I seem to be throwing myself around the literary world of late. I swing wildly from science fiction to detective stuff to post-modern nonsense to literary fiction and...
I really never gave genre fiction a fair shake. I've read it on and off over the years, but it wasn't until the last few years that I figured out that I can't g...
I decided, after reading one too many post-modern literary books, that I'd try a new genre. That being California crime fiction. I had no idea what to expect, h...
I'm honestly not certain why authors write books under pseudonyms. I mean I kind of get it. If you want to write something as a passion project, or for fun, and...
I can't believe that an author would go through the painstaking process of writing a novel and then not put his own name on it. Granted, when you're known as a ...
The folks at Random House were nice enough to send me the second book in this trilogy, Six Bad Things. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, so I went onto ...
There's nothing like reading the first book of a trilogy after you've read the second. It's like watching the Star Wars or the Godfather series--all out of orde...
I didn't really realize this book was a sequel until I was half way through it. I didn't know it was the second in a planned trilogy until I was practically fin...
I had no expectation that this was going to be a great work of literature. I didn't think it was going to change my life, make me believe in a higher power or c...
I'm assuming Ellroy's editor was afraid to say anything to him, lest he be dragged behind James' car or garroted with a length of piano wire. This is the only p...
