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Title: So ... that's it?
Review: Legendary writer Elmore Leonard has been pushed into the spotlight lately due to the success of the films "Get Shorty" and "Jackie Brown", and since everyone has been gushing about Leonard's novels, I decided to check out "Pronto". I must be missing something. Maybe "Pronto" is one of Leonard's lesser efforts, and it would probably behoove me to try him again, since I thought the novel was slow, unoriginal, and rather dull. Leonard occasionally comes up with some snappy things for his characters to say, but the characters themselves didn't warrant my attention, and the story they were involved seemed pointless. I suppose my major complaint was that I knew where the novel was going, and it took an eternity for Leonard to get there.
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