You and Mike and me three, Ed. I remember being very confused
when Brit critics (e.g. Martin Amis) began to go totally
ga-ga over Leonard in the 1980s and 1990s. Like you I've
half-read a bunch of his novels, but only completed two (both
one which were made into movies I'd liked, Jackie Brown/Rum
Punch and Out of Sight). I liked them, but also thought there
wasn't a lot of heart there and that he wasn't anything
special.
Having said that, you might want to take a peek at some of
his earlier genre stories, before he went all crazy hip bebop
about everything. I really dig a lot of his western stories.
The classic "3:10 to Yuma" has always been a short-story
favorite of mine.
David Moran
Ed Poe wrote:
> Miker,
>
> You and I must be the only two guys on the planet
who
> don't get Elmore Leonard. I have an entire shelf
in
> my library devoted to his books, all of which are
half
> read. While I recognize his genius with
dialogue,
> everything else about his work leaves me cold. I
even
> picked up GLITZ for the second time (1985, regarded
as
> his breakout novel) a few months ago and quit about
a
> third of the way through it.
>
> Different strokes.
>
> --Ed
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