What a pile of reductionist, pretentious, virtue-signalling, condescending, claptrap.

…ize: Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove. The article’s author says he actually loves Lonesome Dove, but “the cowboy mythos, with its rigid masculine emotional landscape, glorification of guns and destruction, and misogynistic gender roles, is a major factor in the degradation of America.” Seriously? Lonesome Dove is responsible for the downfall of America? I had no clue that a Western n…
‘21 Books You Don’t Have to Read’: A Ranting Response to a Ridiculous Article
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Sep 28, 2021
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What a pile of reductionist, pretentious, virtue-signalling, condescending, claptrap.
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Written by Simon Dillon
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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com
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