Read Series: The Last Picture Show
by Author Larry McMurtry
Duane's Depressed (2003)
This is book three in Larry McMurtry's "Last Picture Show" or "Duane Moore" series (whichever is more correct) and continues the saga of Duane Moore, who we met as an high school senior in "The Last Picture Show" (one of my very favorite books and movies) who is now 62 years old and with a still ...
Texasville (1999)
I just finished Texasville this week and have mixed feelings about it. This is Larry McMurtry's sequel to The Last Picture Show, and it takes place in the oil-glut 80s, with many of the characters from the 1950s story. Duane has become an oil millionaire but is going bankrupt, his wife Karla is a...
When the Light Goes (2007)
In this masterful and often surprising sequel to the acclaimed "Duane's Depressed," the Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author of "Lonesome Dove" has written a haunting, elegiac, and occasionally erotic novel about one of his most beloved characters. Duane Moore first made his appearance in "Th...
The Last Picture Show (2015)
Is there a term for a boring omniscient narrator who doesn't commit to any judgment and hardly knows anything except who did what and when? This is almost pure slow action and I found it mostly uninteresting. Maybe I'm spoiled, or maybe this is dated. It was published in '66, but takes place, ...
Rhino Ranch (2009)
Started off really well but ran out of gas (and even editing?) before the end of the story. But it occurs to me that could well have been intentional. This is the last (I assume) in the Thalia series (Last Picture Show, Texasville and Duane's Depressed, unless I've missed some, which would be my ...