Comments on: Road Dogs http://www.babygotbooks.com/2009/06/10/road-dogs/ Your head will collapse if there's nothing in it Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:16:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Baby Got Books » Nobody Move http://www.babygotbooks.com/2009/06/10/road-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-264381 Baby Got Books » Nobody Move Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:16:52 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/?p=2599#comment-264381 [...] read Nobody Move on the heels of finishing Elmore Leonard’s Road Dogs (review). Leonard is undeniably a master of the gritty-noir-crime-drama form, but Johnson more than holds [...] [...] read Nobody Move on the heels of finishing Elmore Leonard’s Road Dogs (review). Leonard is undeniably a master of the gritty-noir-crime-drama form, but Johnson more than holds [...]

]]> By: Lain http://www.babygotbooks.com/2009/06/10/road-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-262563 Lain Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:36:39 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/?p=2599#comment-262563 Man, I love Elmore Leonard. My dad got me hooked on him when I was way too young to be reading that sort of stuff. Rum Punch (later made into the Tarantino film Jackie Brown) was the second "adult" book I read, and boy howdy did it open my eyes. I was 11, I think. Come to think of it, encouraging mildly illicit reading among minors might be the best way to ensure that they develop a passion for it (for reading, not for the illicitness) (Okay, maybe for the illicitness too). Man, I love Elmore Leonard. My dad got me hooked on him when I was way too young to be reading that sort of stuff. Rum Punch (later made into the Tarantino film Jackie Brown) was the second “adult” book I read, and boy howdy did it open my eyes. I was 11, I think.

Come to think of it, encouraging mildly illicit reading among minors might be the best way to ensure that they develop a passion for it (for reading, not for the illicitness) (Okay, maybe for the illicitness too).

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