Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Texas state representative suggests banning "Lonesome Dove"
Texas state representative suggests banning "Lonesome Dove" ^

Posted on 03/24/2023 5:57:16 PM PDT by algore

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-50 last

Great grandfather x2.


41 posted on 03/24/2023 7:44:01 PM PDT by waterhill (All you need is a Catahoula and an 870)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: waterhill

You guys may want to read “Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches”.

Who is the famous great-grandfather?


42 posted on 03/24/2023 7:44:05 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: laplata

Yep. Good clip


43 posted on 03/24/2023 7:44:48 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: algore
Not a book for the under 12 set.

Might be ok for the 13-15 set.

I would not worry about it for the 16 and older group.

Should not be assigned for class work.

Blood Meridian is right out though.

44 posted on 03/24/2023 7:56:13 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ("EATING... BABIES.... IS NOT.... COOL!" -Rath)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ansel12

Peta Nacona and Cynthia Parker had a son named Quanah. Quanah had a few wives. My bud is one of Quanah’s grandsons. Cannot ride a horse to save his life. Good salesman though.


45 posted on 03/24/2023 7:56:21 PM PDT by waterhill (All you need is a Catahoula and an 870)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: ansel12

Read that book already. Ely hates most of the books about his family.

Comanche are still around. They have just assimilated more than other tribes. Gonna PM you.


46 posted on 03/24/2023 8:06:14 PM PDT by waterhill (All you need is a Catahoula and an 870)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: kiryandil

Tommy Lee Jones was no slouch, either...

I know dat’s right and he still lives in Texas!!


47 posted on 03/24/2023 8:15:42 PM PDT by Dawgreg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: algore

I loved “Lonesome Dove.” I read it in the summer of ‘92, taking my paperback out to the pool over a couple of weekends and reading at night before I fell asleep. Took me about two weeks and then I recommended it to all of my reading friends.

I admired McMurtry’s versatility as a fiction writer. He also wrote “The Last Picture Show” and “Terms of Endearment,” among many others. He was very adept at making his characters spring off the page and become your friends.


48 posted on 03/24/2023 8:25:40 PM PDT by Allegra
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

McMurty was accused of plagiarism from the auto biography by Andrew Garcia.
“A Tough Trip Through Paradise”

Good read for a young Spaniard kid. quite a bit on Chief Joseph too.


49 posted on 03/24/2023 10:08:32 PM PDT by jcon40 (Machinery is only as good as its design and quality of parts. A citizen is only as good as...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: algore

Though the book contains quite a bit of sexually explicit content, there was no discussion about whether the proposed legislation would also ban the Bible, which has already been challenged in one district.

/\

Neither the Bible
or the Book Lonesome Dove

has pornographic illustrations

or

how to instructions.

Spit.


50 posted on 03/25/2023 6:38:27 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-50 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson