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I haven't read perfidia (or any of the la quartet apart from the big nowhere) but I'm going to hear ellroy talk about it on tues, will report back
Started reading the first Lloyd Hopkins book, f
― Fairly peng (wins), Sunday, 16 November 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
About halfway through Perfidia. I really think it's a terrible book. Loved the first LA Quartet; wasn't madly keen on the Underworld USA trilogy, though I thought Blood's a Rover was markedly better than the two that preceded it. But this is awful, a big saggy mess. His prose, more than ever, has descended into self parody, so much so that the characters have become indistinguishable from each other – they all talk the same, think the same, act the same, regardless of race or sex.
The only thing that's stopping me putting it aside is the flow of stories about the child sex rings involving The Great and the Good in 70s/80s London, which serve as a reminder that Ellroy's imaginings about what people use power for might be closer to the truth that one might wish.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Sunday, 16 November 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link