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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4191.The_Cold_Six_Thousand?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Cold Six Thousand" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1165390582m/4191.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4191.The_Cold_Six_Thousand?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Cold Six Thousand</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2887.James_Ellroy">James Ellroy</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9371347?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 1 of 5 stars<br/>Ultra-stylized, over-complicated, and ultimately uninteresting. Ellroy's voice, once one of the most unique in modern fiction, comes off as gibberish here. One can only hope that if he ever finishes "American Underworld" (which at this point is looking like the "Chinese Democracy" of crime fiction), it will be a return to form for Ellroy and not a further descent into self-parody. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/602563?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>