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Lonesome Dove is a fantastic novel. Easily the best Western I have ever read and one of the best I have read in any genre. I am less of a fan of Streets of Laredo because some of the character development, particularly of Pea and Lorena seemed forced to me. I am also upset by the fact that he retroactively inserts a villain into the events of Lonesome Dove that makes no appearance in the text.
The other two novels are prequels; Dead Man's Walk is okay, but the characters do little more than walk around and react to events. Comanche Moon has a great title.. and besides that seems mostly to be the author checking boxes to fill out the back stories of the characters to get them to Lonesome Dove.
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Bill
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