Pretty Boy Floyd

Get over it people, not every book by Mr McMurtry is going to be as good as Lonesome Dove or the other books in that series. However, this book has a simple and easygoing feel to it. Very natural and well crafted. Good story, well paced and great character development. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

This book, as usual, was well written as are most of the authors work. It was hard to tell when poetic license becameFact.

Kept me hooked the whole way. I always have a couple of students who check it out from my classroom library every year too.

I think this book would have much better if McMurty had of written this book himself. It was a so-so read that could have been much much better.

Good book. Good condition.

As close to the real Charles Author Floyd, placed in a novel, as I have read. I am a native of Sallisaw, Okla. I did meet his brother E.W. when I was a young man while E.W. was serving as sheriff of Sequoyah County. We met on good terms I might add.

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It was so good. I literally couldn't put it down. A friend recommended it to me and I'm sad I took so long to get around to reading it.

This is by far one of most favourite books of all time.Brilliantly written and composed.

auch dieses kombibuch, groß artig spannend: history as it should be it is always magic with mcmurtry and diana is quite a girl

I don't understand the review by the (supposed) professor...because I don't think he understood this is a work of FICTION. Though it's loosely based upon an historical outlaw, it is a story told by FICTION WRITERS. It was funny, sad, full of colorful, clever, original dialogue, that made me feel as if I knew these characters inside and out. Pretty Boy was considered a folk hero in the late twenties and thirties, professor sir. Read the novel in that context. I think that was the point of the authors--that this was a time and place they wanted to capture with their imaginations, to bring to life for those of us who weren't alive then (and to entertain those who were). It was a rough time, people were poor, hungry, the banks were the enemy because they put entire families out on the streets, with nothing. There was no welfare, no homeless shelters. It was a wild, rough time. I gave this book to my grandpa (a fine, upstanding man if there ever was one), who remembered Pretty Boy Floyd from his own childhood, and he LOVED it!!! If anything, this novel, by the end, shows us how a wrong turn in the road of life can change the course of our entire future...and how hard it is to ever go back...give it a chance, I don't think you'll be disappointed!!!!!