He wanted to talk about the book and we wound up talking about the thing for the better part of an hour. He really liked the main character, Chili Palmer, who was, how did he put it? “Like,” Steve said, “he knows he could hurt somebody but he smiles and says, ‘Let’s be cool, everything’s cool.’ ”
. . .and then I told him that Leonard actually wrote a sequel to Get Shorty called, of all things, Be Cool, and Steve was tickled pink when he heard that, the kid, so sweet. . . - D. Brandt, CHERRY
The Getaway - Jim Thompson
... thompson. Cool!
Haven't read this one by him.
Will have to check it out.
Well worth it. The ending was, well, fucking astoundingly astounding.
The presumption of the ending being fucking astounding is arrogant, not to mention laughable
The presumption of the ending being fucking astounding is arrogant, not to mention laughable