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Larry McMurtry - Roads: Driving America's Great Highways

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Average Rating: 3.5
 
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15 out of 15 people found this review helpful.

Larry does nonfiction well, too.

Date of Review:  Aug 22, 2000
Review: I picked up this book today - and read it today. I was unable to put it down. This is a nonfiction account of 9 months last year and nine road trips the author took.

It's not a book about sights seen along the road, such as the biggest ball...
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  4.0

by: jenzahara
Recommended to buy: Yes

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descriptive and real
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

Endless, monotonous highway; endless, monotonous book

Date of Review:  Mar 8, 2001
The Bottom Line: avoid this book if at all possible; nothing of merit in it
Review: Usually I am fascinated by Larry McMurtry's novels - the characters are compelling, the plots full of twists, and, what I like best of all, he seems to have a way of finding the perfect descriptive phrase, the phrase that makes you put the book down...
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by: jiya
Recommended to buy: No

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I checked it out from the library so at...
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free of plot, free of direction, free...
 
4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

A road map to Larry McMurtry's heart

Date of Review:  Sep 28, 2000
Review: It's been said that the Interstate Highway System finally made it possible to travel from one coast of America to the other without seeing anything.

But "Roads," Larry McMurtry's new collection of essays, part Jack Kerouac, part William...
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  5.0

by: RonFranscell
Recommended to buy: Yes

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A new perspective on a great writer
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Only one piece of the puzzle
 
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I'm such a Sucker...

Date of Review:  Dec 2, 2000
Review: for anything written by this man that I've spent good money to be deeply disappointed many times over, and enjoyed myself anyway. There's just something about how he writes which I find so captivating, even when he poops out and goes for yet another...
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  3.0

by: lizziem
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Unpretentious travelogue, easy reading.
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Too easily dismisses certain states or...
 

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