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Part of the problem here is that Elmore Leonard is hyped as an Important Writer, a kind of second-coming of Raymond Chandler et al. If I'd sat down to read Killshot (my first and probably last Leonard novel) without those expectations, I'd probably have come away satisfied by this workmanlike but generally unremarkable thriller. As it was, I found myself holding him to a standard against which he doesn't even begin to compete: Leonard is decent at characterization and has a nice ear for local idiom, but otherwise he definitely belongs in the supermarket-checkout-aisle minor leagues.
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Feb 12, 2013 02:57PM
I couldn't agree with you more. What's all the hype about? Am I missing something?
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Same here. This is the 3rd Leonard I've read, and they've all been enjoyable but not particularly remarkable. Well-fleshed-out characters with realistic dialogue in routine plots do not a classic make.
Yip....you've nailed it.I couldn't figure out why a professional hit man like Bird would team up with a loser like Richie for a paltry shakedown of a realtor in Hicksville Mi.
Wayne became more of a caricature blue collar dumbbell every time he appeared.
Certainly the worst Elmore Leonard I have ever read.
He had since great stories, OK stories, and some very weird delivery of stories. This is one of his most strange.
You don't understand - he is great because he doesn't write like 6 novel Chandler, all metaphor and flowery writing. He is pure dialogue and character, with plot driving. He is a Hemingway of crime, more like the superior Hammett, inventor of modern crime, not Agatha Christie.
