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The Cold Six Thousand

A Novel (Vintage)

By James Ellroy

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| Paperback | 9780375727405

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In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches the shrapnel fly. On November 22, 1963 three men converge in Dallas. Their job: to clean up the JFK hit’s loose ends and inconvenient witnesses. They are Wayne Continue

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Powders, treason and plots

The Cold Six Thousand James Ellroy Century £16.99, pp692 Buy it at a discount at BOL For a man often heard deploring the vacuous clichés of modern cinema, James Ellroy writes a worryingly inevitable sequel. In his previous novel, 1995's American Tabl ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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The Cold Six Thousand James Ellroy 711pp, Century, £16.99 Buy it at a discount at BOL Over 700 pages of stripped-down prose, repetitive riffs coming at you in sentences of threes, and the same incantatory rhythm throughout; minus adjectives for the m ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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Finally got around to reading The Cold Six Thousand nearly 8 years after reading American Tabloid. Spend the first 50 pages trying to remember the details from the previous novel.
James Ellroy's hyper-concise style is even more pronounced here than in American Tabloid or White Jazz and will probabl ... (continue)

Finally got around to reading The Cold Six Thousand nearly 8 years after reading American Tabloid. Spend the first 50 pages trying to remember the details from the previous novel.
James Ellroy's hyper-concise style is even more pronounced here than in American Tabloid or White Jazz and will probably bother some readers (my mum found it unreadable). I think the style matches the subject and didn't find it too much of a nuisance.
Overall, I liked American Tabloid better. Think the subject here is less interesting; surely the assassination of JFK beats that off Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy from a pure gossip point of view. The novel possesses less of a narrative drive than American Tabloid, so it slightly less of a page turner. Mind you, this is still a good read, just not as engrossing as American Tabloid.

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