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Hombre
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An excellent book made into a movie that followed it very closely starring Paul Newman. It just doesn't get any better than that. It's a western, very realistic & gritty.
Leonard's characters are all flawed in such interesting ways. The hero is a halfbreed who resents the hell out of the world & makes life hard on himself because he won't communicate. It's not stupid, but understandable the way Leonard writes it. The logic of each character is remorseless. Like a train wreck, you can see it coming but it is inexorable, so all you can do is watch in fascination & wonder about the details.
Leonard's characters are all flawed in such interesting ways. The hero is a halfbreed who resents the hell out of the world & makes life hard on himself because he won't communicate. It's not stupid, but understandable the way Leonard writes it. The logic of each character is remorseless. Like a train wreck, you can see it coming but it is inexorable, so all you can do is watch in fascination & wonder about the details.
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Florence (Lefty)
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Sep 17, 2012 07:55PM
I had no idea he wrote Western's.
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Not many that I know of, Florence. I listened to The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard. Check out my review of that. One of the stories is "3:10 To Yuma" which was made into a movie with Russell Crowe & someone else before that.
Yeah, I read a dozen or so of Leonard without trying his Westerns. Worth a try to behold his marvelous dialog in a new setting.
