Ripping. Two cops, one privileged, educated, the other brawn and limited brain. Really enjoyable but you have to get on board with Ellroy’s style, his voice. A review of another of Elroy’s books, Perfidia, picks out that Ellroy cranks everything up and leaves it there. This is cool but can be fatiguing. Check out this interview with him to get a flavour of this style.
http://thequietus.com/articles/16855-james-ellroy-intervoew-perfidia-crime-la-quartet
Recommended and I’m now off to start Perfidia and re-watch the LA Confidential movie to see how they sliced up the book to make a comprehensible (and classifiable) movie.
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