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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, BaxDeal@... wrote:
>
> 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
>
The Big Nowhere and Clandestine are my favorite Ellroy
novels. I am also a fan of the Dick Contino's Blues novella
and stories and his nonfiction book My Dark Places. I found
American Tabloid very disagreeable, not compelling. The Cold
Six Thousand seemed better, but no great shakes either.
Ellroy's writing has enormous power (there's a volcano inside
of him) but it works best when he restrains it a bit.
Best,
mrt
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