Rum Punch

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Summary: Decent
Review: I found the book mildly entertaining, but pretty shallow.

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Summary: Rum-Punch the book is better than the movie Jackie Brown
Review: I highly recommend this book to any one who likes Leonard and wants a good short read with a great story line. If you saw the movie "Jackie Brown", dissregaurd anything you remember from the movie when you are reading the book. The book is ten-thousand times better than the movie. Lenord is one of the best crime writers that we have today. If you like Elmore I really sugest that you read anything from James Ellroy.

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Summary: good but not his best
Review: I like this book quite a lot, but it isn't quite as funny and snappy as the best Elmore Leonard books.

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Summary: This is a great novel
Review: I love Elmore Leonard and I think that this is his best novel. Everyone is a bad guy underneath, even the law enforcement officers. Again, Leonard writes excellent dialogue for all of his characters and writes a very entertaining story. If you liked the movie Jackie Brown then you should definately give the book that inspired Tarantino to make the movie. If you like stories where everything gets messed up and nobody really wins then give Rum Punch a read.

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Summary: Ok, but not great...
Review: I would prefer to give it two and a half stars, but I'll have to stick with two. Perhaps I criticize the book unfairly -- I saw "Jackie Brown" before reading the novel. I have read several other Leonard books, and this was just not my favorite. He has a fantastic ear for dialogue, but here I often found that it overshadowed the plot, storyline and characters. Although I enjoyed Max Cherry's more substantial role, I found it hard to care about Jackie Burke, Louis, Melanie or Ordell. The over attention to dialogue also led to lags in the story. This is ok for a plane ride, but for a better taste of Elmore Leonard (in this reader's humble opinion)read "Get Shorty" instead.

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Summary: Ok, but not great...
Review: I would prefer to give it two and a half stars, but I'll have to stick with two. Perhaps I criticize the book unfairly -- I saw "Jackie Brown" before reading the novel. I have read several other Leonard books, and this was just not my favorite. He has a fantastic ear for dialogue, but here I often found that it overshadowed the plot, storyline and characters. Although I enjoyed Max Cherry's more substantial role, I found it hard to care about Jackie Burke, Louis, Melanie or Ordell. The over attention to dialogue also led to lags in the story. This is ok for a plane ride, but for a better taste of Elmore Leonard (in this reader's humble opinion)read "Get Shorty" instead.

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Summary: The Godfather of crime fiction does it again.
Review: If you've never read an Elmore Leonard book, you better get your ass up and get reading! For a man in his seventies it would be suffice to say that he isn't an out of touch old man, but quite the opposite. He's so observeant of peoples traits that his casts personas never miss a beat. The plot in this novel comes secondary to the sharp dialogue and the querky characters- as in all Elmores stories. He captures beautifully, the walk and talk of every character. A slow ex-con, a disenchanted bail bondsman, a cowboy ATF agent, a street smart gun dealer, a hopped up beach babe and last but not least-Jackie Burke; an air stewardess with brains, balls and panache to help get her through her problems with the ATF and the hip-cat killer Ordell Robie. So trust me on this, Elmore's one of the master writers out there today that deserves every word of praise he can get. And oh yeah if you're thinking of getting 'Jackie Brown' I'd advise you to get 'The Switch' first as it is the first story about Melanie, Ordell and Louis Gara.

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Summary: better then the movie
Review: Jackie brown is a exciting crime novel. The book is better than th e mvoie because the book gieves a better discription of the events and gives you a better look of the what's going inside the character's heads.

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Summary: Can't wait to see the movie!
Review: Jackie Brown is a suspense filled novel of a woman, Jackie Burke,who has been taken into custody for smuggling money for an arms dealer named Ordell. It eventually turns into a scheme by Jackie to get off the hook from the police, steal 500,000 dollars from Ordell, and then have Ordell put in prison. To see if the scheme works I would definetly recommend this book.

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Summary: RUM PUNCH HAS SOME PUNCH!!!
Review: Jackie Burke is caught with $50,000.00 and some cocaine. The police don't really want Jackie, they want Ordell Robbie, who she was taking the money to. Ray Nicholet and Faron Tyler, the two law enforcement people involved work a deal for Jackie to make another trip bringing money in and it will be marked when shegives it to Robbie. Max Cherry shows up and gets involved with Jackie, they come up with a way to keep the money. In steps Louis Gara and Melanie, friends of Ordell Robbie. They plan to have a plan to get the money in the exchange and keep it themselves. Any of this will leave Robbie out in the cold, he is a dangerous man to be left out. The book has many twist and turns. The people are confusing as there is so many involved but it finally all comes together. A fairly fast moving book. Who will end up with the money? You will be surprised.