The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
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Book Reviews of The Big Nowhere
Book Review: Addictive and gritty to the last page...
Summary: 4 Stars
Although this book may take a little while to get into (To the reviewer who only read to page 50, I had the same reaction, keep reading, it's worth it!) it is eventually compelling and quite rewarding. Ellroy's ability to shock you and then challenge you with your own compliance to the horror depicted on the written page is skillful indeed. A fun read, although the police brutality and constant epithet-slinging can get tiring. The ending is also a bit of a throw-back to Hitchcock's "Psycho"-- in which a therapist explains, quite patly, the pathology of the killer. A fun read, and definitely worth it.Book Review: spam reviewer
Summary: 4 Stars
J. Green "socio-economo-ethnomusicologist" has copied and pasted the same review verbatim for three Ellroy novels ("Scott Turow for the louche set"). While Green may have read one of Ellroy's novels and found it lacking, the review is so bad that it is simply not credible that he or she actually read the other two books reviewed. This amounts to spamming and is not helpful to anyone trying to decide if the books in question are worth reading.Book Review: danny upshaw rules
Summary: 4 Stars
compelling cop chiller ~ and a graphic depiction of what every cop has to do to stay ahead in LA, including deception and murder ~ good-ish cop danny upshaw just wants to get on with decoding a serial killer's blood splash patterns and forget about his passion for his high school mate tim ~ if only ellroy hadn't killed upshaw off two-thirds of the way through ~ does the character appear in any of his earlier work?Book Review: Wow
Summary: 4 Stars
Dudley Smith is one bad, bad man. I'm so glad that he's nearly always a central character, but that we never get to follow his thoughts behind his actions. I cannot see Dud in my mind without seeing James Cromwell, he was absolutely PERFECT for that role. Looking forward to finishing the quartet with the Black Dahlia.Book Review: Better than Black Dahlia
Summary: 4 Stars
The plot hangs together better than Black Dahlia and the Red Scare theme is inherently interesting. I think ellroy is too cartoonish to be a great writer, but I do keep reading his books.