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Hollywood Nocturnes (Vintage)
by
James Ellroy
Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting the perfect celebrity snatch–his own. An ex-con raging on revenge in High Darktown becomes a cop's worst nightmare. While chasing kidnappers, two cops stumble on an okie town as bloody as the O.K. Corral. A strongarm for Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen finds himself playing both ends against the middle, all for...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
June 12th 2007
by Vintage
(first published 1994)
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Just love the music of an Ellroy sentence. Great noir short stories. I go for the novels over short stories in general, but highly flavored appetizers make great meals too.
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What a light novel for Ellroy. I enjoyed it. His talent on precise plots is still alive even in short stories.
Good to see some familiar friends from the LA Quartet revived here. The stories are fun, nothing monumental. A good travel book of short stories.
Ellroy never ceases to amaze me. What's actually refreshing here is a longer sentence structure. Unlike the rapid-fire staccato of, say, THE COLD SIX THOUSAND, on display here is a more languid style. Characters and names from his other work show up here - THE BLACK DAHLIA's Lee Blanchard in "High Darktown," names like Stensland, Kafesjian, and Klein, and Buzz Meeks shines at the center of "Since I Don't Have You." I love Ellroy's rich, compact descriptions and his deliri...more
This collection of novellas is well written and has great characters but it's just a little repetitive. I love Ellroy's noir style but I should not have read this cover to cover.
Racconti neri con personaggi noti della letteratura di Ellroy.
Tutto sommato però nel complesso non convince molto.
Tutto sommato però nel complesso non convince molto.
J. Mark
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Recommends it for:
mystery, pulp, L.A. fans
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mystery
Whereas Raymond Chandler's Marlowe is almost too intelligent, smooth, honorable and witty for his own good, Ellroy's heroes are compromised, misogynistic, perverted and just kind of assholes. I loved it. "Dial AXE-6400" was thrilling to the core. A great, great read. I take one star away because I was sometimes a little TOO aware Ellroy's cleverness and wordplay.
I think Ellroy is a talented writer however, he has a tendency to tell the same story again and again. It was pretty boring to hear exactly the same lines and descriptions in different stories. This collection killed my desire to read any more of his books for a while.
While these short stories are quite readable and easily digested its apparent that Ellroy's plots, characters, and prose are best enjoyed in the form of novel-length potboilers. The opening essay is pretty excellent, and required reading for any Ellroy fan.
James Ellroy es un macarra buenísimo, lo sabe y lo dice cada vez que tiene ocasión. Además, le importa un carajo el resto de escritores del mundo: el va a lo que va y lo borda. Bien.
Tightly drawn characters battling for some crude sense of justice and sanity in a world where the world turns a deaf ear to depravity as long as it's on the side of the Law.
this is the first one I read. The short story set on the film set is my favorite of all of Ellory's writing.
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James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels—The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz—were international best sellers. His novel American Tabloid was Time magazine’s Best Book (fiction) of 1995; his memoir, My Dark Places, was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996. His novel The Cold Six Thousand was a New York ...more
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