<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<GoodreadsResponse>
	<Request>
		<authentication>false</authentication>
		    <method><![CDATA[]]></method>
	</Request>
	
<book>
  <id>918496</id>
  <title><![CDATA[The Black Dahlia (Film Tie in)]]></title>
  <isbn><![CDATA[0099498537]]></isbn>
  <isbn13><![CDATA[9780099498537]]></isbn13>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179446370m/918496.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179446370s/918496.jpg</small_image_url>
  <description><![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]></description>
  <work>
  <best_book_id type="integer">21704</best_book_id>
  <books_count type="integer">42</books_count>
  <desc_user_id type="integer" nil="true"></desc_user_id>
  <id type="integer">434</id>
  <media_type nil="true"></media_type>
  <original_language_id type="integer" nil="true"></original_language_id>
  <original_publication_day type="integer" nil="true"></original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer" nil="true"></original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1987</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Black Dahlia</original_title>
  <rating_dist>total:3395|5:632|4:1167|3:1090|2:392|1:114|</rating_dist>
  <ratings_count type="integer">3395</ratings_count>
  <ratings_sum type="integer">11996</ratings_sum>
  <reviews_count type="integer">4771</reviews_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">375</text_reviews_count>
</work>

  <average_rating><![CDATA[3.53]]></average_rating>
  <ratings_count><![CDATA[6]]></ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count><![CDATA[0]]></text_reviews_count>
  
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/918496.The_Black_Dahlia]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/918496.The_Black_Dahlia]]></link>
  <authors>
    <author>
    <id>2887</id>
        <name><![CDATA[James Ellroy]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1251268467p5/2887.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1251268467p2/2887.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2887.James_Ellroy]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.79</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>11999</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>1067</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>
    <reviews start="1" end="20" total="4770">
      <review>
  <id>1012162</id>
    <user>
    <id>74578</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Mademoiselle]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/74578-mademoiselle]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1185022367p3/74578.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1185022367p2/74578.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.51</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2987</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>6</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu May 03 12:28:10 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 11 12:39:52 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I'm not big on this whole &quot;going green&quot; trend, but today I thought about one thing all book lovers can do to contribute to society: use your library card more often. <br/><br/>You probably thought I had something clever to say. Sorry to disappoint but let me explain. <br/><br/>My Analy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1012162">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1012162]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1012162]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>41244904</id>
    <user>
    <id>1711431</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Eric_W]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Forreston, IL]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1711431-eric-w]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1243733882p3/1711431.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1243733882p2/1711431.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="mysteries-and-thrillers" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 29 19:44:27 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 14 18:31:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[&quot;I want to be known as the greatest crime novelist who ever lived.&quot; Strong words from James Ellroy, whose novels combine the harsh dialogue and dark characters of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep" title="The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler">Raymond Chandler</a> and the evisceration  of dirty family secrets that Ross MacDonald was so good at. The Black Dahlia takes place...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41244904">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41244904]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41244904]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>72776028</id>
    <user>
    <id>88967</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Ben]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lakeland, FL]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/88967-ben]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1260833389p3/88967.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1260833389p2/88967.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>16</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="read-in-2009" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 28 10:03:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 27 07:52:12 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Ellroy, heard enough about him recently?  Another GR craze.  I’ve been putting off this review for two weeks now, and honestly, I still don’t want to write it.  The thing is, while I only enjoyed this to an “OK” level, I really <em>can</em> understand the commotion surrounding the guy.  He wrote this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72776028">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72776028]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72776028]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>38413507</id>
    <user>
    <id>356176</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cambridge, MA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/356176-sarah]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1194826689p3/356176.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1194826689p2/356176.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Feb 07 02:14:25 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 22 17:54:46 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 07 02:14:25 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[(First off, I should say that besides having seen a few previews of the movie version that came out a while back, I know nothing about the Black Dahlia or the wealth of other books about this case except for the 200 or so pages I've read so far. The movie previews had piqued my salacious curiosity a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38413507">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38413507]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38413507]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>22606586</id>
    <user>
    <id>1162953</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Tabby]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Canton, OH]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1162953-tabby]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1210810739p3/1162953.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1210810739p2/1162953.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="true-crime" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 20 06:48:38 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 20 07:19:01 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Based on a notorious, unsolved Los Angeles murder case, the central drama of this hard-boiled mystery--set in the late 1940s--begins when the body of Elizabeth Short, an engagingly beautiful and promiscuous woman in her 20s, is discovered in a vacant lot, cut in half, disemboweled and bearing eviden...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22606586">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22606586]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22606586]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>11211592</id>
    <user>
    <id>723779</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Sara]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[West Harrison, NY]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/723779-sara]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1198940881p3/723779.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1198940881p2/723779.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 29 07:44:23 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 30 11:10:04 -0800 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This is probably the hardest to read of James Ellroy's novels, but it's also one of my favorites. Apparently, Ellroy modeled the tragic death of the young starlet in the novel after his mother's mysterious death. In typical Ellroy fashion, there's plenty of intrigue, corrupt government officials, in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11211592">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11211592]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11211592]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>29041302</id>
