In a message dated 12/11/07 2:02:53 AM,
scatalogic@aol.com writes:
>
> American Tabloid was the first Ellroy I read - I'm a
very late comer to
> noir/hardboiled and before Ellroy I was a Sherlock
Holmes and historical
> crime
> fiction man - so that may have some bearing on our
divergence of views. It
> set
> me off on a rampage of Ellroy purchases, starting
with the LA Quartet, in
> which I think he honed the style of Underworld
USA but didn't quite have it
> right
> in White Jazz.
>
I'd been a devotee of the Demon Dog since the Lloyd Hopkins
days, saw him speak many times, thought American Tabloid was
his masterpiece
and yet, I hit the Ellroy wall with The Cold Six Thousand.
all the criticisms that many have about American Tabloid came
home to roost for me with his follow up work and I was unable
to finish it
has anybody here read The Cold Six Thousand cover to
cover?
John Lau
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