which really isn't writing, but watching in written form. Instead of "Rick Dalton walked down the street" it's "Rick Dalton walks down the street" which is how scripts are written, for the moment you're in, the moment you are watching as a viewer what's going on on the screen, and that the writing is conveying for that very moment. For QT's entire career I've been waiting for him to write prose, that is, something OTHER than screenplays because he's teased many times, the last time when Kill Bill came out, that he was going to transition one of his stories into prose form.īut this book is written like a script (without the character names or the INT/EXT stuff of course). But this is a work of literary art in its own right, a novel that, if the movie didn’t exist, would captivate readers with its own knowing vision and zestful power.” - Donna Seaman, Booklist About the Author “Tarantino, celebrated for his screenplays, truly is a literary force, stepping forward as a novelist adept at using an omniscient point of view to powerful effect in a novel driven by its characters’ inner lives and smart, witty, and salty dialogue of propulsion and nuance, hilarity and heartbreak….It will also offer a stereoscopic experience for most readers as they envision the characters as played by the movie’s cast…a doubling that will inspire fanatic comparisons between film and page. “Classic, sparks-flying Tarantino…Tarantino’s explosive dialogue, with its blend of streetwise and formal cadences, is almost as effective written down as read aloud…Far from being the throwaway artifact it sometimes pretends to be, Tarantino’s first novel may even, as he’s hinted, herald the start of a new direction for this relentlessly inventive director.” - The Washington Post “Quentin Tarantino’s first novel is, to borrow a phrase from his oeuvre, a tasty beverage…He’s here to tell a story, in take-it-or-leave-it Elmore Leonard fashion, and to make room along the way to talk about some of the things he cares about - old movies, male camaraderie, revenge and redemption, music and style…In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Tarantino makes telling a page-turning story look easy, which is the hardest trick of all.” - Dwight Garner, The New York Times