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Tishomingo Blues (Hardcover)

by Elmore Leonard (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: William Morrow & Company (Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0060008725
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060008727
  • Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.5 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 648,335 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Leonard's best to date, 20 Nov 2003
This review is from: Tishomingo Blues (Paperback)
Let me qualify this firstly by saying I've read a fair bit of Elmore, I started with Bandits, moved through Freaky Deaky and Get Shorty, to Cuba Libra, Out of Sight, Glitz, Be Cool and Riding the Rap. Tishomingo is easily the best of the lot for me. A great central character, Dennis, with an interesting back story as a high diver, is paired up with a shady out of towner called Robert and helps him take over the business interests of the Southern Mafia. As you would expect, the dialogue and characterization are typically excellent; well drawn heroes and villains and their molls spitting out barbed language that sounds so fresh and real it's hard to believe Elmore hasn't been out on the streets with these actual people and recorded it.
Naturally the plot contains as many satisfying twists as ever, but what really made this one stand out for me above all the rest of Elmore's work was the sheer joy he seems to have taken in writing it. He clearly loves talking about old blues and civil war re-enactments from the way he goes into such detail about them, which makes it much more interesting for the reader. The locations are lush and vividly depicted, the action tense, and the conclusion hugely satisfying. If you're a fan already, get this. If you're a newcomer to Elmore, this will convert you. I hear it's going to be filmed as well, pray Soderbergh or Sonnenfeld gets it.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars ***** CLASS *****, 15 Jun 2007
By Mr. N. Carnegie (Kirkcaldy, Scotland, UK.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tishomingo Blues (Paperback)
Elmore Leonard writes character driven stories where the good and bad guys are not always obvious, because they are human. He also doesn't spoon feed to you the plot or insult your intelligence with a need to explain every move or motive, unlike the likes of Dan Brown, John Grisham etc.

This is the first Elmore Leonard novel I ever read and at first I found the book a little hard to get into because it isn't immediately obvious what it is about but that is also much of it's charm. It is a narrative built plot, with the characters building the story bit by bit. I loved not knowing where it was going. I found this book highly original and I loved the humour and loved the characters. It kept me interested all the way through as i feverishly turned page after page after page. Highly recommended!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tishomingo Blues, 5 Jul 2004
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This review is from: Tishomingo Blues (Paperback)
I bought this book in an airport. I'd missed my plane by about fifteen minutes and had to stay there over night. There weren't any seats (everybody else was lying on them), so I stayed up all night and read this pretty much the whole way through.
The story is unusal. It's based around a high diver and a Civil War reenactment. That almost put me off at first, but I'm glad I bought it because there are alot of good moments in the book.
By the way, it's Don Cheadle who is making the film.
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