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Summary: better then the movie
Review: Jackie brown is a exciting crime novel. The book is better than th e mvoie because the book gieves a better discription of the events and gives you a better look of the what's going inside the character's heads.
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Summary: Can't wait to see the movie!
Review: Jackie Brown is a suspense filled novel of a woman, Jackie Burke,who has been taken into custody for smuggling money for an arms dealer named Ordell. It eventually turns into a scheme by Jackie to get off the hook from the police, steal 500,000 dollars from Ordell, and then have Ordell put in prison. To see if the scheme works I would definetly recommend this book.
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Summary: RUM PUNCH HAS SOME PUNCH!!!
Review: Jackie Burke is caught with $50,000.00 and some cocaine. The police don't really want Jackie, they want Ordell Robbie, who she was taking the money to. Ray Nicholet and Faron Tyler, the two law enforcement people involved work a deal for Jackie to make another trip bringing money in and it will be marked when shegives it to Robbie. Max Cherry shows up and gets involved with Jackie, they come up with a way to keep the money. In steps Louis Gara and Melanie, friends of Ordell Robbie. They plan to have a plan to get the money in the exchange and keep it themselves. Any of this will leave Robbie out in the cold, he is a dangerous man to be left out. The book has many twist and turns. The people are confusing as there is so many involved but it finally all comes together. A fairly fast moving book. Who will end up with the money? You will be surprised.
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Summary: ...
Review: Like many others, I read this book after watching "Jackie Brown." I hadn't read a Leonard book before, so was unsure quite what the writing would be like. I was pleased to find that it didn't try too hard to be deep and descriptive. The story moved and was a quick read.
The interesting things about "Rum Punch" is also what makes "Jackie Brown" a really good film. Leonard has other side plots and stories happening that don't appear at all in the film, so there are still some surprises for those who watched the movie. Yet, for the movie story, it was definately good to cut those out as it really tightened up the flow of the story.
The best thing about the book was the ending. In "Jackie Brown," Tarantino takes the ending beyond "Rum Punch's" by a hair... making a conclution for the viewer that Leonard had let the readers make for themselves. I prefer the way Leonard doesn't make any definate conclution about whether Max goes with Jackie or if he stays with his bail bonds business.
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Summary: Alright Leonard
Review: No where near as good as other Leonard books like Bandits, Glitz, or Freaky Deaky.
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Summary: A must for Jackie Brown fans
Review: Obviously, this is the book the movie Jackie Brown is based upon, but fans of that movie must read this. I saw the movie first, but being a big Elmore Leonard fan, I bought the book soon after. I must say I like the book better, since some things in the book were left out of the film.People who want to get introduced to Leonard, this is a good place to start.
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Summary: GOOD BUT NOT GREAT
Review: Ok so this was my first elmore leonard novel and maybe it's just me but I was dissapointed. The characters were great. Each character was compelling enough to keep my attention. There were witty and funny moments and a little romance witch mr.leonard is suprisingly good at. The bad points well in one word the plot sucked. It is a good premise but it just isint enough to keep my attention for three hundred pages. Its a fairly panned out book for a story so simple. Second is that the climax was'nt much. other then that I enjoyed the trials and tribulations of ordell,louis.melanie,jackie and max.
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Summary: Ok.
Review: Once, more Leonard put together a good story with good characters, but it lacked Leonard's usual sense of cool. Tarantino's film was surprisingly more stylish, funny. It's a good book, but I'd call it sub-par for Leonard. I wouldn't reccomend it.
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Summary: Elmore Leonard at his best.
Review: Quentin Tarantino is born to bring Leonard's bood to the big screen. The book is Great.
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Summary: Rum Pounch: A Fantastic Novel
Review: Rum Pounch holds true to Elmore Leonards unique and entertaining syle of writing. It is a fantastic, funny, and suspensful tale about the people we are scared to met, but love to read about. Rum Pounch is a ten plus!
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