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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino
3.0

Reading this book with a bad case of elephantiasis makes you realize one of Tarantino's strengths is assembling a team around him that can enhance his strengths of storytelling and characters with visual design. A good editor and producer would tell him that he should do with this novel like he did Kill Bill and divide it into two volumes. Also a producer would remind him that in this novel, threads of all the characters but one just stop. They're forgotten and we're left with a very good scene for an ending though the age of one character leaves one a little uneasy.

Strengths: the western backstory is captivating. I'd welcome a novel of just that any day. Very readable and some great standalone chapters.

Weaknesses: sometimes it feels like Wikipedia articles or lists provided by an opinionated man. The introduction of several plot points that then just disappear.

May QT write more to rate.