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Summary: Where's the ending?
Review: There is no real ending in this book. After the reading the last chapter the book leaves you asking yourself, then what? The characters are interesting and Nancy is surely a woman to stay away from and not unlike some women I have known in my lifetime. Your led to believe in the book that the climatic scene will have something to do with the theft of a large amount of money that they have been talking about for half of the book, but it ends with indecision about the heist and it leaves the reader clueless about several points.
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Summary: Good charectors, good plot, falls apart
Review: This is my fourth Leonard book, When The Woman Come out to dance has some great compact short fiction. Tishomingo Blues had amaizing chaectors, and a great story set in the south which i won't ruin for you. Get Shorty was one of his best set in my home Town of LA, so far the Big Bounce is by far the weakest novel i've read by Leonard...It starts off with all the right ingedients unique intresting charectors. Good setting. And an intresting premise of stealing 50,000 dollars. It takes a while for the plot to build meticusesly, it really starts to pick up after you're two thirds into it, it starts to climax, and then nothing happens...it seems like Leonard just got bored with it and coped out. It ended totally unresolved and unsastisfying. Don't bother with this one, if you want to se Leonard at his best pick up a copy of Get Shorty
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Summary: Why Elmore Leonard is more than a "mystery writer"
Review: This novel is not a mystery, rather an all-to-true to life expose of the kind of characters that we read about in newspapers (or know in real life) that live on the fringes. I couldn't help but see Hillary Swank as Nancy and George Clooney as Ryan (if I am not mistaken Jack Ryan reappears in Out Of Sight) the same role he did play in the movie. I love Leonard and think he is a must for any serious lover of crime fiction (not just "mystery novels") read him all the way through and you will have fully explored unknown territory though the American psyche.... If Out Of Sight is a 5, then The Big Bounce is a 4. I'd give Swag 4.5, Be Cool a 4.5, Get Shorty a 5, and Cuba Libre only a 3. If you like Leonard go to Jim Thompson next, or vice versa, or Andew Vacchs, but also I would say Cormac McCarthy (the writer that most resembles Leonard in my opinion)or even Russell Banks, Raymond Chandler or Richard Russo.
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