Available for Kindle or Kindle apps at $1.99 today in Amazon, this early Elmore Leonard novel's main character is very similar to Raylan in Justified. Good reading, so far anyway.
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Elmore Leonard, The Hot Kid
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I like reading Elmore Leonard, there is plenty out I have yet to read.
Thanks for the tip, I'll look for the print edition.
Thanks for the tip, I'll look for the print edition.
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I have rad a lot of Elmore Leonard, but not all, I am sure. I read The Hot Kid a long time ago, and don't really remember it. Two that have stuck with me are Swag, featuring Ernest Stickley (before he went to Miami and got himself played by Burt Reynolds), and Kill Shot, especially the chapter in which the protagonist recounts the history of his marriage - hilarious, at least the first time I read it. I should revisit that one .
Swag, an early one set in Detroit, holds up well on multiple re-readings. Elmore wrote a lot of good stuff, including his Westerns, but with some of his later books, it seemed that he was just phoning them in.
Swag, an early one set in Detroit, holds up well on multiple re-readings. Elmore wrote a lot of good stuff, including his Westerns, but with some of his later books, it seemed that he was just phoning them in.
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Marsh, I'm with you re Leonard.
One observation I enjoy is that the movie Pulp Fiction is the best Elmore Leonard book-based movie that is not based on a book written by Elmore Leonard.
(Just seems like it ought to have been.
)
I also read, thanks to your recommendations, Charles Willeford, and Daniel Woodrell's stuff. Excellent.
James Lee Burke, Robert Crais, Peter Bowen, and Walter Mosely, whom you also recommended, I found on my own, years ago, but am always returning to see if they've published something new.
Your other recommendations, Harold Adams, John Burdett, Andrew Vachss remain to be explored.
(Hey! I am paying attention!)
Thanks!
One observation I enjoy is that the movie Pulp Fiction is the best Elmore Leonard book-based movie that is not based on a book written by Elmore Leonard.
(Just seems like it ought to have been.
)I also read, thanks to your recommendations, Charles Willeford, and Daniel Woodrell's stuff. Excellent.
James Lee Burke, Robert Crais, Peter Bowen, and Walter Mosely, whom you also recommended, I found on my own, years ago, but am always returning to see if they've published something new.
Your other recommendations, Harold Adams, John Burdett, Andrew Vachss remain to be explored.
(Hey! I am paying attention!)
Thanks!
