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American Tabloid
James Ellroy
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American Tabloid
James Ellroy
"I wanted to read American Tabloid, in large part, because I've been a large James Ellroy fan for a pretty fair amount of time. It follows, sort of, three main characters, and it goes from about the late fifties, to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. And so it takes a very large picture and then uses a few main characters, to really interplay all of these various conspiracies that are going on around the death of Kennedy, around the Bay of Pigs, various personal interests, as well as, you know, group and institutional interests around those events, and really uses good characters. It uses characters that are really either super empathetic, and you love them, or you love to hate them. What I liked most was the picture it paints of that era. I was not, obviously, even alive in the late fifties, early sixties, but it paints a picture of the way I sort of want to imagine it.
The one thing I disliked about the book, and this is my own personal thing with Ellroy, is that they end up not being the full story. Like, in fact, this is part of a three-part series, and the third hasn't been written. Without being too simplistic, I'd say that, you know, boys will really like this book. I don't want to generate and say that women wouldn't enjoy it, but in general, it's like, you know, the - good fellas. It's like all the sort of movies that guys tend to like. I would give this book four out of five stars, and that's not because I don't think it's the best of the best books, but because I, personally, have a lot of trouble giving fiction five stars, cuz fiction is very subjective."
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