Title: DID HE WRITE THIS IN HIS SLEEP?
Product review: I had heard great things about Elmore Leonard's writing, so I thought I'd give PAGAN BABIES a try. Maybe his other books are gems, but I fear I picked a stinker with this one. The story seemed promising---Father Terry is a priest on the lam in Rwanda at the time of the Tutsi-Hutu tribal wars. But Leonard writes about the Rwandan genocide without much insight nor care about the characters. His writing didn't move me to a single emotion except maybe boredom. The prose is so dull; not a single line made me sit up and take notice, and I often felt lost in the story (in a bad way) so reading every page was a real chore. You'd have to twist my arm to read another one of his books. I guess it pays to be a famous writer...they'll even publish your dregs.
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