At 02:32 PM 5/15/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Actually, it's "L. A. Confidential" where Buzz meets
his demise in the first
>chapter. Are you thinking perhaps of "The Big
Nowhere" the previous book in
>the quartet in which Buzz is featured? Btw, didn't
care much for Brown's
>Requiem either, but a movie was made recently of it
too starring Michael
>Rooker. Nothing to write home about as I
remember.
I recall quite clearly that Buzz Meeks got shot (and killed?)
in the first ten pages of "The Big Nowhere" because I only
read the first twenty. And I also recall that the book "L.A.
Confidential" was radically different from the movie (wherein
Buzz Meeks makes an initial appearance before being offed and
stuffed in the crawl space beneath Susan Lefferts' mother's
house).
As Sally said about Parker, I am most disappointed by Elroy's
work. After a promising beginning ("The Black Dahlia"), he
has pretty much failed to hold my interest. This is
especially true of "The Big Nowhere", "White Jazz," and
"Brown's Requiem", none of which I have finished. I still
think
"My Dark Places" is his best work, because there's a reason
for him to go on and on (and on and on) about the shady past
of the murder victim involved, and to tie that dark part of
her to his own dark interests/brooding obsessions, because
she was his own mother.
Brian
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