Get Shorty

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Summary: Good solid crime fiction mixed with black comedy.
Review: Typical Leonard: lots of wierd people interacting in a comedic way with excellent dialog.

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Summary: This review is a positive review for Get Shorty
Review: Get Shorty is a witty, fast, and very exciting Hollywood satire. As usual for a Elmore Leonard novel the dialogue is very cool and the characters are sharp

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Summary: BBBBBBOOOOOOORRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!
Review: I too am puzzled by the reviews this book got. All of the blurbs on the book say fast moving, lively, and funny. This book was SLOW, BORING and NOT AMUSING. I kept reading and thinking, well somethings going to happen soon, but to my amazement I kept turning the pages and guess what, NOTHING AT ALL HAPPENS. This really is perhaps the most BORING book I ever read.

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Summary: I haven't read all of Elmore Leonard
Review: But this is one book of his I would recommend. It has some of his best writing and less of his worst. Leonard has a system, a blueprint for his books. The more evident the blueprint the less interesting the book. In Get Shorty he does a good job of covering the blueprint and bringing out the characters. It's funny and fun.

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Summary: Leonard go's to LA and crashes the party!
Review: Leonard proves he's america's best with this look at the underworks of film prodution... with a cast of memerable caracters and humourous situations this book is one of his best

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Summary: I Just Don't Get It
Review: Get Shorty is a dull, dull, dull, dull novel. It is so dull I did not sell my copy to a used paperback bookstore and risk exposing this piece of trash on another person. The lead character, Chili Palmer, has no appeal whatsoever and you frankly don't care about his fate or any of the other characters in the book. The story is contrived and totally uninteresting. Like one of the other reviewers, this was my third Leonard novel and it will be my last. His novels are always portrayed as "hilarious" and "exciting". Well, I don't laugh and I don't get tense. How he and his agent have snowed publishers and Hollywood I will never understand. Carl Hiaasen writes rings around this guy.

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Summary: Leonard at his best!
Review: Whether you saw the movie or not, the book will not disappoint. The typical assortment of Leonard characters with their snappy dialog makes for a great read!

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Summary: This is an advertisement for the book the movie the . . .
Review: Ever get the feeling that you are being sold something without even knowing it? Halfway through Get Shorty, I thought, well, SOMETHING AMAZING MUST BE ABOUT TO HAPPEN, because otherwise, this book is the most mundane, run of the mill paint-by-numbers crime novel ever written by a human or (I suspect) a computer. Ooooh, the Cuban man pronounces the F-word "Fock." How insightful! In a sense, I guess Leonard achieves the feat of mirroring in print the superficiality and semi-literacy of modern America. But with Dean Koontz still cranking out the page-burners, I'm not sure we need another reminder of our artistic bankruptcy. My recommendation is Don't Steal This Book.

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Summary: If you are looking for good writing, you won't find it here.
Review: This is the third book I've read by Leonard (I just finished "Riding the Rap") and I am totally puzzled by all the accolades this man gets. His writing style is monotonous, his characters all talk exactly like, are superficial, and Leonard's rambling and grammatically garbled sentences are hard to read. Here is an typical example: "He was there sitting at the bar when he saw her come in, just enjoying his drink like he really didn't care who she was or notice her or anything like that, just consumed with his own thoughts and his drink, hoping she would notice him so he wouldn't have to get up and go over to where she sat, she looking so good, cool, he didn't want to give her the satisfaction." Now if a character talked like that, that would be fine. But that is his way of writing no matter who the character is--they all sound exactly alike. I'm not going to waste my time with any more of his books. Even Dean Koontz can write better than this guy, for pete's sake.

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Summary: Elmore Leonard: Fantastic!
Review: Get Shorty, a superb movie, an even better book. Elmore Leonard, a contemporary genious, brings us one of his best, Get Shorty is unbelievable!