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Fast paced, brutal, and uncompromising.Reading some passages of James Elroy's novel can seem like a slap in the face. The author draws the reader into a world of ruthless movers and shakers that are behind the headlines and events swirling around John Kennedy's, BobbyKennedy's and Martin Luther King's assasinations, Howard Hughes obsession with buying Los Vegas, and the drug trade from Vietnam. Whether you believe all the suppositions and subterfuge, this book is impossible to put down once you start..


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The Cold Six Thousand James Ellroy Books Reviews

If you've read any James Ellroy before this, you know what you're in for. I'll just say that the new characters gel well, and that Pete Bondurant is one of the most interesting anti-heroes wrapped in the guise of a gangland goon that I've ever read about. You feel for the guy. Those who haven't read any James Ellroy, why the heck are you reading this first? It's the 2nd book in a trilogy, so go and read American Tabloid, then refer to the first part of this review.
First a suggestion, then a rant Don't read this book out of order. Read *American Tabloid* first. Absolutely read this book. But read *Tabloid* first. Now the rant

People say this book's hard to read. You know what? People didn't like *Ulysses* either. They said it was "hard to read." *Ulysses* wasn't hard to read and this book is way easier to read than *Ulysses*. It's hard to encompass. It's hard to reduce to the comfortable categories of the Modern Langauge Association's Rule of Law, or what the book reviewer in the New York Times sanctions as "responsible" to "history," an annoying observation, as it could just as easily be applied to, oh I don't know, Shakespeare for example. It's hard to compare because there's nothing to compare it too. This book swings. It shifts. It swells and crests and dips like angry surf. This book is fun to read.

Some people also think the book was underedited. The book is not underedited. That's what some said (and some still say)about *Tristan and Isolde* and Charlie Parker Too many notes. Nonsense. Which notes would they have cut? Who would they have chosen to cut them?

Some people compare this book to Ellroy's other books and give it a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down. This book transcends thumbs-up/thumbs-down criticism. That sort of thing works, maybe, for the lightweights that pass for literati of our time. Does anybody REALLY think that school kids are going to be reading Richard Ford 50 years hence? John (zzzzzzz...) Updike? Some voices will not be compared, categorized, or successfully evaluated, in short, because they are too furious, too fine.

Both reading and making fiction are moral acts. Daring to face the darkness qualifies one to talk about the light. An interesting point made, not by the New York Times but in the Sunday Times Book Review, is that Ellroy doesn't really fit the category of "noir" because, ultimately, he's too tender and even hyper-sensitive to he humanity of his characters, too willing to find the soft-spots in the midst of the brutality that is the wallpaper of Ellroy's visionary world. Leaving aside the problem of trying to fit this writer into categories, it's a good observation. Ellroy, *de profundis*, shows an affirming flame. Look for it in lives crushed by horror, in the street, in the hope against hope trhough which all of Ellroy's characters do what they do, however driven they are, however completely they fail.

Readers think they have to "get" Ellroy. Reviewers especially. They want to justify their existence by pretending they can evaluate a vision this large. But Ellroy won't be got. The fallacy that necessarily informs a critic's explanation or evaluation of Ellroy is that she comprehends the work. That her vision is large enough to accomodate his and pass on it. I haven't encountered that critic yet.

Get a first edition while you still can. This book's going to be around for a long long time.
I have to say I think this is my favorite James Ellroy novel. I galloped through the LA quadrilogy and then very nearly before I regained my nerve, I leaped back into the hell hole of the 1960s as depicted here-in . Crazy shenanigans abound , huge swaths of similarly minded brutal characters romp, rock, roll rampage, and rollick on every note in this raucous symphony. gallons of blood , drool, semen, and other wet surprises soak through the bindings of this book. If you havent read the 1st book in the serious, then dont bother applying to Mr Ellroys school of hard-knocks quite yet.
Wow. This one is actually a bit better than the first in the series, because of the MLK assassination which was a heart wrenching moment in history--and in the book. That extra dose of emotional involvement on the part of the reader (me) made it feel less like a modern retelling of "Candide" and more like the story of all our lives that we don't want to admit to ourselves.
No commas. A world record. Just 47 commas in 672 pages. Not 700 pages. Some would have you believe that. Not so. 672 pages. The few commas could be colons. As in "Somebody yelled, 'limos!Somebody yelled, 'Him.' ''
No. Not that "Him.'' Howard Hughes, who thought of himself as more powerful than that "Him.''
But seriously.
I've been an Ellroy fan since "Black Dahlia, and the rest of the LA Noir series, which was actually written in prose, not stacatto. But after being originally turned off by his new style in "White Jazz,'' I've gotten used to it. And once you get by it, both this "novel'' and "American Tabloid'' become a brutal and (perhaps) fairly accurate portrayal of the late '50s and '60s. (At least Oliver Stone would think so.
The best of Ellroy's heroes have always been flawed. But this bunch outdoes them. I'm not sure how he generates sympathy for a corrupt ex-FBI man and mob lawyer or a stone anti-Castro killer, but he manages. My feeling Compared to J. Edgar, the real-life figure around whom the book revolves, they're up front about who and what they are. Hoover never was.
Overall worth reading if you can get through 672 pages with just 47 commas.
Not for the faint of heart. A novel based on some real events and some fictional events and a mixture of real people and the author's characters (no doubt based on real people). Its actually the second book in a trilogy,and it can stand alone as a complete story.
It includes some rough language and some rough activities. But at the end of the day its one heck of a read. I liked it. I've read almost all of James Ellroy's books and enjoyed them all. If you are interested I suggest starting with some of his early writing and then advance as he polishes his skills an author. And in my book he is one heck of an author.
Fast paced, brutal, and uncompromising.Reading some passages of James Elroy's novel can seem like a slap in the face. The author draws the reader into a world of ruthless movers and shakers that are behind the headlines and events swirling around John Kennedy's, BobbyKennedy's and Martin Luther King's assasinations, Howard Hughes obsession with buying Los Vegas, and the drug trade from Vietnam. Whether you believe all the suppositions and subterfuge, this book is impossible to put down once you start..