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Title: Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0-06-008219-4 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (41 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Better than most of his stuff.
Comment: While this was most enjoyable of the nine or ten Leonard books I've read, I have to confess that I'm pretty sure that's because I was able to visualize the actors from the movie version (1997's Jackie Brown). While Leonard's characters always have great patter, I often have a hard time visualizing them as real people, so to have a mental picture going in helped a great deal. In this book, Leonard revives a trio (cons Ordell and Louie, and eye candy Melonie) from an earlier novel The Switch (which I have not read), and picks them up 14 years and plenty of hard knocks down the road.
The story is pretty basic super convoluted Leonard territory, ex-cons both crafty and stupid, a complicated money laundering operation, double-crosses, less than straight-laced cops, a wide range of women, a big score, and soforth. It has to be said that the way Leonard combines the elements is rather substantially more complicated than in others of his books-and indeed unnecessarily so, as the movie shows. I have to disagree with the majority viewpoint and declare the film superior to the book (a rarity). Tarantino clearly recognized and excised the burdensome subplots and unlikely coincidences, and the resulting script is smoother and more believable. For example, Max's disintegrating marriage and his sparring with her busboy lover/painter adds nothing and doesn't go anywhere. Similarly, Ordell and Louis's robbery and killing of some neo-Nazis is set up early on, disappears for a long time, then plays out rather foolishly, but never leads to anything. Most importantly, the notion of Louis working briefly with Max Cherry is dropped. In any event, in both book and film, the focus is on stewardess Jackie, and her playing both sides against each other in order to walk off with half a million. That's the fun stuff, and while the book has too many distractions from this, it's still more enjoyable than most of his work.
Rating: 4
Summary: Better than the movie.
Comment: Elmore Leonard has a real ear for dialogue and for writing interesting, complex characters that might seem like average, everyday people at first glance. Small wonder Hollywood has chosen to adapt so many of his projects to the big screen ("Out of Sight", "Get Shorty") and television ("Maximum Bob").
Rum Punch is the story of Jackie Burke, a stewardess looking at the twilight of her life and becomes involved in an ATF sting directed at gun-dealer Ordell Robbie. The ensuing scramble to clear her name and swindle Ordell out of some money dominates the story, as does her relationship with bailbondsman Max Cherry. Director Quentin Tarantino made a decent film based on the book called "Jackie Brown", but to truly appreciate Leonard's story and the characters in them one has to read the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: One hell of a good time
Comment: to put this in simple terms, this book rocks! from start to end i was hooked on this book and couldn't put it down. elmore leonard makes these characters come to life and the story is so clever with a great ending. the story is about a black man, ordell "whitebread" robbie, who sells illegal weaponary to people. jackie burke, a flight attendant, transports ordell's profits from freeport to miami. but the feds are onto jackie, and she has to choose between helping the feds, or helping ordell.jackie also has another option with the help of max cherry, a bail bondsman looking to get out.
anybody that's looking for a good crime thriller to read, it's definitly this one.
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Title: Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 006008216X Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060084103 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Switch by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060082208 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060089555 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: 52 Pickup by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060083999 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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