This was something I thought was an insurmountable goal. To my surprise, I bulldozed my way through Streets of Laredo and Dead Man's Walk which, to be fair, are the two shortest in the series. Welp, I finished Comanche Moon, and decided I wasn't nearly done with Call, Gus, and the rest of the Hat Creek party. So now my plan was to get a copy of Comanche Moon, watch the Lonesome Dove TV series, and see how I felt about giving Streets of Laredo a try. Pretty much everyone agreed that was a bad idea, but I had already bought my copy.

My original plan after finishing Lonesome Dove was to read Streets of Laredo, and just be done. The idea of reading an entire series, even in just four parts, seemed absolutely daunting. Caught the punchline of that joke about twenty pages in. Fairly recently, I thought I'd challenge myself by tackling The Rise And Fall of The Roman Empire. Finished it when I was fourteen), but gave up on Fellowship of the Ring less than 100 pages from the end. The Hobbit was the first 'grown up' book I ever read on my own (I started when I was nine. Why haven't I read Deathly Hallows? Well, given the fact that I read them all through middle school, the first six damn near killed me.

To give you some context, I've read 6/7 Harry Potter books. Well, my dear friends of r/books, as of about two or three days ago, I truly surprised myself for the first time in far too long by finishing the entire Lonesome Dove series. I thought maybe I would take a jab at the rest of the series, knowing full-well I would never finish reading them. About eight months ago, I posted here in excitement about how I had just finished Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry ( ORIGINAL POST TLDR- I have both ADD and dyslexia so reading has always been challenging for me, Lonesome Dove was the first time I can recall being so engrossed in such a highly detailed book which I could actually finish reading).

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