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A La Caza De La Mujer (2011)

by James Ellroy(Favorite Author)

3.14 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Mondadori

review 1: I love memoirs, and I used to love Ellroy. If this wasn't written by him it would not have gotten published, and I would not have read it. When he is straight forward telling the stories of the loves in his life (and infatuations) the story hooked me in. But then he starts talking about Her and She and US and Them and The Curse - and Beethoven (well, he just kind of drops the name a lot, never really explaining why or what he loves about the music so much). Ellroy is a auto-didactic mystery writer. This memoir screams out that he wants to be taken as a Serious Writer with Serious Ideas. It doesn't close the sale. For as much as I enjoyed parts of it, most of it had me screaming to myself, "Is this shitty little 203 page memoir done yet? Can I put it on the Goodwi... morell pile yet?????" Published in 2010, here's betting that the last woman/She/Her/Them or the book, Erika, hasn't lasted either. Do yourself a favor and go back and read The LA Quartet and his books before those, and leave this on the B&N overstock table........
review 2: People always assume I like James Ellroy, because I’m a noir buff, have a lot of his books, and share to some extent his infatuation with Anne Sofie von Otter and pulp (while reading ‘The Hilliker Curse’, I found out that he is a fellow Spillane fan -though I think my appreciation is more tongue-in-cheek than his). The thing is, I read him mostly because Ellroy became a style benchmark for modern noir, but I must confess that his writing annoys me a bit, and what works reasonably well for crime novels is more grating in a memoir. Reading him now out of the noir context, I at last found out why: his diction is too breathless, and his word choices frequently take his writing from funky pulp alliteration to self-indulgent Beat pseudo-philosophy/mysticism, or sumthin’. So. less

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