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Title: Every good writer is entitled to...
Review: ...one poor book. And this is Ellroy's. Pretentious nonsense populated by one-dimensional psychopaths and their supposedly sophisticated, but actually incredibly silly, women. "Love" comes out of nowhere, at the drop of a hat. A weak-sister FBI agent begins a "relationship," out of the blue, with a physically scarred girl who, up until that moment, had been his de facto niece. She writes him a note that begins "School bodes." School bodes?! And she cries the first time he touches her scars. Yuck! Give it a miss.
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