Loved this book. It is an epic (858 dense-font pages), but worth every minute I spent reading it. Lonesome Dove won the Pulitzer for fiction, and has inspired a ridiculous number of movies and miniseries. My favourite part of the book is when Gus gets ambushed by 12 indians on his quest to rescue Lorie. He immediately knifes his horse to use its body as cover on the open plain, and singlehandedly kills six indian warriors. Gus is a hardass, he breaks a bartender's nose because he isn't quick enough about serving him.
The characters in the book are brilliant, and by the end of the book I felt like I had known them for many years. Because of the books length there is quite of cast of characters you get to know who die before the end of the book. I really liked Janey, who could keep up with a trotting horse and throw deadly rocks like a ninja, and Po Campo who was the American version of the bush tucker man. The journey from the Texas-Mexico border to Montana is full of adventure, and death lurks everywhere.
5 stars!
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