Dick wrote:
"I liked Ellroy's early novels, but of late they've seemed a
bit confused and, ah, overly complex. This one takes a clean
straight path through a forest of criminal and political
obfuscation, real and fantasized. Like Hammett tidying up
after Ludlum."
Damn, Dick, why'd you have to do that?
I'm like you, I liked the earlier books. I'm one of those
rare people who actually preferred the Lloyd Hopkins books to
the LA Quartet, not that I didn't like those also. However, I
was somewhere between exasperated and bored with American
Quartet. I found My Dark Places equally frustrating, some
very interesting stuff hidden within a bunch of
self-indulgence.
So I'd finally decided to stop reading him. And then you had
to go and say that.
Mark
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