Brown's Requiem
by James Ellroy
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Author: James EllroyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-10-01
ISBN: 0380731770
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Book Reviews of Brown's Requiem
Book Review: Excellent First Novel
Summary: 4 Stars
I want to start off by saying that I will not recap the book, it isn't my style, I am not good at it, and I think that is can give too much away for someone who has not read the book yet. Also, I am sure others have and why do it again?
What I will tell you is my impression and the tone of the book. This book, like all of Ellroy's books the atmosphere practically jumps off the page. Without being wordy like some authors he manages to set the scene, the emotion and the feel in just a few sentences. This book is dark, it is fiery, but more than that is shockingly emotional. It isn't overt, and it takes a second read to really feel it, but there is a subtext to the characters that most will lose in the action and the Ellroyisms. There is good action, there is snappy dialogue and there are a few twists.
I will say this as the only negative. For some reason Ellroy telegraphs the ending, and that was bothersome. I didn't mind too much because to read Ellroy is to appreciate the road not the destination. Read this book, it is worth the time.
Summary of Brown's Requiem
Fritz Brown's L.A.--and his life--are masses of contradictions, like stirring chorales sung for the dead. A less-than-spotless former cop with a drinking problem--a private eye-cum-repo man with a taste for great music--he has been known to wallow in the grime beneath the Hollywood glitter. But Fritz Brown's life is about to change, thanks to the appearance of a racist psycho who flashes too much cash for a golf caddie and who walked away clean from a multiple murder rap. Reopening this cas could be Fritz's redemption; his welcome back to a moral world and his path to a pure and perfect love. But to get there, he must make it through a grim, lightless place where evil has no national borders; where lies beget lies and death begets death; where there's little tolerance for Bach or Beethoven and deadly arson is a lesser mortal sin; and where a p.i.'s unhealthy interest in the past can turn beautiful music into funeral dirge.Before he began to remap the geography of the crime novel and venture out into the darkest noir night of them all with L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, White Jazz, and American Tabloid, James Ellroy started his career with this powerful but basically straightforward book about Los Angeles private eye Fritz Brown. At first glance, the story of an investigation into a crooked golf tournament that opens up to include arson and murder could be just another work by any one of the dozens of good writers who have used Southern California as a metaphor for the decline and fall of civilization. But behind the terse prose, astute readers will soon begin to hear something else--the increasingly loud clamor of a cry of pain that will eventually become the barely manageable madness of Ellroy's later books. --Dick Adler
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