Books: A Memoir
by McMurtry, Larry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1416583343
- ISBN 13
- 9781416583349
- Seller
-
Lewisville, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight carefully read copy. This copy has a bit of soil on the top edge of the text block, several pages that are ceimped on the bottom edge. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. .
Reviews
On Oct 7 2010, Pbpunk said:
My review of Books by Larry McMurtry(2 stars)This is a book I CAN put down rather easily. It has no "juice". Reminds me of an inferior iteration of a W.S. Burroughs cut-up job, randomly incomplete snippets of a bookman's life. I'm about halfway through Books and I am finding it quite lacking on so many levels. McMurtry just gets started with something of interest, and poof, he moves on to something else, almost fascinating, only to leave his reader once again in the dust. It's maddening. Of course I can't stop reading it right in the middle so I will continue through to the end, although I know I will regret losing another hour to finish it.Learning of his early upbringing with no books in the house, I was hooked. When he begins to tell of his growing passion for books, and his fear that this would be a narrative of interest only to others with a similar passion, I became excited to read more. McMurty does not deliver. Rather than holding my attention and awe, I find "books" to have devolved after the first few chapters into something quite dreadful and boring.An author with the ability to write as McMurtry does has cheated an audience he alone might have held in the palm of his hand. Rather than caress fellow bookmen like some fine leather tome he might hold in high regard, he has relegated us to the remainder pile, covers removed...no love at all. It is a shame, as I am certain the depth of his real life in books is far more interesting than the poorly rendered skin of what he has provided here.I noticed McMurtry split up his memoirs into 3 parts. Reeks of over-commercialism, and I already feel like it won't be worth the time to read the other 2. After reading the reviews for those, I definitely won't purchase either of them.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pat Cramer, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029385
- Title
- Books: A Memoir
- Author
- McMurtry, Larry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1416583343
- ISBN 13
- 9781416583349
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- /
- Bookseller catalogs
- Auto-Biography; Memoirs;
Terms of Sale
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
I accept cash, checks, money orders and bank cards. International orders paid by check must be made out to a United States bank branch. International orders paid by money order must be a postal money order made out in United States dollars. You can return any book that you purchase from me if you are not satisfied with it.
About the Seller
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2006
Lewisville, Texas
About Pat Cramer, Bookseller
I have been selling used and rare books internationally since 1985.I tend to list modern fiction because that is what i know the most about.I specialize on horror and suspense fiction because these are two areas that i enjoy most and because they are two areas that I know the most aboutI am not a generalist dealer but I have been known to list a small percentage of anything that looks interesting to me, fiction and non-fiction, to bring new customers to my site.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.