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Bezig met laden... The Switch (1978)door Elmore Leonard
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is a solid crime novel - suspenseful, not over-written whatsoever. The reader brings the background (in the form of stereotypes and familiarity with the scenes and characters). The dialogue is everything you've heard about Leonard's writing - its direct, straightforward, and always works for the plot. The overall trope is the satisfying karma-trope and the ending of the novel is comfortable and wry. A little bawdy overall, but worthwhile for the quick week spent with these characters. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Fiction.
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HTML: "My favorite Leonard book....He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they sharpened their senses of ironic humor and grew better ears for dialogue." "The best writer of crime fiction alive." Dangerously eccentric characters, razor-sharp black humor, brilliant dialog, and suspense all rolled into one tight packageâ??that's The Switch, Elmore Leonard's classic tale of a kidnapping gone wrong...or terribly right, depending on how you look at it. The Grand Master whom the New York Times Book Review calls, "the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever," has written a wry and twisting tale that any of the other all-time greatsâ??Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, John D. MacDonald, James M. Cain, Robert Parker...every noir author who ever walked a detective, cop, or criminal into a shadowy alleyâ??would be thrilled to call their own. Leonard, the man who has given us U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (currently starring in TV's Justified) is at his storytelling best, as a spurned wife decides to take a rightfulâ??and profitableâ??revenge on her deceiving hubby by teaming up with the two thugs he hired to a Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Not without a few glitches, Louis and Ordell, with the help of the neo-Nazi pal Richard, grab Mickey, wife of real estate developer Frank. The big glitch comes when Frank refuses to pay--he was in the process of divorcing Mickey anyway.
I'm not sure whether this book was the basis for the movie starring Bette Midler and Danny Devito in the Mickey/Frank roles (probably was). In the movie the wife was nasty and belligerent, who over time with the kidnappers mellows out.
Here, Mickey was "nice," but rather insipid and passive. Although a bit of implausibility is to be expected with Leonard, there's usually more than enough humor and wit to offset that. It just didn't work here, maybe because of the weakness of Mickey's character. And after the Mickey is released, the plot meanders on pointlessly. I've read three or four other books by Leonard, and loved them all, but this one didn't work for me, despite the fact that I had been really looking forward to it.
(A lot of Amazon reviewers agreed-one said this is a book that fizzles, not sizzles.) ( )