Uva uvam vivendo varia fit
It sure will be nice to know what that means in Latin as the book progresses. I am really happy with the book so far. It makes sense, which is more than I can say for some books. I'm actually picking up a few interesting tidbits like the fact that "fatback" is Western terminology for our "bacon".
McMurtry is a master at character building. Not just dimensions of the character but literally adding on to the group of characters that you are just starting to get used to. It seemed like as soon as I started getting to know Jake, Lorie, Call, Dish, Pea,Deets and Gus, I would get a storm of new characters like the O'Brien brothers, Pedro (who we don't even get to see because he dies before we know him well enough), and a slew of women that are somehow tied to all these love-hungry men. The book itself is becoming so scandalous it sometimes reminds me of a soap opera, but in a more manly-dramatic way. YES, men are much more drama oriented than women, the book proves this. The fact that it was written by a man speaks for itself.
The biggest surprise so far is the amount of humor that is in the book. The men are always short with each other and sometimes Gus blerbs out sentences that are so off-center to the topic it just makes you giggle. Pieces of a quilt that Deets wears for pants was enough to have me laughing out loud in the middle of the night while my children were sleeping.
If you want to follow along or just take a peek at some of the books on the list, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction
If you would like to read along with me, you can pick up the next book A Thousand Years Of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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