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It was probably a bad idea to pen a sequel to American Tabloid, but James Ellroy did it anyway and came up with another great one, The Cold Six Thousand. It was probably a bad idea to add another book and make a trilogy (Underworld USA) out of it, but James Ellroy did it […]
James Ellroy’s sequel to American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, has left more than a few readers frustrated. The style is a problem for many. As Ellroy says: The style I developed for The Cold Six Thousand is a direct, shorter-rather-than-longer sentence style that’s declarative and […]
I found out a couple of weeks back that Blood’s a Rover, the final installment in James Ellroy’s Underworld USA trilogy, is coming out next month. This meant it was time to re-read American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand. When I held both volumes in my hands […] |
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