In a message dated 12/12/07 7:17:06 AM,
decastro3@yahoo.com writes:
>
> Someone mentioned on the list that at some point
Ellroy would put it
> all together and knock our socks off... I think with
the Big Nowhere,
> he already did this. Really loved the book,
and need to re-read it,
> as I read it something like 10 years ago. I
really disliked White
> Jazz. Ellroy was trying on a new style, and I
don't think he had it
> altogether yet...but it came through pretty well in
American Tabloid.
> I see it listed as his "masterpiece." But I still
that title going
> Nowhere. Haven't read the Cold Six
Thousand.
>
I'd agree. The Big Nowhere is very compelling. I got in
trouble with my wife when we were on vacation when the book
came out, because I refused to budge from the hammock where I
was reading it and go sight-seeing with her. by the time
Ellroy got to American Tabloid, all his gifts and obsessions
seemed to finally cohere. but trying to top himself with The
Cold Six Thousand, the plotting had taken a backseat to the
prose
John Lau
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