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L.A. Confidential
 

L.A. Confidential

by James Ellroy

James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential is film-noir crime fiction akin to Chinatown, Hollywood Babylon, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Jim Thompson. It's about three tortured souls in the 1950s L.A.P.D.: Ed Exley, the clean-cut cop who lives shivering in the shadow of his dad, a legendary cop in the same department; Jack Vincennes, a cop who advises a Police Squad- like TV show and busts... (read more)

Top tags: noir,  fiction,  mystery,  james ellroy,  crime (all tags)

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Eric P
  • Rated 5 stars

“Los Angels, The city of Angels, the 50’s, you can almost hear the Jazz, see the shimmering lights and the glamour, only it’s all a ruse.

Hollywood’s streets aren’t paved with gold; it’s a trick of light.

It a land where power, money, and who’s calling the shots can send the errant detectives of the LAPD off the rails, and into the darkness.

L.A. Confidential is the story of men whose motives are not always pure: they seek to sate the demons that haunt them. They...”

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Ray A
  • Rated 2 stars

“This book is just incomprehensible. I saw the movie first, and it is much much better.”

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  • Rated 4.268908 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
  

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  • Jarndyce S

    jarndyce s said:

    “The greatest mystery in script adaptation is how the hell Curtis Hanson and Bryan Helgeland saw through the obese gargantuan slop that is the novel and created a completely mesmerizing film. I actually went to the book after the movie, hoping to spend more time with Exley, Bud White and Hollywood Jack Vincennes. The fact that I actually finished reading this "messterpiece" is one of my great personal triumphs.”

    posted Saturday, October 20 2007
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