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Rated 5 starsjazz
Under-rated. Although this book has a few dry patches, it more than makes up for it as the majority of pages read fast paced and extremely entertaining. Among other things, Ellroy achieves new realism with this novel. Ellroy on top of his game. 5 stars.
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Rated 5 starsSimply the best.
I'm a big fan of a wide variety of fiction. Regardless of genre, I admire bold experimentation with prose technique. It doesn't get any better than Nabokov or Faulkner for me. I also like writers who tell far more conventional stories but do so with a flair for language, like Robertson Davies or, in the detective fiction area, Chandler and Hammett.The bottom line? Ellroy deserves to rank not only among Chandler and Hammett...
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Rated 5 starsA climactic finale
The final showdown that LA Confidential promised us comes together in this novel. Ed Exley and Dudley Smith finally go at it through a most unusual go between who doesn't know what hes getting into between these two, Dave Klein. Klein is a corrupt Vice cop in every way. He's out for himself. But when he gets drawn into the big chess match played by Exley and SMith he starts to question what hes been doing and who he is...
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Rated 5 starsSix Characters in Search of a Verb
The rumor is that Ellroy turned in a 900-page first draft. When his publisher protested, the author cut down the book to itspresent length by eliminating verbs, articles, adjectives, and most other parts of speech. The result is a breathless gallop through a darkly fascinating world of murder, incest, perversion, corruption, greed, and lust. And that's just for starters!Reading WHITE JAZZ is like reading Anthony Burgess's...
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Rated 5 starsDefinitive Ellroy
This is the most amazing book I have ever read, taking me inside the mind of corrupt,insomniac rogue cop and lawyer Dave Klein, the most memorable of Ellroy's alienated hard men. The plot is tight, zig-zagging all over LA and through a map of the darl underside of fifties America. Although Klein has quite rightly been described as a repulsive human being, like all of JA's characters he is true to himself and has the shopsoiled...
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