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Get Shorty (Chili Palmer, #1)

Elmore Leonard

Start date: September 1, 2016

Finish date: December 1, 2016

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Jul 05, 2011 Elizabeth (Alaska) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, 1001-books, late-20th-century

I would call this spoof noir. It has all the noir elements you'd find in a Raymond Chandler novel, but not only none of the darkness, but humor enough for smiles throughout. Chili Palmer is not your stereotypical loan shark. Collecting is just business. Hurting people who don't pay shouldn't be necessary when all you have to do is look at them with that certain look.

Neither is this any sort of stereotypical crime novel. Which are the good guys and which the bad isn't as obvious as it should be. ...more

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Jul 02, 2020 Tien rated it liked it

Shelves: crime, read-on-kobo

Chili Palmer is a shylock. And a good one. One day, his boss died and was replaced by someone he refused to get along with. At around the same time, one of the debtors died in a plane crash except he actually didn't. Chili found out and went after him all the way to Vegas then Hollywood. Chili likes Hollywood and the movies... he's thinking of changing his line of work but there are some obstacles in the way. He'll need to move them out of his way first.

An interesting twist wherein a shylock is ...more

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