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Title: Insight... and then some!
Review: I just finished reading this book in about two days. I, unlikely as it seems, didn't come to Ellroy because of the film version of L.A. Confidential, I started reading him because an awful lot of writers in the genre admire and recommend his work. I would recommend to any one thinking of getting this book to read as much of the "LA Quartet" (Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz) before tackling it. I think it makes more sense and is especially rewarding when you see the direct correlations between what happened in his real life and what he wrote about. The police routine in the second half is a bit pedantic, but I generally skimmed through a lot of it (as I suspect most people would do). When I finished it, I immediately pulled out Black Dahlia and began re-reading it.
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