![]() ![]() ![]() On the evidence of Djibouti, here's one author at least who can't accuse Hollywood of spoiling his books. I'm giving it 3 stars on the basis 'it's OK'.Īh, Elmore Leonard! According to one review, Hollywood's favourite author. Leonard's research seemed good (the Sirius Star and Maersk Alabama hijackings), and where he did get down to describing (very much through showing) Djibouti, that seemed pretty convincing. I wasn't compelled to turn the page to find out what happens next. As others have observed, pretty much nothing happens for the first thirtd of the book, and what happens thereafter seems, at times, unconvincing. Less is usually more, but in this case it was just too less!Īs far as the story is concerned, it is quite clear that the plot comes a poor second to character. And Leonard's sparsity of description and scene-setting sometimes left me baffled. Certainly one could tell when Xavier, with his extreme street hip-hop (maybe those are the wrong words), was talking, but the others sometimes came close to it, with the same device used throughout (the omission of the word 'if'). There were times when I wasn't sure what was happening (maybe nothing?) and who was speaking. The dialogue crackles along, it is very believable. I have therefore to review it on two levels: the style he always writes in and the book/this story itself. ![]()
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