    <user>
    <id>83144</id>
    <name><![CDATA[El]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Pittsburgh, PA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/83144-el]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1242346801p3/83144.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1242346801p2/83144.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="1001-books-list" />
        <shelf name="late20th-centurylit" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (193/1001)]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 02 03:45:18 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 16 17:13:35 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I have been out of town for the past week and do not have much desire to go in-depth in my discussion of books I have read in that time.  <em>The Black Dahlia</em> in particular is one that I was so highly disappointed in that I don't have the heart to give it much more than an &quot;it was okay&quot; rating...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29041302">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29041302]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29041302]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>23318236</id>
    <user>
    <id>247421</id>
    <name><![CDATA[lisa_emily]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Oakland, CA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/247421-lisa-emily]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1222981689p3/247421.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1222981689p2/247421.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="1001-books" />
        <shelf name="fictions" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[harddick-types]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 30 11:58:20 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 05 21:34:54 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I was initially surprised by the tough-guy narrative style, but it fit the style and created the characters. Most interesting about this book is how the characters are manifested; each character was built of many shades between decency and fallibility; each character overcomes or is debilitated by p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23318236">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23318236]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23318236]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>740372</id>
    <user>
    <id>60698</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Prague, Czech Republic]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/60698-matt]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1259934300p3/60698.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1259934300p2/60698.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[detective fiction readers]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 16 03:56:51 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 16 18:02:06 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I had to give a speech about this book for a class.  I forgot what the hell I said.  Detective fiction, as I found out, isn't my cup of tea so much.  Ellroy, however, is a cut above the rest (barring Ray Chandler, who's bad ass).  He's literary and his plots will have you sliding every which way.  H...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/740372">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/740372]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/740372]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>77016933</id>
    <user>
    <id>40816</id>
    <name><![CDATA[christa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Duluth, MN]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/40816-christa]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1175033255p3/40816.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1175033255p2/40816.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 07 11:05:30 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Nov 07 12:20:46 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchert are boxers turned coppers who have recently forged a friendship and partnership after kicking the shit out of each other in a highly-publicized, post-retirement boxing match that resulted in huge headlines, cash for the LAPD, and a promotion for Bucky. <br/><br/>T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77016933">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77016933]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77016933]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>75046980</id>
    <user>
    <id>2269974</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Leanne]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Erwin, TN]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2269974-leanne-dynneson]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1253152413p3/2269974.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1253152413p2/2269974.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 19 13:49:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 25 16:56:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This book is a zinger, front to back. Narrated by a jaded boxer/detective/Warrants cop in the 1940's, the blood and guts of Hollywood's crime scene is spilled drop by drop---word by cutting word hits hard in detached cop lingo. <br/><br/>The Black Dahlia was the nickname for a woman found sliced i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75046980">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75046980]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75046980]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>56314314</id>
    <user>
    <id>970762</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Jim]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Crown Point, IN]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/970762-jim]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1204770611p3/970762.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1204770611p2/970762.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">541011</id>
  <isbn>0892962062</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780892962068</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">3</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175640620m/541011.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175640620s/541011.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/541011.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>16</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="historicalish-fiction" />
        <shelf name="police-and-thieves" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu May 28 09:14:15 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat May 16 15:54:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 28 09:14:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Although I found the story a little too rushed toward the end, it was still a pretty good read.<br/><br/>This book involves the late 1940s torture-murder of Elizabeth Short (aka &quot;the Black Dahlia&quot;), a case as yet unsolved. It isn't so much about the case itself, as the effect it has on B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56314314">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56314314]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56314314]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>51841640</id>
    <user>
    <id>529705</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Beverly]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Niles, IL]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/529705-beverly]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1192126635p3/529705.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1192126635p2/529705.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="2009" />
        <shelf name="audio" />
        <shelf name="crime" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Apr 07 13:32:23 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 07 13:43:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Sort of a tour de force in reproducing a 40s hard boiled detective story. Based on a true (horrific) Hollywood crime, Black Dahlia features two police detectives who become obsessed with the victim and risk their careers and lives to catch her murderer. Very authentic 40s attitude which turns out to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51841640">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51841640]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51841640]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>77102771</id>
    <user>
    <id>1646550</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Casta]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Centreville, VA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1646550-casta]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1224702357p3/1646550.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1224702357p2/1646550.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">882526</id>
