Red Sheet
Ellroy also likes to be semi-funny, his specialty being sadistic slapstick (which sometimes disgusts me), and...he likes to meditate on the American dream of financial and reputational success ... Whenever I start another Ellroy novel, I become a fly, buzzing ghoulishly over multiply stabbed corpses and taking refreshment from some backdoor schemer’s cask-strength whiskey bottle
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A master of brutal noir, Ellroy digs deep into his imagination in this densely populated depiction of the political demimondes ... Fascinating ... A baroque crime fabulist, Ellroy swamps the reader with words and characters.
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As always, Ellroy’s jargon is jazzy, his characters caricatures on steroids. In the latest Otash adventure, readers will find themselves seduced by Ellroy’s hipster take on history’s seamy underside and the amped-up atmosphere in which the plausible and improbable ooze together in a head-spinning daze.
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