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Brown's Requiem
  
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Brown's Requiem (Hardcover)

de James Ellroy (Author)
3.9étoiles sur 5  Voir tous les commentaires (15 évaluations de client)

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Before he began to remap the geography of the crime novel and venture out into the darkest noir night of them all with L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, White Jazz, and American Tabloid, James Ellroy started his career with this powerful but basically straightforward book about Los Angeles private eye Fritz Brown. At first glance, the story of an investigation into a crooked golf tournament that opens up to include arson and murder could be just another work by any one of the dozens of good writers who have used Southern California as a metaphor for the decline and fall of civilization. But behind the terse prose, astute readers will soon begin to hear something else--the increasingly loud clamor of a cry of pain that will eventually become the barely manageable madness of Ellroy's later books. --Dick Adler --Ce texte provient de la Paperback édition.

-- Mystery News

"Crime, corruption, and obsessive sex...the most acclaimed noir writer of the past twenty years." --Ce texte provient de la Paperback édition.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 good, but not great, Ellroy, Déc 12 2002
This review is from: Browns Requiem (Paperback)
Ellroy's first novel is a decent PI novel that is slightly better than the usual entry, revealing little of the genius to come. A good read, no more.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Gooid Book But Edition Needs Editing!!!!, Déc 12 2001
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This review is from: Browns Requiem (Paperback)
I was captivated by Ellroy's "noir" tone, and I liked "Brown's Requiem." My only complaint about the book involves the publisher's carelessness in editing. I was frequently distracted by typographical and grammatical errors that should have been fixed before the book went to press. Good fiction enables a reader to forget that he is reading and the mistakes in text were a frequent reminder of what went into making the book. The high price tags on even the most humble of paperbacks should more than pay for greater editorial attention.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 An early Ellroy novel, quite likeable, Nov. 27 2001
Par Thomas S Roche (San Francisco CA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Browns Requiem (Paperback)
A good example of early Ellroy, enjoyable though not his best. I'd just finished reading AMERICAN TABLOID, so I missed his dead-on rendition of the '50s and '60s and all their sleazy flaws. This book is set in the '70s, and is less tightly-written than other Ellroy work, but is still a great P.I. novel and very much a pulp crime novel about a washed up alcoholic who gets involved with bizarre characters surrounding the golf caddy scene in L.A. Worth a read if you like later Ellroy.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 A lively, engrossing story
Not to use a cliche or anything, but it was a book I was not able to put down. I started reading the book at midnight, and if it weren't for my eyes, I no doubt would have read... Read more
Publié le Juil 31 2001 par S. Bowman

4.0étoiles sur 5 OPUS ONE
Published in 1981, this novel marked the beginning of the literary career of James Ellroy. A certain number of themes one will find in later novels are already present in BROWN'S... Read more
Publié le Juil 9 2001 par wdanthemanw

4.0étoiles sur 5 Ahhh, the old days...
This is pre-LA Quartet for Ellroy. Back before he found his beat-poet 'style'. Brown's Requiem, Clandestine, and Killer on the Road are just great books by a fledgling author... Read more
Publié le Mai 29 2001 par Erik J. Larsen

5.0étoiles sur 5 Great P.I. Fiction
I am not a James Ellroy fan. In fact, "Brown's Requiem" is the only novel of his that I have read, because it is the only one of his books I've found that is a straight... Read more
Publié le Fév 7 2001 par Brian D. Rubendall

2.0étoiles sur 5 Disappointing and careless.
Ellroy's first novel, and it shows. Not a bad book when compared with other writers, it's definitely below par for Ellroy. Read more
Publié le Janv. 19 2001 par Yang Shu Chuan

5.0étoiles sur 5 Ellroy's First Kicks Ass
Getting into Ellroy? Why not start at the beginning? Watch his style develop. I think folks get disappointed when they read this and other earlier works after they read "the... Read more
Publié le Déc 9 2000 par Edward C. Goodman

5.0étoiles sur 5 Brown's Requiem
This book differs from Ellroy's later work in that it pays lip service to the conventions of the private eye story. Read more
Publié le Sep 17 2000 par Joel Fritz

4.0étoiles sur 5 Little preparation for what was to come
Ellroy's first novel compares favorably to the paperback mystery novels he was, according to his memoir "My Dark Places," digesting in vast quantities prior to writing... Read more
Publié le Jui 25 2000 par Craig McDonald

3.0étoiles sur 5 solid crime novel but not his best
This was Ellroy's first published novel. It's a good, solid crime novel. It's mostly in the tradition of his predecessors like Chandler and Hammett, but some of his future... Read more
Publié le Nov. 21 1999 par Michael Toland

4.0étoiles sur 5 A good start to a brilliant career.
Only Ellroy could seamlessly weave the mystique of the golf course with a bizarre murder mystery. This first book is heavily autobiographical, using Ellroy's previous work... Read more
Publié le Aoû 24 1999

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