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To paraphrase Winston Churchill, America is a lie, wrapped up in a deception, inside a thin shell of morality. And James Ellroy keeps taping that shell, testing for weak-points and showing us it is hollow. Do you have the stomach to see what they have been feeding us all this time?

DIG IT: any bootlegger's son can become the President - assassination will automatically activate sanctification. Organized crime does not exist - but that never stopped it from running the country. And elections are not easy to fix - but in any case easier to fix than the World Series.
DOCUMENT INSERT: the most powerful man fighting Communism is a cross-dressing director with a wiretap fetish - morality standards and irony galore. Dominican Republic is the new location-location-location for blackjack-tables and chorus-line girls - if el Jefe can voodoo-hex the slaves from revolting. And Tricky Dick's price is 5 million - uncontrolled scatology at no extra charge.
CAREFUL NOW: infiltrate means collaborate; collaborate means condone; condone means finance; finance means plan; plan means precipitate - at which point did the investigation turn into instigation?

This is the third installment of the American-Underbelly trilogy (the masterpiece American Tabloid being the first and the excellent The Cold Six Thousand being the second). One does not necessarily have to read them in succession - but it surely helps. This is not an easy read, the story will serpent back and eat any one of its multiple tails, more than once. A second reading is recommended. And it will up the pixel-count of the images projected. In CinemaScope and Technicolor.

As the trilogy goes, this is the weakest of the three books, mostly because Ellroy hesitated in taking up major players with his brush painting the picture. Hoover and Nixon make cameo appearances - and sprinkles cannot be as filling as a square meal. I also missed the cool tabloid excerpts. The story is dark enough, some direct humor (even of the hush-hush kind) could be used.
Other than that, expect the familiar hard-boiled noir story. Where men are complicated and cruel yet witty and dames are desirable and decisive yet in constant distress. And no one is innocent.

There be time enough to sleep. For now, let James tell you (almost) everything.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!


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Blood A Rover James Ellroy 9780099537793 Books Reviews

James Ellroy shows he is past his use by date. This book is just one too many from the master of "LA Confidential"
It feels tired, repetitive and way too long.
I am a huge Ellroy Fan. In fact, I've been lucky enough to have him write me back in a personal message on F-book to tell me to "Go F yourself. B.A.R. is my masterpiece. F you if you didn't like it.", after trying to ask him a legitimate question about being an aging writer/creative artist.
Other people have reviewed the story here, so I'm not going to rehash it. I'm merely going to give my advice to those who want to know whether or not this book is worth their time. If you are as big an Ellroy fan as I am, of course, you have to read it. You will immediately feel at home with his rat-a-tat-tat style of verbiage. The thing is, this story while ultimately satisfying in comparison to many other mysteries I've read this year, is simply not Ellroys best. I found older tomes like "The Big Nowhere" and "L.A. Confidential" to be more to my liking. They were fill bodied stories and you had reason to care more or find interest in the characters for some reason. I'm not sure if those years were simply more interesting to me, or if I've had enough of this clipped style of writing I enjoyed so much in "White Jazz", but I simply felt this book sked for too much of my time as a reader to give it a higher rating. The payoff is just not there. Sure I feel comfortable ensconsed in the "Ellroyian World", but I just read "Ticket To Ride" by his ex-wife and I enjoyed that more than I enjoyed this.
Some of the historical characters that used to seem "inside" and entertaining only come across as cartoonish here. Fine, we know J Edgar Hoover was into women's clothing. Do we need to hear about this proclivity on every page? Do we need to know every pill each character popped? I felt like saying out loud, "So get on with the story, wi;; ya?!" Although who the hero turns out to be is a small surprise, and there is a build up towards the end, I'm just so used to being wowed by his past books that this book is a bit of a letdown.

Ellroy has always been into procedure. And he made you wade through the protagonist's entire investigation which was fine. He somehow kept the story moving. But in this book it just seemed to drag on and on. I would stay up late reading his other books in 2-3 days. This one took me 3-4 months to slog through.
So basically, if you have not read any of his books yet, please go back and read one of the above, or "Black Dahlia", basically anything from "The L.A. Quartet." If you enjoy those as much as I did, you can come back and read this. But it is not a book to start with or worth reading on its own if you only want to read one Ellroy book to get his best flavor or his finest writing.
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Ellroy is not for everyone. Very dark, very pessimistic, very violent. But if that sounds like you, Ellroy is your man. Aside from anything else, he is an astonishing stylist. His "telegraph" style makes Hemingway look like Proust.
I can't think of anything bad to say about Blood's A Rover, and I can't write down everything good about it because there's not enough space, and anyway I'm not a writer. But it's a knockout. Imagine American Tabloid with vastly more interesting characters (even the returning ones are more interesting) written as a collaboration with David Lynch, the whole thing going down a road you didn't even know was there, and that's Blood's A Rover. Can't recommend it more highly.
If you are a fan of Ellroy then you'll likely find this book a worthwhile read. It's a mere shadow of the former works in the series, though. And much of the plot just feels hackneyed and forced. In fact, the convenient final wrap up right at the end is just plain bad. Does it ever bother you when you're watching a movie or a show and the characters engage in some massively artificial dialogue where the sole purpose is heavy-handidly conveying to you, the viewer, a bunch of key facts? It's almost a deus ex machina speech, right? Yeah, lots of that here.

The continuation of some character stories from previous works may draw you in but I suspect that the plot and overall writing will likely disappoint. But it's still a crime thriller built on historical realities of the mid-20th century. So think of it as a big, Summer, popcorn movie. Lots of splash, little substance, worth watching, not worth re-watching. Enjoy your beach read.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, America is a lie, wrapped up in a deception, inside a thin shell of morality. And James Ellroy keeps taping that shell, testing for weak-points and showing us it is hollow. Do you have the stomach to see what they have been feeding us all this time?

DIG IT any bootlegger's son can become the President - assassination will automatically activate sanctification. Organized crime does not exist - but that never stopped it from running the country. And elections are not easy to fix - but in any case easier to fix than the World Series.
DOCUMENT INSERT the most powerful man fighting Communism is a cross-dressing director with a wiretap fetish - morality standards and irony galore. Dominican Republic is the new location-location-location for blackjack-tables and chorus-line girls - if el Jefe can voodoo-hex the slaves from revolting. And Tricky Dick's price is 5 million - uncontrolled scatology at no extra charge.
CAREFUL NOW infiltrate means collaborate; collaborate means condone; condone means finance; finance means plan; plan means precipitate - at which point did the investigation turn into instigation?

This is the third installment of the American-Underbelly trilogy (the masterpiece American Tabloid being the first and the excellent The Cold Six Thousand being the second). One does not necessarily have to read them in succession - but it surely helps. This is not an easy read, the story will serpent back and eat any one of its multiple tails, more than once. A second reading is recommended. And it will up the pixel-count of the images projected. In CinemaScope and Technicolor.

As the trilogy goes, this is the weakest of the three books, mostly because Ellroy hesitated in taking up major players with his brush painting the picture. Hoover and Nixon make cameo appearances - and sprinkles cannot be as filling as a square meal. I also missed the cool tabloid excerpts. The story is dark enough, some direct humor (even of the hush-hush kind) could be used.
Other than that, expect the familiar hard-boiled noir story. Where men are complicated and cruel yet witty and dames are desirable and decisive yet in constant distress. And no one is innocent.

There be time enough to sleep. For now, let James tell you (almost) everything.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!