Mario said:
>As to Brown's Requiem, it did not make me retch. In
fact, I enjoyed it. It
>has a pulp feel to it, a
>brazenness that I found appealing. I haven't reread
it, though. Maybe today
>I would find fault
>with it. Oh, and I also liked Suicide Hill, which has
good
>characterization.
I picked up American Tabloid as a high school kid who had
pretty much only read the Spenser books beforehand. I had to
make myself finish it. A couple years later I picked up The
Big Nowhere and thought it was even worse.
I kept hearing good things about Ellroy, so I gave Suicide
Hill a try, and that's when his writing clicked for me. I
raced his catalogue order, and--with the exception of Killer
on the Road--thought he got better with each book through
American Tabloid.
The Cold Six Thousand was a bit m-e-h for me, but I'm still
looking forward to whatever comes next.
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