Get Shorty

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Summary: Cool like jazz...
Review: Fast, funny, and electric! An outstanding novel that keeps getting better and better...until it reaches one of the best endings ever. Read this book.

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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: Entertaining and Wonderful
Review: Get Shorty is a fun fast read about Chili Palmer, a sort-of mob guy from Miami that goes to LA to get money from someone who is running. He is really a loan-sharks right hand man, even though he doesn't want to be. The characters are so well developed that you love them each in turn for the brilliance they give to the story. Exceptionally written and more fun than the movie. A must read.

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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: 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!

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Summary: Fun but laboured
Review: Having seen the film, I was hoping for a more snappy book. Get Shorty is a good read, but at times the plot and dialogue drag. If you have the staying power, it's amusing.

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Summary: How can one not like Elmore Leonard?
Review: How can someone not enjoy an Elmore Leonard novel? Its like an old buddy sitting at the bar with you telling a wild story or two over some drinks... Leonard is a wonderful writer! Get Shorty was a hell of a read, and quite funny I might add. Read it before seeing the film.

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Summary: better then the movie
Review: I actually read get shorty after seeing the movie. The movie I though was good but it isn't as good as the book. The book does a far better job of telling the story and getting behind the motives of the characters. It's an interesting story about how the whole Hollywood system works.

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Summary: Dead Boring
Review: I agree with all the one star reviews that this book lacks everything. I've read quite a few E. Leonard books and enjoyed most of them. This was his worst so far.

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Summary: Too typical
Review: I am baffled by the hype that surrounded this book and its movie treatment. It's full of stock characters in nothing but stock situations