Thursday, July 26, 2007

James Ellroy

A question in comments from RDR reminds me that the third (and final) installment of the great Ellroy's Underworld USA Trilogy is due at the end of the year, though there does not seem to be any evidence of that on Amazon (or anywhere else on the interwebs), so count me a little dubious.

RDR was asking about the proper order of the LA Quartet books. As you might have guessed, there are four of them, published thusly: "The Black Dahlia" (1987), "The Big Nowhere" (1988), "L.A. Confidential" (1990), and "White Jazz" (1992). A few comments: The first three are astonishingly good. I read them back-to-back over several weeks in the mid-90s. "White Jazz" is a different kettle of fish altogether. In terms of the way it is written, it is--how shall I put it?--experimental, an experiment that didn't work very well for me. As I recall (though, admittedly, it has been a while since I read it), it's mainly the rat-a-tat dialogue that Ellroy is famous for--though on a whole new level--without much of a narrative to hold the story together. Anyway, start with "The Black Dahlia" and see if you get sucked in.

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