  <isbn>0739323881</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780739323885</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">3</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179170206m/882526.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179170206s/882526.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/882526.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>2.75</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>8</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled &quot;Hillikers,&quot; read by Stephen Hoye.<br/><br/>On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia&#8211;and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.<br/><br/>Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard. Both are obsessed with the Dahlia&#8211;driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl&#8217;s twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches&#8211;into a region of total madness.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 08 10:00:58 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 09 10:48:17 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I was reminded of Raymond Chandler's narrative style in this book (not the least-of-why because Chandler wrote the screenplay for &quot;The Blue Dahlia,&quot; on which the title of this book and its story are based), and the movie &quot;L.A. Confidential,&quot; which follows police officers rather t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77102771">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77102771]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77102771]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>79967210</id>
    <user>
    <id>2648390</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Helen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Philadelphia, PA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2648390-helen]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1258217274p3/2648390.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1258217274p2/2648390.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 05 08:33:54 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 05 10:01:58 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[First I will say that I did not finish this book because it was not what I expected... I was hoping for a somewhat imaginary fictional account of Elizabeth Short - aka The Black Dahlia- and perhaps some speculation as what led to her murder and who may have murdered her.. Instead, this book is about...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79967210">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79967210]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79967210]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>76214742</id>
    <user>
    <id>1206654</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Suz]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Ballston Spa, NY]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1206654-suz]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1221704384p3/1206654.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1221704384p2/1206654.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 30 10:20:27 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 30 10:24:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I've known about the cold case of the Black Dahlia for years.  This book was the fictionalized version of the story.  In my opinion this was a sleazy, crude, discusting attempt to make a bundle of money on the back of someone else's misfortune. This is the book the movie was scripted from I understa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76214742">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76214742]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76214742]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>27425216</id>
    <user>
    <id>1335243</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Christine]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Corpus Christi, TX]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1335243-christine]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1217095317p3/1335243.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1217095317p2/1335243.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 16 10:37:24 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 16 10:38:12 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I cannot stress enough how much better the book is than the movie.  Very suspensful and creepy.]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27425216]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27425216]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>51628815</id>
    <user>
    <id>2213498</id>
    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2213498-david]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1239562798p3/2213498.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1239562798p2/2213498.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 05 18:25:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 12 12:13:07 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Intensely disturbing noir/police procedural based loosely on the still-unsolved 1948 murder of aspiring actress Elizabeth Short (dubbed &quot;The Black Dahlia&quot; by the press).  The story centers on two beat cops on the LAPD who wind up on the case.  The POV character, former boxer &quot;Bucky&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51628815">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51628815]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51628815]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>57623093</id>
    <user>
    <id>208489</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Margie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Berkeley, CA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/208489-margie]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1184977748p3/208489.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1184977748p2/208489.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="mystery" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu May 28 10:28:36 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 28 10:35:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>1</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Upon finishing this book, my overall feeling was, &quot;Well, now at least I can say I've read James Ellroy.&quot;  I kept wondering, while I was reading it, what makes people consider him such a good writer.  He's certainly cinematic.  I've not seen L.A. Confidential or The Black Dahlia, but I coul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57623093">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57623093]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57623093]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>73643196</id>
    <user>
    <id>602951</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Carrie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/602951-carrie]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1194300900p3/602951.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1194300900p2/602951.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">21704</id>
  <isbn>0446698873</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780446698870</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">328</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078m/21704.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia</link>
  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3395</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.  <p>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.  <p>&quot;Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre.&quot; (Los Angeles Times)  <p>&quot;Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit.&quot; (Publishers Weekly)</p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
  <published>1987</published>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="biography" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 06 11:46:18 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 30 15:00:43 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[For those who haven't read this book or seen the movie, the Black Dahlia is a mystery/crime novel based on fact. There was a real wannabe starlet nicknamed Black Dahlia who was brutally murdered in the mid-40s in Los Angeles. The novel takes liberties with the truth, though, adding characters includ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73643196">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73643196]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73643196]]></link>
</review>
    </reviews>
  <popular_shelves>
          <shelf name="to-read" />
          <shelf name="mystery" />
          <shelf name="fiction" />
          <shelf name="currently-reading" />
          <shelf name="crime" />
          <shelf name="1001" />
          <shelf name="noir" />
          <shelf name="1001-books" />
          <shelf name="true-crime" />
      </popular_shelves>
  <book_links>
    <book_link>
  <id>8</id>
  <name><![CDATA[WorldCat]]></name>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=918496</link>
</book_link>
  </book_links>
</book>
</GoodreadsResponse>