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Hollywood Hills (2010)

by Joseph Wambaugh(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

031612950X (ISBN13: 9780316129503)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Little, Brown and Company

series

Hollywood Station Series

review 1: Ok--I'm going to be in the minority and I'm ok with that. Lots of things I liked about this novel: knowing Southern California references (In N Out, SAG card) , the surfer cops flotsam and jetsam, the familiarity with LAPD police procedure. What made me decide not to finish it: lots of gratuitous profanity. Sure, I know cops swear, but they defecate too and I don't need detailed accounts of either one. Also, sorry, but the reference to Oedipal sex didn't seem exotic, it just seemed weird. So--I'll get my LA police procedurals elsewhere.
review 2: This book is the fourth in Wambaugh's Hollywood stations quartet. Though the series is still good, this book does not rise to the excellence of the first two.The series is reminiscent of a whacked out version of Hill S... moretreet Blues. But this is Hollywood; everything is screwy here.Those familiar with the series will be pleased to see recurring characters patrolmen "Hollywood" Nate, Flotsam and Jetsam are again at work, along with several new charactersThere is also a the side caper which weaves around the exploits of the patrol officers.Unfortunately this book has more proselytizing about the oversight forced upon the LAPD than I recollect from the previous entries, and the caper is almost a rehash of an earlier one from the series. That said, the caper is still entertaining. I did wonder if this caper was an homage to Donald Westlake's Dortmunder series. less

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