{"id":1026,"date":"2011-12-21T05:52:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T11:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2011-12-20T16:16:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:16:16","slug":"book-15-of-52-white-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/book-15-of-52-white-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 15 (of 52) \u2013 White Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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White Jazz – James Ellroy<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

It was early August of 2006 and I was at the Rosemont Convention Center, attending the Wizard World Chicago comics convention.\u00a0 Kristen Bell was going to be signing autographs and taking photos with fans, and I was waiting in line.\u00a0 Needing to pass some time waiting for her to arrive, I started reading White Jazz<\/em>, the final entry of James Ellroy’s LA Quartet.\u00a0 I got about 70 pages in before Kristen arrived, and put the book in my backpack.\u00a0 Fast forward 5 years, and I finally picked the book back up.\u00a0 Those 70-odd pages were victims of the intervening years, so I had to start over.<\/div>\n

Ellroy certianly has a feel for the corrupt LAPD of the post-WWII decade.\u00a0 Here, he tells the story of Dave Klein, a vice lieutenant assigned to a case that brings together dirty cops, an Albanian crime family, Howard Hughes, and the feds.\u00a0 While an engaging tale, it does suffer from not being as good as its predecessors, The Black Dahlia<\/em> and LA Confidential<\/em>.\u00a0 Ellroy also employed a slightly different style, eliminating verbs, articles, and adjectives, which sometimes make it difficult to follow the action.\u00a0 Anyway, if you’ve enjoyed any of his work previously, you will recognize many of the characters here and will enjoy taking another trip back to the 50s LA.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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