This is one of the most depraved books I've read this year, if not of all time. And I read Portney's Complaint as well as Kafka on the Shore, where the 15 year-old protagonist has sex with his mother--several times. Neither comes close to The Last Picture Show. God has left Thalia, Texas. McMurtry supposedly based Thalia on his hometown of Archer City in the 1950's. It was really that bad?

Five stars