Mark,
Re your comments below:
"I recently read three books in succession that got me
thinking about Elmore Leonard's famous dictum about cutting
the stuff that people skip over. . . two largely follow
Leonard's rule (in fact, Washington Post thriller critic,
Patrick Anderson, brought up the rule in his very positive
review of Wheelman)."
I don't think you mean to imply that Leonard was laying down
hard and fast rules that all others must follow, but, just so
it's clear, I think what Leonard actually said was, "I try to
leave out the parts most people skip."
In other words, he was setting a personal rule that worked
for him, not a universal rule that he insisted would work for
all.
JIM DOHERTY
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