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[David Morris]

I guess I should give Pynchon-lite a chance.  But Elmore Leonard?  He's not
terrible.  I read "Maximum Bob" many years ago, so I know the "genre" of
comedic detective, dark.  I guess that could be fun...

Lighten up?  OK, I'll try...

David Morris

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:03 AM, tbeshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com> wrote:

> Unlurking to say that I'm about 50 pages into it -- I've laughed out loud
> several times. So far, it's definitely the lightest thing he's written.
> Tibor Fischer was exactly right when it wrote that it reads like an Elmore
> Leonard novel. Perhaps it will deepen later, but so far I think it falls
> into Graham Greene's category of  "an entertainment." I could easily imagine
> it as a movie, perhaps directed by Tarantino, cuz these characters love to
> talk talk talk.
> That said, I've got over 300 pages to go, and who knows where it'll end up?
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