Crime Wave : Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.

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Summary: Crime Wave's a Wicked Wonderful Work
Review: The Demon Dog dishes out his dirtiest, most daring, most dastardly, debauchery to date. Getchell's got giant gonads and guts galore. Contino carries charismatic crime capers to catastrophic climaxes. Ellory's emotional actual-event epitaphs encourage entire exposure. Love these legendary lores that lay down the law and lore you in.

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Summary: Not my cup of tea - though it may be yours!
Review: When will I ever learn? - James Ellroy is NOT my cup of tea. However if you go for short, smiple, one-two-punch simple declarative sentences and lots of dirty words - perhaps he is yours! This book is in Ellroy's usual tough-guy mode, and frankly I found it a great bore. Why do I keep buying his books, anyway?

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Summary: Too terse
Review: While James Ellroy has many fans, and while agreeing that short articles are undoubtedly his metier, I found that a whole book made up of these sentences was just too much !! His love affair with alliteration is fine for a few phrases, but whole chapters..just too tiring.This was probably the wrong book to read as an introduction to his work, so I'll try another where the style is a little more flowing so that one can concentrate on the story without being irritated by hte jerky sentences.