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#1 2013-08-07 07:54:25
- Kingston1an
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Elmore Leonard
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/06/elmore-leonard-suffers-stroke
Surprised he still lives in Detroit. Presumably there are reasonable parts left.
I have just got 'Raylan'. Not started reading it yet or seen the TV series on which it is based.
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#2 2013-08-07 08:07:44
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Re: Elmore Leonard
Well, if you want to write about crime, that's a good of a place as any.
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#3 2013-08-07 08:45:00
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Re: Elmore Leonard
He could pay his researchers to live there instead of him.
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#4 2013-08-07 09:15:20
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Re: Elmore Leonard
That's what I'd do.
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#5 2013-08-07 10:13:01
- Patrick
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Re: Elmore Leonard
Best dialogue man since George Higgins.
Otter : Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
Boon : I thought you were pre-med.
Otter : What's the difference?
#6 2013-08-07 21:07:45
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Re: Elmore Leonard
A very good writer but Florida is where he, like American culture itself, was at his best.
"All in all they are a pretty sleazy bunch."
--Cruiser
"Can one safely bone the cordovan of the dead?"
--Quay
#8 2013-08-20 07:38:20
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Re: Elmore Leonard
RIP.
Certainly one of the greats.
some sort of banal legitimacy
#10 2013-08-20 08:07:26
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Re: Elmore Leonard
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#11 2013-08-20 08:26:09
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Re: Elmore Leonard
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#12 2013-08-20 09:53:41
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Re: Elmore Leonard
His books were the first place I ever saw 'prolly' for 'probably' in print.
'Dickens of Detroit'? I cannot see that. Very different styles.
Sunday afternoon BBC costume dramas set in Detroit? I cannot see that. ''Have we got a do-rag for the main villain. What is a do-rag?''
Ten rules for writers:-
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/24/elmore-leonard-rules-for-writers?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."