Loop Group by Larry McMurtry
September 5, 2007
I started reading Loop Group by Larry McMurtry and I am nearly finished with the book. I picked it up for $1 at the Borders Clearance Sale and since I have enjoyed Lonesome Dove, Streets of Laredo, Terms of Endearment, Boone’s Lick, Buffalo Girls, Comanche Moon, and Dead Man’s Walk I thought that chances were good that I would like this book. The answer is an overwhelming no. This is another book from the female perspective (like Terms of Endearment) but he does an absolutely terrible job. Essentially, the book is about a 60 year old sex-crazed woman who lives in Hollywood and runs a loop group full of drug addicts. She has three bratty and selfish daughters all over 30 and they have all have very shallow relationships with each other. None of these women can have a normal relationship and the men they are married to are all idiots. Also, all the women in the story seem to be sex-crazed. The 60 year old “protagonist” has the hots for her 80+ year old psychiatrist who is apparently into S&M - complete with descriptions which I could have gone my whole life without reading. I can only surmise that this book is the writing of a man who overdosed on Viagra because I can come up with no other reason why McMurtry would have written this horrible book.
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