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“Is growin’ up always miserable?” Sonny asked. “Nobody seems to enjoy it much.” “Oh, it ain’t necessarily misearble,” Sam replied. “About eighty percent of the time, I guess.”

April 11, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Last Picture Show – 4/5 Stars In this novel, Sonny and Duane (along with their various and interchanging townsfolk) are in their small Texas town during their senior year of high school trying to figure out what their present is, and maybe what their future is. There’s no past to speak of. So the boys are stuck, playing sports, drinking and driving, whoring, trying to get married, and not doing their schoolwork (napping or otherwise in class). There’s nothing but questions in this book, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: horseman pass by, Larry McMurtry, leaving cheyenne, thalia, the last picture show

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:103 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: horseman pass by, Larry McMurtry, leaving cheyenne, thalia, the last picture show ·
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