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Title: Clandestine by James Ellroy ISBN: 0-380-80529-4 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.87 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of my favorites....
Comment: One of my favorites of all of Ellroy's novels. It's an earlier work, but the book is extremely solid. I believe this is the first time we are introduced to The Victory Motel, Dudley Smith, and his groupies. Very entertaining. Some parts are almost gut-wrenching in their humanity. Much of the book is bittersweet. If you are a fan of Ellroy's better known works like LA Confidential and The Black Dahlia -- Clandestine will not disappoint...
Rating: 4
Summary: A Master Finding His Voice
Comment: One of James Ellroy's first efforts, CLANDESTINE showcases a writing voice not yet matured into the staccato hipster prose of his L.A. quartet or the historical fiction of American Tabloid/The Cold Six Thousand.
That said, it's still a great read (though the romantic sequences between Underhill and Lorna are a bit clunky). The last fifty pages are classic, non-stop page turners. The interrogation scenes with Dudley Smith, Underhill and Eddie Engels are Ellroy-esque and brutal, yet they lack the wit and cold intelligence of the interrogation scenes from L.A. Confidential. Lt. Dudley Smith is a monster, but not quite the cold, calculating beast he becomes in Ellroy's later masterpieces.
For those not acquainted with the earlier works of James Ellroy, this one's a must. As I read this book, I could definitely see stronger beginnings of the voice that now makes Ellroy one of the world's very best.
Rating: 1
Summary: Do you know what's wrong with that reader's voice ?
Comment: Most of the James Ellroy's cops are mean, tough, cunning, crooked, dirty low lives. So the Reader's voice that was chosen to be as the 1st person in the book, starting all the sentences with an "I", playing himself as the dirty cop, that should be sound like a cop, a tough, mean, foxy guy with a tough, cold, heartless voice. To my deepest regret with a funny feeling, the voice of Mr. Jermy Gage is a total joke. His voice is so thin, so narrow, so shallow and so scholastically wrong. His voice is not a cop's voice in the least but a voice with pipe and eye glasses, a voice coming from the mouth of 150 pounds body weight, in short, a chicken's voice. I just couldn't keep listening to that funny voice which was definitely not a believable cop's voice. After trying so hard listened to that voice for 25 minutes, I just turned the recorder off and picked up the real book and just let my own inner voice to become that "I", that dirty, mean, tough, cunning cop, and survived page after page. Don't try to make the same fault as I did, it'd ruin your free and more realistic imagination.
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Title: Brown's Requiem by James Ellroy ISBN: 0380731770 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Killer on the Road by James Ellroy ISBN: 038080896X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 08 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy ISBN: 0446674370 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy ISBN: 0446674362 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: The Cold Six Thousand : A Novel by James Ellroy ISBN: 037572740X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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