After watching Comanche Moon on TV the last few nights I was wondering if anyone had managed to read all four of the books in Larry McMurtrys Lonesome Dove series? I've read the original but now I'm tempted to read the other three books. I doubt that anyone else has attempted as far reaching and massive a western series as this one before. Most westerns tend to be short affairs – at least the ones I've run into. And it can be argued that McMurtry elevated the western somewhat. Like it or not it's a step above what we usually see on the western book shelves.