Brown's Requim by James Ellroy

[NYLee]

I am a critic of most of the mistery writing (it doesn't deserve be called literature) because I really like the genre. I am a Ellroy fan myself and believe that he trascends the genre. He searchs (or found) in crime some profound wounds of humankind. Crime by itself talks about the dark side of human behavior and how passions pass the line that society creates. Crime talks of the psychology of the times and the places.

Brown's Requiem is Ellroy first novel, and he develops the classic P.I. character and the classic mistery plot, but the language is vivid and you can feel that Ellroy knows about what he is talking about. It is not a loussy research made by internet or on a library, what I feel when reading some paperback. Complex and weird characters, the forgotten and forbbiden, appears on all the novel. The detective goes crazy for classic music, the spothlight on the caddies as some outlaws, junkies, drunkards, criminals empty souls.

Like all the Ellroy that I had read, is fast and full of rage, bloody tasted, smoggy, and shows that real L.A. that only somebody suffering there could know.