brKkH [Free and download] Maximum Bob Online [brKkH.ebook] Maximum Bob Pdf Free Elmore Leonard ePub | *DOC | audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook 2017-02-21Formats: Audiobook, MP3 AudioOriginal language:EnglishRunning time: 28320 secondsBinding: Audio CD | File size: 25.Mb Elmore Leonard : Maximum Bob before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Maximum Bob: 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Better than average crime fictionBy Devil_MonkeyElmore Leonard is one of the greatest living writers of crime fiction - perhaps even THE greatest living writer - so the reader goes in expecting good stuff. This one is good, better than average, but not an exceptional Elmore Leonard novel.The story is fun, sometimes a little silly, at times even slightly sinister, yet it never quite comes together in a cohesive unit. It's good, but it's less accessible than many of Mr. Leonard's greatest works. Part of it might be due to a slight supernatural element that is underdeveloped (and seems out of place), or the character of Maximum Bob himself who never really comes into focus to any great extent, but whatever it is there's something that's just ever so slightly off with this one. When you weave together a twisting, turning plot the way Mr. Leonard does everything has to be just right or it starts to fall apart, even though this one doesn't fall apart you can see it starting to unravel around the edges. The story never engrossed me to the point of shutting out the world around me the way a good Elmore Leonard will usually do.It's a good read. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys the kind of eccentric, oddball characters that Elmore Leonard often specializes in just don't let your expectations get too high going in.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Mixed effortBy The CaptainI'm a big Leonard fan. Let's start with that disclaimer. Maximum Bob is something of an oddity for me, in that, on one hand, it is classic Leonard narrative style, that flowing, loose, close-to-character's inner workings stuff George V. Higgins kicked off and Leonard refined. In this respect, Elmore is Elmore again and I'm glad to see it. The problem for me (and what stops me short of 5 star rating) is that the story itself seems to have been stretched too far with the character Leanne. Her presence, as an alligator-paranoid semi-psychic seems forced, as if she were shoe-horned in there in the effort to save and elevate a plot that was in all other respects fairly predictable stuff. Maybe Elmore was tired. Another problem for me, was the now predictable trope of the weak man. Elmore seems to have decided that strong men are anathema to sales, or he has thrown in the towel and accomodated agents and publishers who still think the improbably rational and brave female character is still new and believable. No man familiar with women has ever met a woman as man-like in her takes as Elmore's proto-American s. OK, now call me a chauvanist. The problem is that it seems clear to me that Leonard no more believes his own neo-stereotype than he believes men have wombs. Astute readers will see this nearly crass accomodation of the lowest common readership denominator in his rather bland presentations of Leanne, Kathy and her ill-fated love interest, Gary. Maybe he should go back and read Stick. That one he got perfectly.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Leonard or Hiaasen?By p thomasThroughout this book I could swear I was reading Carl Hiaasen, not Elmore Leonard. That's not a bad thing, I like Hiaasen, just unexpected.Crackling dialog. Outlandish characters. A touch dark. Very quick read.One note about the Kindle copy. It is very poorly done. There is no line spacing or other break between scenes, its all condensed. So often when the action shifts, it takes a bit to figure out what happened. [Read by Richard Poe] A character so outrageous he could only have come from the ingenious imagination of Elmore Leonard, lewd, lecherous, law-bending Florida jurist Judge Robert ''Maximum Bob'' Gibbs has been judged guilty by a grudge-bearing malefactor and sentenced to death -- by alligator, if necessary. Maximum Bob is a delightfully dark classic thriller from ''the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever'' (New York Times Book Review), and any reader who loved getting gleefully lost in criminal mayhem of Get Shorty, Rum Punch, Out of Sight, The Hot Kid, or any number of the inimitable Leonard's numerous crime fiction masterworks will get maximum enjoyment out of this one. From Publishers WeeklyDarker than his usual fare (something very bad occurs to a good guy), Leonard's ( Get Shorty ) latest is no less excellent. Elvin Crowe, of a habitually criminal Florida family, is out of jail and looking to run a scam on rich probationer Dr. Tommy Vasco, ex-friend (lover?) of Elvin's prison boyfriend. Turns out that all three were sentenced by illiberal Palm Beach County judge Bob Isom Gibbs, aka Maximum Bob. For $10,000 Elvin contracts to kill Gibbs, wondering if he can get more out of Dr. Tommy. Meanwhile Gibbs is trying to scare off his weird young wife, Leanne, a possible psychic sharing a body with Wanda Grace, a dead slave girl. Racist and sexist as any redneck, Gibbs has eyes for young Kathy Diaz Baker, probation officer for Elvin, Elvin's nephew and eventually Dr. Tommy. Still angry about a failed marriage to an Anglo cad, Kathy meets youngish detective Gary Hammond. They start working together (Who brought a gator to Gibbs's house? Who shot at the house? What's Elvin up to with Dr. Tommy?) and fall in love. Leonard's suspense, pace, humor and ear (probation officers talking shop, e.g.) are as wonderful, dry and true as ever. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club featured alternates; author tour. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.From Kirkus sLeonard returns to the Florida coastline for his weakest novel since Touch (1987)--a bumpily humorous but unfocused seriofarce about a probation officer and the eccentric judge she gets entangled with. As one of Leonard's very few heroines in 29 novels, spunky Kathy Baker of the Florida Dept. of Corrections blows a whiff of fresh air into the Leonard canon--as does the outspoken, aging hanging-judge Bob Gibbs--but not enough to put the spring into a slack plot that begins when skirt-chasing Gibbs takes a fancy to Kathy as she shows up in his courtroom with probation-violator Dale Crowe Junior. Gibbs throws the book at Dale, then asks former psychology-major Kathy out on a date under the guise of her talking to his wife, a former showgirl who seems to be possessed by the spirit of a 12-year-old 18th-century slave girl. Before Kathy can visit Gibbs, however, a hugh alligator appears on his property and sends his wife scurrying for northern climes. And that's just fine by Gibbs, who turns out to have imported the gator to get rid of his loony wife. But when Gibbs double- deals Dickey Campau, who brought the gator, Campau drives out to the judge's home and shoots up the house. Which is just as well, because the shots scare off Elvin Crowe, Dale's mean and flaky uncle, who's been hired by another of the judge's irate courtroom-victims, a crack-addicted M.D., to kill the judge. Caught up in the investigation into the gator-attack and shooting, Kathy matches up professionally and romantically with cool cop Gary Hammond--until a jarring note of raw violence takes out Gary and sets Kathy up for an anticlimactic confrontation with Elvin and the M.D. Nicely realized characters, the usual smart Leonard dialogue, a few moments of brisk high/low humor--but the meandering plot lacks drive, Gibbs rolls around like a loose wheel, and the whole affair seems more like a pale Carl Hiaasen imitation than true-blue Leonard: It's all a big disappointment after Leonard's crackling last, Get Shorty (1990). -- Copyright copy;1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. 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