I picked this up in a used bookstore (thank god i didnt pay full price) and planned to read it on vacation. After 100 pages, I threw it in the garbage. This dialouge is unrealistic; the characters talk like illiterate third graders. Worse than that it the bland character structure. It was just an annoying piece of dribble. Although i liked the movie get shorty and Jackie brown, I won't subject myself to his writing again.Leonard could do less damage if he was drunk behind the wheel of an automobile instead of behind a typewriter.