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JACKIE BROWN (cancel-do as Rum Punch)
by: Elmore Leonard |
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780440226062 Edition: First Thus ISBN: 0440226066 Label: Dell Manufacturer: Dell Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: December 01, 1997 Publisher: Dell Release Date: December 01, 1997 Studio: Dell |
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  - quinten tarriotinos JACKIE BROWNthis is the book that quinten tarrintinos movie Jackie Brown came from. it was a good read and alot like the movie. its about a flight attendant that gets busted transporting coke into the USA. she strikes a deal with the ATF to set up a gun smuggler that she knows... what happens.. ? read it and find out! Rating: - Pretty Good Elmore LeonardRum Punch is a pretty good representation of Elmore Leonard's style. The story focuses on a flight attendant attempting to bring half a million dollars into the country, and then in true Leonard style, all the colorful characters (some on the side of law, others not) who try to gets their hands on the money. The book features some strong dialogue, particularly when the gun runner Ordell Robbie is speaking. Another strong element is the way that Leonard easily switches perspective--from the flight attendant to the gun runner to an ex-con to a bails bondsman. While the book is good, it is not on the same level of Leonard's Get Shorty. I think the book's one flaw is that while the twists are good and the story rings true, there is nothing particularly unique about the story. The book was made into a movie titled Jackie Brown, which despite changing the title and locale (from South Florida to Los Angeles), is surprisingly faithful to the book. The movie is okay, but the book is better. Rating:  - couldn't get into itI enjoyed the film based on this novel, but couldn't get into reading it. I don't know why, maybe it's just me. Maybe because the characters in the movie were changed too much...I don't know...but I just lost track of the book less than half way through. Rating: - One of Leonard's bestI'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard and Rum Punch is one of his best. The plot: Jackie Burke, a down-on-her luck airline attendant is forced to help authorities nail gunrunner Ordell Robbie after she's caught sneaking cash into the country for him. Of course in an Elmore Leonard novel, double crossing is the name of the game and Jackie, with the help of bail bondsman Max Cherry, devises a plan to take the money and run. This novel has everything we come to expect from a Leonard novel. Great dialogue, memorable characters, and a plot full of zigs and zags. The cops are a little shady and the criminals are as likely to kill one another as they are to kill the good guys. Rum Punch is an unpredictable, rollicking ride; sometimes laugh out loud funny, always entertaining. A great read, from cover to cover. Rating:  - OKI was a little surprised early on when I realised I'd seen this book as the movie, `Jackie Brown'. Although it started differently, the giveaway was the description of the bail bonds office - they really caught the feel of the place in the movie. There were a few changes here and there - the white Jackie Burke of the book became the black Jackie Brown in the movie, and Max the bondsman is more central, but the flavour of the thing was all here, and the movie was pretty faithful. I wasn't reading it as a foil for the movie, but I wonder if I would have enjoyed it more or less if I hadn't seen Tarantino's spin on it. Max was likable, the characters, settings and plot all capably done. Still, nothing really soared for me here either - there are other crime writers (Hammett, Perez-Revert?, Chandler, McCall Smith) I'll look for first. |
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