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- From: tmaddox@netcom.com (Tom Maddox)
- Subject: Re: Good Westerns
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.234041.12251@netcom.com>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:40:41 GMT
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- In article <92363.141715U48073@uicvm.uic.edu> Cole Kendall <U48073@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
- >I will admit to having enjoyed Larry McMurtry's _Lonesome Dove_ quite
- >a bit, although Westerns are not usually my cup of tea.
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- I loved the made-for-tv film(s) of it and never felt the urge
- to read the book, Robert Duvall et alia having defined those characters
- for me so well.
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- I felt a bit guilty about this declasse' preference (for a *tv*
- movie, yet) until I saw Cormac McCarthy quoted to the same effect.
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