Rogue One: A Black Dahlia Story. James Ellroy uses the ‘missing week’ of notorious murderee Elizabeth Short to nuke 1940s Hollywood from orbit and take down some demons of his own. The world depicted here is stygian, this is not a beach read, but it is rivetingly written by a writer obviously, screa...
In theory, THE BLACK DAHLIA is a true-to-form noir that follows the recollections of a cop through his off-color criminal investigations and backroom police politics, punctuated by the one of the worst unsolved murders in American history.In practice, it’s a sex fantasy that occasionally remembers i...
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy is an intense, action-packed page turner. Even though the unsolved murder case from the 1940's has received a lot of coverage, Ellroy's book brings it to life with beautifully drawn characters. I gave it five stars. I purchased this on sale & read it in one sitt...
L.A. Confidential feels like the book that James Ellroy has been preparing for and working up to during his entire career up to this point. He takes all of the themes he explored in previous novels and packs them into a book that's an even larger, more epic tale of crime, perversion, and Hollywood c...
Corruption, debauchery, scandal and murder. This one starts out as a character study of two former boxers turned cops and then gets deep in several intertwined plots that shine a light on the seedy underbelly of Hollywood in the 1940’s. Thick with atmosphere, this one drips with noir and never loses...
I have so few auto-buy authors these days. I used to have many, but one by one I drop them when the stories turn predictable and the writing stale. One actually died, but anyway...Ellroy is heavy reading, and his dirty staccato style is what makes the scenery come alive. If you've glommed the rest o...
DNF at 45 %! A couple of years ago I studied theology and some books I read was good and some books was bloody awful and almost impossible to get through. But one had to. But this one I don't have to finish so now I'm throwing in the towel, saying adiós amigo...Hasta la vista baby! ...
DNF at 45 %!A couple of years ago I studied theology and some books I read was good and some books were bloody awful and almost impossible to get through. But one had to. But this one I don't have to finish so now I'm throwing in the towel, saying adiós amigo...Hasta la vista baby!Ps. I will read Bl...
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