Hide this

Results from Google Books

Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.

Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard
Loading...

Tishomingo Blues

by Elmore Leonard

MembersReviewsPopularityAverage ratingConversations
49369,991 (3.52)None
Recently added byChinatown_Storefront, private library, woodge, neil2me, bunnikins, Clio12, DN2402, paolo, Bam9000, jjruby54
Loading...
won't like will probably not like will probably like will like will love

Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.

English (5)  Swedish (1)  All languages (6)
Showing 5 of 5
Humorous crime writing? Not sure if that applies when there are seven deaths. Dennis Lenahan, the 80 ft diver, appears to find love at the Civil War reenactment.
  carladp | Aug 6, 2009 |
I found this to be good, but not Leonard's best. The dialog, as always, rings true and helps to create a sense that you are learning about the characters just by listening to (i.e., reading) their conversations. However, the plot is wafer thin, and the cast of characters not nearly as compelling or entertaining as in early works such as Rum Punch, Get Shorty, and others.
  cfink | Jul 24, 2008 |
YUCK!! Nothing good about this book. I hear they are going to be making a movie about it...why!?! ( )
  Djupstrom | Apr 24, 2008 |
Starts OK, but quickly bogs down in boring asides. The work of a tired author trotting out his umpteenth book. Nowhere near as compelling as Swag, a book he wrote 30 years earlier. ( )
  shrubbery | Sep 4, 2007 |
Not especially good Leonard.
  wfzimmerman | May 22, 2007 |
Showing 5 of 5
no reviews | add a review
You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.
For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.
Series (with order)
Canonical Title
Original publication date
People/Characters
Important places
Important events
Related movies
Awards and honors
Epigraph
Dedication
First words
Quotations
Last words
Disambiguation notice
Publisher's editors
Blurbers

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

Book description

Amazon.com (ISBN 0060083948, Mass Market Paperback)

Take a high diver who witnesses a murder from his perch 80 feet above a Mississippi casino. Add a cooler-than-thou con artist from Detroit who's out to take over the Dixie mafia's lucrative Gulf Coast drug business. Throw in a crooked deputy sheriff and an honest state cop. Put them all in costume along with a bunch of other "reenactors" bent on refighting an important Civil War battle, season with plenty of historic detail, and you've got all the classic ingredients of an Elmore Leonard novel--except for drama, suspense, or mystery, that is. This is a rib-tickler in the Carl Hiaasen/Dave Barry tradition rather than the kind of thriller Leonard wrote before Hollywood discovered him. As the author himself explains, his intent was to entertain himself by gathering an odd assortment of characters, building a story as they bump heads, and seeing what happens. And as usual, he carries it off with style, wit, and brio. Readers will be casting the inevitable movie in their heads (Samuel L. Jackson is a lock for Robert, who glides into town in a flashy Jag and gets the action going) as they chuckle their way to the last hilarious page. --Jane Adams

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400)

(see all 4 descriptions)

The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details.

Quick Links

Ebooks Audio Swap
2 pay2 pay202/3

Popular covers

 

Help/FAQs | About | Privacy/Terms | Blog | Contact | LibraryThing.com | APIs | WikiThing | Common Knowledge | 46,367,812 books!