Lonesome Dove Collection

There should be a choice for "Awesome Read" because "Sayan Knights" looks like it may be another winner for Ms Gardner. I know her 1929 series were cliff hangers. By the time I finished reading the series, I felt as though, somehow, the family had moved away and I lost track of them. Believe it or not, I actually missed them. Her "Purling Road" series has helped me. LOL I feel an addiction to this author's writings. She is fantastic and has a way of holding your interest. Turning pages to skip the boring parts does not exist with her stories. There is no boring parts. I pray that someone will take note of her stories and make a television series with it. Her stories are so interesting and realistic that you automatically become addicted to them. It is a good read when the characters are so real in it that you actually miss them. "Sayan Knights" is on it's way to being another winner and I can hardly wait to get the entire series of "1929" and "Sayan Knights" in book form for my library of great, want to read again and again books.

A great series. Love the story. Love the actors.

All discs played from this used set and storage case was good. Super entertaining -- watched the series over a period of a few weeks.

I have read Lonesome dove at least 12 times now. I have watched these DVD's way more than that. It is an incredible set that you will treasure for yrs to come. Even tho I come from the John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Richard Widmark Clint Eastwood etc era ... I find this set to be the very best of my Western collection. I will lend my DVD's out to friends & family from time to time, .... all but this set. NO ONE but me handles my Lonesome Dove's. You'll never regret this purchase if you're a fan of Westerns or Larry McMurtry.

The first package arrived unsealed and totally empty. Something went wrong from the shipping location. When I went to Post Office to pick up the first package I had to refuse it due to the condition just described. It was not damaged, just unsealed and empty!! When I notified Amazon about the situation they immediately re-shipped the package and it arrived just three days later. It arrived in pristine condition. Amazon customer service is the best ever. AND Lonesome Dove is my all time favorite western movie. This Blue Ray set is absolutely splendid. Details in the movie are vivid.

At $6.99, the Lonesome Dove 4-pack is one of the best dollars per hour viewing bargains you can find. The series draws its strength, as do all great westerns, by addressing fundamental questions: What makes a good life? What makes a good man? When does a life cease to become worth living? What are the roles of loyalty, love, friendship and moral principle? In “Lonesome Dove,” the contrast between the warm embrace of life and people by Augustus McRae (Robert Duvall) and the utterly principled but emotionally empty and constricted Woodrow Calls – both legendary Texas Rangers – brings these issues into sharp relief and McRae’s final scene of "Lonesome Dove" is unforgettable.“Return to Lonesome Dove” keeps these issues in clear focus and develops them further by contrasting the rigid Call (now played by Jon Voigt) with cattle magnate Gregor Donnigan (Oliver Reed), a warm and passionate man with deep and fierce personal attachments who is also a cold-blooded murdered on the path to expanding his empire at the expense of Call and so many others. Donnigan has rescued his much-younger wife Ferris (Reese Witherspoon) from a sordid past and loves her dearly and openly but unselfishly plans a future for her when he is gone with Call’s known but unacknowledged son, Newt Dobbs (Ricky Schroder) who is at emotional loggerheads with Call for his refusal to embrace him as his son. The deep conflict between a rich but amoral personality who is a widely respected empire builder with the emotionally crippled and stunted inner life of Call could not be plainer, and the final words between Ferris and Newt bring home why two souls drawn towards and seemingly destined for each other must remain worlds apart. The display of moral courage by Call that brought about these final words between the would-be lovers will remain etched in memory and it is hard not to think that only a man with so few personal ties could ever be quite so brave.Larry McMurtry, the author on whose work the series is based, despised and disowned this second installment, insisting that each of the final two be titled “Larry McMurtry’s …” But this is both a shame and misguided vanity. In keeping alive and making vivid the conflict between competing visions of what makes a life worth living, “Return to Lonesome Dove” is almost as good as its predecessor and far better than either of the final two that McMurtry cobbled together – which are still worth watching.A leading critique complains of "too much compression" but unless you are committed to watching the video quality and ignoring the film this is a perfectly watchable series.

Lonesome Dove is one of the best Westerns ever made, so I was extremely happy to be able to get this copy in Blu-Ray. It arrived on time and in excellent condition.

Loved it