For as much effect as Leonard had on crime fiction and westerns and movies, his effect on science fiction is also notable. Wm. Gibson didn't really know how to plot out a full novel, so he just copied the structure of an Elmore Leonard book.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - Aug 20, 2013 5:31:35 am PDT #21276 of 28406
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jesse - Aug 20, 2013 5:39:17 am PDT #21277 of 28406
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
RIP
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 20, 2013 6:03:58 am PDT #21278 of 28406
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Thanks for giving us Jackie Brown, Mr. Leonard.
erikaj - Aug 20, 2013 8:31:24 am PDT #21279 of 28406
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod. And "Out of Sight", and Raylan Givens.
EpicTangent - Aug 20, 2013 10:05:16 am PDT #21280 of 28406
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Does anybody else read the Preston & Child books, specifically Agent Pendergast? I've read the first half-dozen or so, but then took a bit of a break (possibly while waiting for a next book to come out). Now there are a few out that I haven't read, so I thought I'd go backward a book or two to refamiliarize myself with the world and characters, but all of a sudden Agt Pendergast is such a Marty Stu. Anybody else have this problem? It's weird. I've always loved him (and this is just a couple/few years ago, not like when something you loved as a teenager sucks as an adult), I'm gonna be bummed if I can't get back in the story.
Polter-Cow - Aug 20, 2013 10:13:40 am PDT #21281 of 28406
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I loved Relic back in the day, but Reliquary was weird, and I never really followed him after that. I read a few Preston & Child books during my airport-thriller phase (see also: James Patterson).
Toddson - Aug 20, 2013 10:50:10 am PDT #21282 of 28406
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Epic, I've been reading them, although I've gotten fed up with a story arc that's been going through several books. They're good bus reading, so I've been following. Can't really recommend them, though.
Unrelatedly, title of the day: The Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning.
EpicTangent - Aug 20, 2013 11:10:02 am PDT #21283 of 28406
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I've gotten fed up with a story arc that's been going through several books.
Now I'm stupidly intrigued to know what.
The one I just re-read was Cabinet of Curiosities. I knew I had already read that and Brimstone, but I wanted to reintroduce myself before hitting the next vein of books that I don't remember nearly as well. Though reintroducing Bill Smithback sucks a little since I know (some of) what's coming for him in the "zombie" book (I started before deciding I needed to relearn some characters) and I like the big dumbass.
Toddson - Aug 20, 2013 11:14:53 am PDT #21284 of 28406
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
There's a story arc in which it turns out Pendergast's wife, presumed eaten by a lion years before, is alive and hiding from some neo-Nazis who are running a eugenic program (she's part of it). There's the discovery that her death was not an accident (her gun was loaded with blanks), then who was responsible, then that she's alive ... and so on.
Polter-Cow - Aug 20, 2013 11:16:23 am PDT #21285 of 28406
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Pendergast's wife, presumed eaten by a lion years before
...What.
is alive and hiding from some neo-Nazis
...Okay.
who are running a eugenic program
...Um?
(she's part of it)
...I see.