American Tabloid (CD-Audio)

from seventime

Brutally over-written but somehow perfect.

from sharv

Ellroy's best, never equalled, not even by Ellroy himself. If you have a taste for crime, this book will spoil you. Few others are as entertaining and gritty as this one.

from 5hrdrive

Wow. No way it all went down exactly like this, but it could have, anyway I think Ellroy's pretty close. There's so much detail here that it took a second reading just to get a good idea of what's going on. The first time through, I think I was focused on the Kennedy assassination stuff so much t...

from bontley

I wanted to give this book another try; it's subject matter really interests me. It's just that the angry, brutal prose seems to me to be overly sensational and unnecessarily sadistic. Still, it's an engrossing read, with character growth and nice twists and turns to reach an end that history tol...

from jonfaith

(this was a diversion, something to transport)Much of the GR community shares a united front on American Tabloid, comparing it to meth or serial lines of blow, Ellroy is credited with thousands of pages of plot stripped down to slide into a mere 600 page volume. There is a measure of truth in sai...