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Read 70, but must include 10. My favorites of the year, in no order:
1. Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
2. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
3. A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
4. Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace
5. Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer (nonfiction)
6 ... ... jags)
1. Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn - Funny, sardonic, and sometimes sweet without being saccharine
2. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy - Complicated plot, but enjoyable like the movie.
3. A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel - I chose this (barely) over Wolf Hal ... ... by Christopher Brookmyre
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
Gardens of the Moon* by Steven Erikson
Faerie Tale* by Raymond E. Feist ... by Colm Tóibín
57. Lux the Poet by Martin Millar
58. A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
59. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
November
60. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
61. Some Hope : A Triology by Edward St. Aubyn
62. Thus Was Ad ... ... read The Forever War which is odd as it sounds really good. Thanks for the review.
I also second the recommendation of L.A. Confidential (although I like the film equally, very different though) L.A. Confidential has just gone on my wish list, sounds like a really good read. The other night the movie was on TV and my husband and I were hooked again - what a great movie! Authors E - L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy is a dark sprawling tale of crime and corruption surrounding the LAPD in the Fifties. The movie version is hailed as a classic (deservedly so imo) but the book takes things much deeper, expanding on characters and the timescale lasting around ... L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy. "Those photographs are sealed LAPD evidence, never released to the press or public."
L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
"Boss, is there a carrot in this for me?" ... was like he had been taking notes for years and had to include all his Deep Thoughts.
I had a hard time slogging through L. A. Confidential but I found myself thinking about it afterwords. I think where Ellroy excels is in managing complex plots. I don't much like his prose style--calling ... ... Colin Dexter - Last Bus to Woodstock
E. James Ellroy - L.A. Confidential
F. Stephen Fry - The Stars' Tennis Balls
G. Robert Goddard - Dying to Tell
H. Wil ... ... before and during WWII may be considered a bit too recent for some. Ditto James Elroy's seminal (and superb) LA Quartet LA Confidential, White Jazz, The Black Dahlia and The Big Nowhere.
... naar Van Oorschot gebeld met de vraag wanneer ik weer iets van Douwesz kon verwachten. Zo enthousiast was ik over Strikt.
Veel leesplezier ! ... currently in a crime novel phase, but not exclusively. I like James Ellroy. I recently finished American Tabloid, and L.A. Confidential before that. Ellroy wrote or was involved in the screenplay for the movie Street Kings, starring Neo, and I liked that.
I also like more light-hearted ... Hi Crazy, here are just a few off the top of my head (and my library):
LA Confidential by James Ellroy - an excellent movie, but a book that has to read.
1984 by George Orwell - a really quite good version of a classic book.
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - disappointing ... It's *possible* I read two of my books before the year officially started -- L.A. Confidential, which I *loved*, and The Eyre Affair, both for my Mysteries category. They were the books I had with me over winter break!
I've just started The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley -- I'm ... Number 75, finally! And with just a few days to spare...
75) L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy ... . . I've read two Fossum mysteries and haven't been impressed enough to chase down more. Noir would be something like L. A. Confidential, imo (but I could be wrong here). Perhaps "Nordic Crime"? ... by Dashiell Hammett
5. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
6. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin DONE, 12/28/09
7. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy DONE, 12/26/08
8. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde DONE, 12/31/08
9. Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall S ... L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
Brighton Beach Memoirs Neil Simon
Lost in Yonkers also Neil Simon
Home to Harlem Claude McKay
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark ... girl; he certainly never listened to one talk. Despite that, the characters come alive, and the book is well-crafted. L. A. Confidential without the crime. ... does seem to polarise opinion, people either love him or hate him. Any of the LA Quartet novels (The Black Dahlia, LA Confidential, The Big Nowhere and White Jazz would be good introductions. Picking Donna Tartt's The Secret History might be pushing it a bit, I suppose, so I'll cast my vote for L.A. Confidential. No one does it better than James Ellroy.
I'd also doff my cap to The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Name of the Rose. ... Gathering Light - Jennifer Donnelly
The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
L.A. Confidential - James Ellroy
The Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory
Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
An ... L. A. Confidential by James Ellroy I recently finished He kills coppers by Jake Arnott ... it's blurbed a British L.A. Confidential and that's pretty much exactly right ... it's worth a read if you like that kind of thing. I've been, I've come back. Read Death at the President's Lodging by Michael Innes, LA Confidential by James Ellroy both of which somebody had told me had archival content but which didn't according to my (somewhat restrictive) standards. I also found A conspiracy of paper by David ... L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy is has a wonderfully complicated plot. L.A. Confidential and The Postman Always Rings Twice are two of my favorites. I haven't read The Black Dahlia, but I really enjoyed L.A. Confidential. Dark, difficult, but good. ... weekend I read James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere, finally finishing his L.A. Quartet. Took me long enough, as I started with L.A. Confidential around the time the film was released... Luckily my random reading order and long pauses did not hurt the experience.
A monstrous achievement, this ...
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