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Summary: Another good one from Leonard...
Review: I've said it once and I'll say it again... no one writes dialog like Leonard. If you want to know where Tarentino got his inspiration for the off-beat dialog in Pulp Fiction, this is the man.Riding the Rap is a great sequel with more of the same for Givens and Arno. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Leonard strikes again!
Review: Riding the Rap is classic Leonard. Loveable drunk ex-bookie Herry Arno is in trouble again! When two ex-cons and a rich boy pot head come up with a plan to make easy money, Harry is kidnapped! Can his former wifes stenson wearing cowboy cop boyfriend save him from certain monitary loss? Find out in this souped up sequel to Pronto!
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Summary: Slow
Review: The sentences are well written. Leonard describes things well. But it was a slow read. Everything was leading up to the last few pages, where the only action occurred. He could have had those pages, plus a few before them, and had a good short story. But for a novel, it's too thin.
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Summary: God bless Elmore Leonard
Review: There's hardly ever a truly good guy in Leonard's books. Even the best of his protagonists who ride in on white horses to slay evil dragons have a dark side, a dark secret, or a dark sin. And the worst of the baddies all have some marvelous redeeming or hilarious quality that makes you root for them now and then.
There should be, instead of Murphy's Law, a Leonard's Law, in which some seemingly simple scheme will inevitably turn complex and twisted when this master of his genre gets hold of it.
In Riding the Rap, we get to revisit Florida Marshall Raylan Givins as he investigates the disappearance of his girlfriend's ex-lover. Don't ask. It's too complicated to go into details in a short book review. Just trust me: it's filled with the usual Leonard people-stew of weirdos, strange scams, superb dialogue full of lingo and slang, and and and and...
Not his very best, but very good stuff.
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Summary: Typical Elmore
Review: This book is truly a nice one. The word choice was very extravagent and beutifally rolled of the readers tongue. (That is if you read out loud.) The characters where awesome. This book has it all, gypsies,cops,hit-men,swindlers,and lazy crook golfers. READ IT NOW!!!!!!
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Summary: Riding the Rap
Review: This is Elmore Leonard at his best. A Stetson-wearing hero, a soothsaying love interest, three greedy but likable villains, and--like in all Leonard novels--a story told through dialogue and not showy exposition . . . how could you go wrong? And if you really want to be entertained, buy the audio version read by the brilliant Frank Muller.
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Summary: Riding the Rap
Review: This is Elmore Leonard at his best. A Stetson-wearing hero, a soothsaying love interest, three greedy but likable villains, and--like in all Leonard novels--a story told through dialogue and not showy exposition . . . how could you go wrong? And if you really want to be entertained, buy the audio version read by the brilliant Frank Muller.
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Summary: leonard's best
Review: This is my favorite of the six Elmore Leonard books I have read. The dialogue is pure genius, the best I've ever read in any crime book.
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Summary: Whets the appetite for more!
Review: This is the second time I've been priveleged to enter the world of Elroy Leonard, a world peopled by a multitude of hip, wierd, complex and most importantly believable characters. The other book I read was written some 20 years ago and it's amazing that one of his latest books, Riding The Rap, is so bang up to date. References to Resevoir Dogs no less! Rayland Givens, the good guy of the piece, is a great character: a good guy but with enough ambivalence about what he does and why he does it to keep him interesting and you guessing what his next move will be. Is the phsycic reverend really phsycic or is it all just a clever charade? And what will Bobby Deo, the cool dude hoodlum with the penchant for pruning, do next? Leonard gets you asking all these questions and, with a masterfully paced and ecomomical style keeps you turning the pages to find out the answer which, believe me, will not disappoint you. Alltogether a cracking read and I'm pleased as (rum!) punch to find out that Givens appears in another Leonard novel. I can't wait to reaquaint myself with the taciturn and straight shooting Texas ranger and another bunch of Leonard lowlifes!
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Summary: A fine, funny read.
Review: This was my first Elmore Leonard. I came to him through Martin Amis's recommendation, thinking that any prose good enough for Martin would be good enough for me. I wasn't disappointed. 'Riding the Rap' is unashamedly light reading, what another reviewer rightly called a 'guilty pleasure', but on its own terms it is a really first-rate piece of craftsmanship. The characters are interesting -- they're all a little skewed; the dialogue outstanding; and there's a rich vein of humour, much of it quite broad, running through the book. On the strength of this one, I'll be reading more Elmore Leonard.
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