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| | 1. |  | L.A. Confidential
from Grand Central Publishing
Price: $10.17
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I have long been a fan of the detective story, since I first read E.A. Poe, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My favorite authors in the tradition are Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But Ellroy brings something new and exciting--I would say, it is this: a finely drawn and articulate sense of the... more info
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| | 2. |  | American Tabloid: A Novel
from Vintage
Price: $10.17
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A non-fiction novel mixing history with the characters that, I take it, Ellroy is practiced at evoking. Publisher's Weekly piously calls the history "revisionist," reassuring us that nothing really happened that we need to worry about. In this environment, Ellroy's is about the best history we're... more info
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| | 3. |  | The Big Nowhere
from Grand Central Publishing
Price: $10.17
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Early on I never thought I'd be able to slog my way through this book. Why? One, there seemed to be too many characters to keep track of. The book follows the lives of three men in detail: a cop, a district attorney's investigator and a bagman for Howard Hughes. This triples the plot lines and... more info
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| | 5. |  | My Dark Places
from Vintage
Price: $10.85
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As an Ellroy fan, I, too, was annoyed at his not telling us the full story of how he "turned his life around" -- but then I recalled his mentions of 12-Step groups. In NA, AA, CA and all the rest, "A" stands for "anonymous." Mr. Ellroy might choose to disclose how 12-Step recovery groups helped him... more info
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| | 6. |  | The Cold Six Thousand: A Novel
from Vintage
Price: $10.85
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The Cold Six Thousand is a daringly direct take on the biggest events in America in the 1960s - the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, civil rights leader Martin Luther King and JFK's younger brother Senator Robert F Kennedy. All this set against the first few years of the US involvement in... more info
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3.5 / 5.0
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| | 7. |  | White Jazz: A Novel
from Vintage
Price: $10.17
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This has to be Ellroy's worst yet. The writing is in the style of Dr.Seuss crossed with a psychopath on crank. Subtract 300 pages from this atrocity and you still have a book too long, with no plot and no redeeming value, and mostly, totally unbelievable. In other words, a mirror image of the... more info
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| | 9. |  | Suicide Hill
from Vintage
Price: $11.01
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I read this as the last of three in the paperback edition of the Lloyd Hopkins series, and found it the best - unusual, since at that stage, one can normally see through the plot and the characters. The Llloyd Hopkins character in the first two books, particularly the first, seems a little unreal,... more info
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| | 10. |  | Killer on the Road
from Harper Paperbacks
Price: $11.05
Customer Review:
I think it was his best book, even better than L.A. Confidential. Ellroy is an expert on the subject. His mother was murdered when he was ten years old. He's a strange dude (read his piece, "My Life As a Creep" in his collection of stories, articles, DESTINATION MORGUE), but an excellent writer. I... more info
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