The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories is a raw, hard-bitten collection that gathers together the best of Leonard's western fiction, to life. In...
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May 20, 2011
Lara
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It was high time that I read a western, and I have seen the Academy Nominated short film of the Tonto Woman and enjoyed it. Plus, this is a collection of short stories, so ir seemed a good place to start. I liked a few of the stories, but I found that too much of my brain power was invested is trying to keep the names of the characters straight, navigating my way around the endless and (to me) unnecessary brand names of guns, rifles and horse tack that I got bogged down and found myself skimming
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Jan 15, 2012
Mavis
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This book was not as interesting as i thought it would be.
Stories did not grab interest, better to read ( for ex:) Olive Oatman's true story.
Stories did not grab interest, better to read ( for ex:) Olive Oatman's true story.
Oct 03, 2010
Mark
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I read the Tonto Woman story, but I'm not sure I even finished this book. I'm not a big fan of short stories.
Dec 16, 2010
Pf87
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Elmore Leonard likes to use as simple language as possible. I am not sold on the extent to which it's taken here, though; on the plus side, this keeps the stories short and fast-paced, but plot points are easy to miss (this guy could make an erupting volcano seem humdrum) and the stories often begin unremarkably and end anti-climactically. The collection is hit and miss, and while the hits are quite good, there are only three or four of them out of over a dozen. I enjoy Leonard's later thrillers
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May 25, 2009
Naomi
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I only ended up reading Three-ten to Yuma and a few others, but they were all great. Each had a bit of a twist to the characters and their motivation that kept the stories interesting and unpredictable even though they were all about essentially the same thing (as far as I could tell).
Jun 26, 2008
Justin
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Masterful brevity. Leonard never uses seven words when he can use four.
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