Hi Peps.
I've never read any James Ellroy, but on a couple of occasions I've come across people who LOVE his work. And on both occasions these people have been damn fine human beings: intelligent, creative, knowledgeable and popular. In essence, everything I want to be! So I think I can highly recommend his novels.
The Black Dahlia is supposed to be good, and I've heard of LA Confidential.
Read the LA Quartet first, which is Black Dahlia, Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, and White Jazz. Then read American Tabloid, then The Cold SIx Thousand. Then everything else including his autobiography.
I love Ellroy to pieces and I'm all the things gggggareth lists with knobs on.
Thanks, gggg & mad! :-)
I think the library has all those, so I'll start by ordering The Black Dahlia...
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La Confidential is a good book I haven't really liked anything else of his though.
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Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
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Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.