At least he's not pulling a Maupassant and re-writing his old
stories. But Leonard probably isn't suffering from syphilis,
either. There are some advantages to living in the
present.
Patrick King
--- vagrantpacific <
pacificvagrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just finished the latest Elmore Leonard. Have
mixed
> feelings. On one
> hand I feel his style is opening up,
evolving,
> becoming even more
> fluid and balanced between his narrator's voice
and
> the voices of his
> characters. On the other hand nothing
really
> happens, which is always
> sort of the joke with Leonard, especially his
later
> stuff, but with Up
> In Honey's Room, really not much is going on. So
if
> the plot is so
> light then is there something else at work here?
A
> time and a place -
> Detroit at the end of WW2? Some kind of social
or
> philosophical or
> aesthetic pondering. Not really. Is this what you
do
> when you get old,
> you dive back into some memory cave and doodle
on
> the walls? Still,
> I'll take him over the cheap posturing of a lot
of
> other crime writers
> I read this year. He still deals the
real.
>
>
>
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