How the heck can someone be interested in: Latin American
imperialism, Hoover's final years, the escalation of Viet
Nam, Hoffa's end and Sonny Liston, but have no interest in
Watergate? Its like reading The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the
Ring, The Twin Towers, then saying, 'Thats enough! I'm not
going to read Return of the King.' Anyway, I hope he finds a
more probable end to Jimmy Hoffa than he did to Elizabeth
Short. Its hard for me to believe he doesn't see a link
between the disappearance of Hoffa and Watergate. Nixon
commuted Hoffa's sentence, after all. But Hoffa didn't
disappear until July of 1975. How's he going to keep that
within his 1972 cut off date?
Patrick King
--- jacquesdebierue <
jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, scatalogic@...
> wrote:
>
> > "I got it from the man himself: the third book
in
> the Underworld
> U.S.A.
> > Trilogy will be released in March '08. It will
end
> in May of '72,
> and Ellroy has
> > said he will not write past that moment in time
in
> his future works.
> In other
> > words, all his subsequent work will take
place
> before May '72. I
> wanted to
> > pump him for details but I didn't. I do
recall
> him saying this book
> will focus
> > on Latin American imperialism, Hoover's
final
> years, the escalation
> of Nam,
> > Hoffa's end and Sonny Liston. He has no
interest
> in Watergate.
> >
> > No word on if Wayne Tedrow will be the
sole
> protagonist or if he
> creates
> > another pair to make it a trio.
>
> I hope age and mastery lead Ellroy to simplify
his
> style, something
> that has happened to many writers (usually to
the
> great benefit of
> their work, and colaterally, of their
readers).
>
> When Gabriel Garcíˇ MᲱuez published _Love in
the
> time of cholera_,
> many people felt that he had let them down; in
fact,
> he had
> streamlined his style and he had produced
an
> authentic work of art. No
> matter, there were those who loved him for
the
> torrential style that
> he practiced his most famous novel. He has
never
> gone back to that
> style. I wish Ellroy would totally abandon the
style
> that started in
> White Jazz and got ridiculous in American
Tabloid
> and The Cold Six
> Thousand. In Dick Contino's Blues he achieved a
kind
> of classicism, a
> hardboiled style that did not overwhelm the
reader.
> That would be my
> wish, anyway, which counts for nuthin', of
course.
>
> Best,
>
> mrt
>
>
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