<![CDATA[American Tabloid]]>

false <![CDATA[American Tabloid]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168680757m/36064.jpg 36064 14 We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . . Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . . Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty . . . Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . . James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open. 35975 1995 American Tabloid total:1246|5:560|4:438|3:204|2:35|1:9| 1246 5243 1678 141 5 28 false false Thu Jul 02 13:44:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 09:56:44 -0700 2009
sometimes i chug coffee to the point where i'm glazed with sweat, red-eyed, about to crap my pants, and i throw my headphones on and blast either miles davis bitches brew or motorhead ace of spades. i si...more...]]> 5 5 false false Sat Sep 22 06:09:34 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 19 06:23:16 -0700 2009 5 more...]]> 3 4 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 22 13:45:39 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 09:40:38 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sat Feb 28 12:12:47 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 15:06:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 16 21:09:17 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 01:14:29 -0700 2009
Long time readers of Ellroy's...more...]]> 5 12 false false Thu Jun 11 13:39:21 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 13:46:59 -0700 2009
1. Don DeLillo, in his novel LIBRA, which Ellroy claims influenced this novel, somewhere writes in that book, "History is the sum total of all the things they're not telling us." This book is th...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 09:12:20 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 09:21:33 -0700 2008 Debauchery- Plus
Casual Racism- Minus
Conspiracy Theories- Plus
Extreme Violence- Plus
Moral Subtext- Ehhh.

Great book. Ellory is becoming one of my favorites. Basically and interwoven story involving mafia hitman, Jack and Bobby Kennedy, 2 wayward ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 08:41:58 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 07:39:37 -0700 2009
His extremely stylistic narrative approach is on display here. Not as extreme as it was in White Jazz, but still. Dig this, feature that, machi...more...]]> 3 7 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 12:17:42 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 21:51:42 -0700 2009 The Cold Six Thousand more. We'll see how Blood's a Rover goes, but overall I'm thinking James Ellroy is something I'd enjoyed much more eight years ago. What's the point, Pete/Boyd/Wayne/Littell? For such multitalented, resourceful and industrio...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Oct 25 20:16:17 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 09:35:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 22 false false Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 20:49:24 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 21:46:27 -0700 2009
I don’t hear this talk much anymore, but at one point folks were very interested in defining and/or writing “The Great American Novel.” I assert that this may be it. Forget everything abou...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 20:06:49 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 07:29:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Aug 04 06:04:19 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 06:15:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 09:44:52 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 22:52:51 -0800 2009
Ellroy takes the same multi layered, labyrinth plotting he perfected in the LA Quartet and applies it to the dark un...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Mar 12 11:35:07 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 11:36:37 -0700 2008
"A Vietnamese Communist is called Vietnam Cong-San in Vietnamese, which was shortened to Viet Cong by the Americans, then further shortened to VC, which, in military call-sign, is Victor Charlie, and thus...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Aug 16 07:35:35 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 14:17:02 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 19:17:59 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 00:37:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 05 11:00:54 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 11:03:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 04 07:50:54 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 15:32:26 -0700 2008
The story follows two rogue FBI agents and an ex-LA cop during the late 1950s and early 1960s. These three...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 12 05:45:36 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 05:50:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=36064