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Title: Waste of time, money and paper!
Review: This is my first read of Ellroy, and barring some miraculous creative infusion to this author, will also be my last. I quit at about the half-way point, and deleted the book from my Kindle. If there is a plot, I couldn't follow it. The writing style is staccato, with lots of one word and disjointed "sentences". Every character....and there are many!....is either In publicservice or walks on the dark side of life, and all are corrupt and violent beyond belief. There's a lot of foul language and unintelligible slang which adds nothing but reader confusion. Perhaps I should have been warned by the title...for this is, indeed, trashy tabloid-type writing. It's a rare day that I can't finish a book, even a bad book, but this one beat me.
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