"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
"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