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  <default_description>There aren't any textbooks on armed robbery. The only way to learn is through experience, and small-time crooks Frank and Stick are determined to do as much learning on the job as possible.   In 1970s' Detroit they embark on a crime spree, holding up liquor stores and supermarkets. They invent their 'Ten Golden Rules For Successful Armed Robbery' and for a short time the cash is rolling in. But then they bend their own rules, and it looks like trouble is heading their way.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1976</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elmore Leonard]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up not knowing it was written in 1976; the synopsis on the back is what made me take it home since I figured it was time I gave Leonard a try.  I intended to buy &quot;Get Shorty&quot;, I think, but the bookstore was sold out of it so I grabbed this instead.  It was the synopsis that g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61419854">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I may be on a Leonard kick for the rest of the Summer. It started with his most recent book, Road Dogs, which led me -- probably via an <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a> recommendation, to one of his first published crime stories. Set in Detroit, Swag is the first of what becomes a series of stories about a car thief turn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63194514">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[my first elmore leonard.  good comic twists.  great characters.  like the dryness of his humor.  i will definitely be reading more elmore.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[pulp crime books by elmore leonard and classics by hemingway are nearly identical. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[life/books: Pelecanos]]></body>
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    <review id="7931905">
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read all 40 of Elmore Leonard's novels.  He's that good.  Swag is about two small time criminals who develops a set of rules for armed robbery and what happens to them when they deviate from them.  My personal favorite Leonard novel, marking the first appearance of my favorite Leonard character...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7931905">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All of Dutch Leonard's early works outshine anything he ever wrote that later got turned into a movie, but this is one of the best crime books I've ever read. The scene of Frank and Stick in their apartment after having completed so many armed robberies where Frank says, &quot;Well, here we are...&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14157897">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 24 03:41:47 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked this up off of the paperback shelf at the library.  I have enjoyed the movies based on Elmore Leonard books, thought I'd give it a try.<br/>Turned out to be a pretty quick and simple crime book, couple guys doing all right but get in over their heads.  Good afternoon read, but not much to th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26827640">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first Elmore Leonard I read was a beat up copy that my buddy, Steve Root, gave me as a gift. These days Leonard's grit and amazing dialogue may seem passe, but before The Wire or Tarrentino there was Elmore Leonard. A descendant of the great noir writers like Hammet or Chandler.]]></body>
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    <review id="3273487">
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    <body><![CDATA[the first of the ernest stickley, 'stick' series.  the usual terrific characterizations and dialogue.  a car heister and ex-con team up for armed robbery and things get out of hand.]]></body>
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    <review id="27269027">
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent crime yarn about a somewhat mismatched duo of holdup men. Tightly plotted, and of course topped off with Leonard's immense gift of language.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is, apparently, both a right way and a wrong way to go about armed robbery.  Learn them both in this well-plotted old Leonard classic.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The epitome of a heist-gone-wrong caper.  Ryan's Rules rocks.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fantastic novel that happens to involve crime.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great character work.  Dialog perfection.]]></body>
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