide range of emotions in a very realistic manner.

It was okay, but just okay. I am glad to have finished the four-book series, but this one does not stand out to me among them. Lonesome Dove was definitely the best of the four. This one seems to focus a little too much, in my opinion, on torture scenes and that got to me a little. The narrator was okay, but I often felt as if he affected his voice a little too dramatically.

This is one of my favorite books of all time and I am 65 years old. It is very rare to be hooked on a book from the first page. I was hooked after the first paragraph of Lonesome Dove. The writing is exciting and the characters are real and both comical and interesting. I was transported to a different time in our history . I loved the whole series but my second favorite in the series was "Commanche Moon" which actually takes place in chronological time immediately prior to "Lonesome Dove".

Only listen if you are a huge Lonesome Dove fan... and oddly, I'd recommend you listen to this one last though it is 2nd in the chronology. It will explain a lot of why the characters are so rigid and hardened in Lonesome Dove. This is my least favorite in the Lonesome Dove series. Very unfocussed writing that chases rabbits on the rambling thoughts of many minor characters as if trying to fill up a larger book without really contributing more to the story. It's like how you could read every other chapter of Moby Dick and still get the whale chase story... unneeded fluff and lacking in cohesion on the three parts of the book. Not my favorite but a necessary part of the story.

McMurtry is always entertaining! This 24 hours flew by.

great book awesome narrator

Very good "read"!

Excellent presentation and writing enjoyed this book very much