The first 100 pages or so is a lot of dust and the point of it is almost to show their boring life in Lonesome Dove. I enjoyed the first 100 but many of my friends didnât and said they loved it after that when they left the town. Iâve never met someone who didnât like it after the first 100! Such a beautiful book and one I always go back to. Enjoy!
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Amor Towles returns with a rowdy tale of the misadventures of 4 boys as they attempt to travel the transcontinental Lincoln Highway from Times Square to San Francisco in the 1950s. Towles is one of my all-time favorite authors, his character work literally never fails. I still remember the stars from his other books: Katey Kontent, from rules of civility, climbing the social ladder in NYC (please read my rec for this book, to me its aged like fine wine & is solidified as one of my all-timers), and Count Rostov, from A Gentleman in Moscow, appreciating the small things in life: every detail. That in mind - itâs high praise when I say that Emmett, Duchess, Woolly, and Bobby may be the most memorable characters Iâve experienced in a long time. It's a fun read, filled with great characters, and a whole lotta heart.
Nov 2, 2021
Recently, I made my friend from the Philadelphia are read The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton for the first time. As she was sending me updates about the parts that made her laugh, made her want to cry, made her swoon, I started getting a deep envy for her experiencing it for the first time. Growing up in Tulsa, Oklahomaâthe novelâs setting and Suzy Hintonâs hometownâThe Outsiders has been plastered across my whole life. âStay Goldâ is basically our slogan. It is a story that became immediately important to who I am as a person when we read it in seventh grade reading class. I had not read the novel since then, though, despite having seen the movie dozens of times. So I decided it was time for a re-read. Where my friend took a slow approach to the novel, reading it over the course of a month or so, I devoured it in around two days, reading the last 140 pages of the 180 novel last night in a single sitting. As soon as I started reading Ponyboyâs story of his childhood and his friends-turned-family, it consumed my every waking thought. I welled up multiple times, a rather difficult feat for me, and was delighted to find I loved it even more than that first time I read it. What I wasnât expected to experience while reading it, however, was the deep sense of homesickness it brought me. I havenât lived in Tulsa since I was eighteen years old, though throughout my undergrad I was only four hours away and returned home often. Now, I live in Philadelphia, which is either a 20-hour car ride or a 5â6-hour flight plus a layover. I was alone during Christmas, a fact that didnât seem to bother me much as I donât really enjoy the holiday. But, reading about the familiar yet unnamedâor pseudonymized, at leastâstreets of Tulsa, through Ponyboyâs narration with Suzyâs scarily accurate depiction of the Okie accent, I felt an undeniable urge to be back there. To drive down the roads I know by heart, to hang out in Walmart parking lots with my friends like we did as teenagers, to eat at Braumâs, to smile and wave at strangers at the street without being glared at. Iâm glad I moved away, but Tulsa will always be important to me, and re-reading The Outsiders proved to me just how much it informs my life today.
All this rambling is to say, if you have never read The Outsiders, or havenât read it since seventh grade like I hadnât, itâs a great time to do so. Even if youâve never heard of Tulsa, the found family and commentary on class disparity through the eyes of a too-roughened kid will reach your heart in ways you wonât suspect.
Dec 31, 2024
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i know⌠the worst guy you ever met had half this book stuffed in his messenger bag and made out like he was a genious for reading what seems like the longest book of all time. fuck that guy. itâs genuinely a good read. take it slow, dont feel pressured to get through it quickly. thereâs enough bouncing around from character to character that it doesnât stagnate. i read it on several 5 hour plane rides over ~2 years and have had a tender place in my heart for it ever since. itâs also afaik the place where my Capitalizing for Emphasis comes from. reading it now is extra neat bc of how many little things dfw got right about the future. did i say neat i meant scary
Feb 28, 2024
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