Unabridged Audiobook
An absolutely amazing listen
Meh. The movie was great. This not so much. Why elaborate endlessly over uninteresting vignettes? It just became sooooo boring. Tarantino is a wonderful filmmaker. As a novelist, not so much.
thoroughly enjoyed this book. provided a deeper look into the characters i loved in the movie. Jennifer Jason Leigh's narration was superbly funny and poignant.
Great movie, great book!
Goes a little deeper into the movie characters people cared about and gives more detail on some controversial points of the movie. But goes far too deep into obscure western TV shows and actors few have heard of and fewer still care one bit about.
The vision Tarantino has is 100% meant for film. Maybe he will have better novels up his sleeve for later in his career, but this was not worth the pages it took up. There are literally entire chapters that don’t push the story forward whatsoever, following weak characters that live better in 90 second scenes rather than an hour of boring reading material. The classic Tarantino tongue-in-cheek style of writing came off as pretentious in the book too. And Jennifer Jason Leigh further pushed this pretension in her narrating, I did not enjoy her reading. (Aside from the fact that her voice is more groggy than sultry) The only thing holding this story together was the film and the performances of the characters. The novel didn’t give them any more depth, it just felt like we read deleted/alternate scenes that we were better off without in the first place. That being said, some moments were entertaining. But it was only about 20% of the book
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