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Title: Cat Chaser by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0-06-051222-9 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good Read for a Day at the Beach...
Comment: This was the first Elmore Leonard novel I've read, though I SAW Out of Sight and Get Shorty. Obviously, I felt like I knew what to expect before I opened the book: numerous plot twists, character's who've seen better days and tight dialogue. I'm not a fan of "detective" fiction, so I can't really compare it to that. I found the setting to be compelling: motel in South Florida, the Dominican Republic. I thought the main character's experience with the Marines in the Dominican Republic was interesting. Frankly, as a 28 year old, I wasn't even aware that Marines were in the Dominican Republic at that time.
Book is a quick read, no matter how you slice it. Despite the "adult" subject matter, it occurs to me that Leonard novels would make a good read for a certain kind of high school student. Leonards books are always cheap to pick up and widely available.
The rythym of the dialogue in "Cat Chaser" is above average.
Rating: 4
Summary: the usual Elmore Leomard competence...
Comment: For fans for Elmore Leonard you already know he writes tight crime novels often strewn with humour and great characters. And despite being largely formulaic in approach (..his lead characters all seem to be the same) he succeeds in entertaining the reader. And the same holds true with 'Cat Chaser'.
With 'Cat Chaser' we have an ex-military guy in south Florida involved doing hanky-panky with the wife of a former monster from a Carribean country (Dominican Republic) before the Americans kicked him out. The outcome is inevitable but along the way we meet strange characters (the usual Miami oddballs, and a few imports from the Dominican Republic) who do some very strange things. While here are also a good number of funny bits Leonard is no match for the Florida comic crime novel master Carl Hiaasen.
Bottom line: a fun if not enthralling Elmore Leonard venture. Fans will rejoice.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fast read!
Comment: With the exception of a princess phone and a couple of black and white TVs,Elmore Leonard's 1982 "Cat Chaser" is as contemporary as today's paper.
It is well crafted, full of the usual Leonard streetwise, quirky characters.
One con artist after another trying to out con the other.
Escapist reading at its best.
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Title: Unknown Man #89 by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060082216 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Split Images by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060089547 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Hunted by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060084065 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Bounty Hunters by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0380822253 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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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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