[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

'Lonesome Dove' was a masterpiece, much better than McMurtry's other stuff. It was glorious and sad, ribald and sombre, featuring people often ridiculous, brave, likable, and resilient at the same time, many with obvious and disappointing weaknesses. It was a magnificent display of the beauty and bitterness of life.

[James Ewell Brown Stuart]

Wasn't it though. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones were magnificent. I spent the next six months quoting Gus McCrae a lot.

I read the book and thought it was spectacular. I did not care for any of McMurtry's other stuff either. I don't know. It was like he had only had one good novel in him. But it was a great one.