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Read Nov. 2020

Even though it’s been about 25 years I remember the movie version of this book quite well. As a consequence, the whole time I was reading this I pictured Chili Palmer looking like John Travolta (playing Chili Palmer….). This added quite a bit to my enjoyment of this book. In fact, I found some of the novel kind of flat – not as good as I remember the movie being. There was no sense of attraction between Karen and Chili, yet they end up in bed. Leonard doesn’t really have many women in this novel and they are quite one-dimensional. There was definitely opportunity to flesh out their stories. I was surprised that there wasn’t a real ‘show-down’ between Chili and Bones, Leonard kept foreshadowing the possibility but it fizzled out.

It was obvious Leonard was skewering Hollywood types based on his experiences. That was amusing. Other than that, it was good, but not as good as it could have been. 3*

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