# RIP Larry McMurtry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [March 26, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-larry-mcmurtry/938785 "2021-03-26T17:01:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-larry-mcmurtry/938785/1 "2021-03-26T17:01:59Z")
I can still remember a friend who read maybe one book a year toting the massive “Lonesome Dove” around everywhere, and a few months after she was done, she started again. That was the kind of writer he was, and there hasn’t been anyone quite like him since. RIP. [Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84 - The New York Times (nytimes.com)](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/larry-mcmurtry-dead.html) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-larry-mcmurtry/938785/2 "2021-03-26T17:11:02Z")
He also ran one of the largest bookstores in the country. While still pumping thick books out. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-larry-mcmurtry/938785/3 "2021-03-26T17:27:11Z")
My sister gave me her copy of “Lonesome Dove” when I was leaving on a long plane trip. I told her “Nah, I don’t like westerns”! She insisted. It’s one of my all-time favorite novels; brilliantly written and plotted, with unforgettable characters. I need to reread it. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-larry-mcmurtry/938785/4 "2021-03-26T21:00:59Z")
A master of characters. Can’t complain about a career like that and getting to 84. Pretty good job. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-larry-mcmurtry/938785/5 "2021-03-26T22:52:53Z")
My favorite author- loved every minute with Gus & Call (and many other characters)as well as other works. He deserved his long life and a successful career. I highly recommend Lonesome Dove (and most of the sequels, the only one I don’t regularly re-read is Streets of Laredo) on audio, recently “re-read” it this way and it was wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-larry-mcmurtry/938785/6 "2021-03-26T23:25:35Z")
His son is no slouch as a writer, either–just writes music instead. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-larry-mcmurtry/938785/7 "2021-03-27T00:46:46Z")
Dang. 😢 Loved his Lonesome Dove series but also greatly enjoyed nearly everything else I read of his including the Duane Moore books (read the first three). And yes, I also like his son’s music. 🙂