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Original Title:	My Dark Places
ISBN:	0517288990 (ISBN13: 9780517288993)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Deutscher Krimi Preis for 3. Platz International (1998)

My Dark Places

James Ellroy

Hardcover | Pages: 427 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 5948 Users | 425 Reviews

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Title	:	My Dark Places
Author	:	James Ellroy
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 427 pages
Published	:	November 5th 1996 by Random House Value Publishing
Categories	:	Crime. True Crime. Nonfiction. Mystery. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography

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From the author of L.A. Confidential comes My Dark Places, an investigative autobiography by James Ellroy. In 1958, Ellroy's mother, Jean, was raped, killed, and dumped off a road in El Monte, California, a rundown L.A. suburb. The killer was never found, and the case was closed. It was a sordid, back-page homicide that no one remembered. Except her son.

James Ellroy was ten years old when his mother died. His bereavement was complex and ambiguous: "I cried. I cranked tears out all the way to L.A. I hated her. I hated El Monte. Some unknown killer just bought me a brand-new beautiful life." He grew up obsessed with murdered women and crime. He ran from his mother's ghost.

Ellroy became a writer of radically provocative and bestselling crime novels. "I wear obsession well," he says. "I've turned it into something." He tried to reclaim his mother through fiction. It didn't work. He quit running and wrote this memoir.

My Dark Places is Jean and James Ellroy's story—from 1958 to all points past and up to this moment. It is the story of a brilliant homicide detective named Bill Stoner and of the investigation he and Ellroy undertook. It is also an unflinching autobiography with vivid reportage. This is James Ellroy's journey through his most forbidding memories.

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At some time between 35 and 40 I started on this downward (?) spiral of crime shows. I was never one to really watch them and couldnt understand the appeal, but after my fourth child I caught a Law and Order marathon and was hooked. It moved on from there as did the spin offs and then came CSI and all its iterations and then Criminal Minds and oh hell, Dexter love that guy. It got to the point that my children would get that Dr. Phil look and ask me why I watched these shows. I really dont know.

Because there is no secret what this book is about, I didnt feel the need to mark it as containing spoilers. If, however, you are coming at this book cold, and dont know the well-publicized story of Ellroys dark past, you might want to skip this review.While I loved the film adaptation of Ellroys L.A. Confidential, I must confess that he isnt a favorite of mine. But I am aware of his work and have read enough to know hes certainly got something, even if it isn't my cup of tea. In essence, this

Not only DNF, but I want to personally travel the world to projectile vomit on every extant copy of this disgusting piece of creepy misogynist trash.

Kill. Me. Now. Mr Ellroy, here's a tip. You aren't paid by the word. I don't have to read the same thing over and over and over again, nor do I want to. And you also don't have to tell everything that comes into your head. Some of your thoughts on your mother made me nauseous. The only reason this got two stars is because I finished it. Only books I stop reading get 1 star. Oh and here's the best part - you still don't know who killed her!!! Thanks for robbing me of three weeks.



I love this goddamn book, and I love James Ellroy. Reading this made me remember why I liked his books so much when I read them years ago, but this is much better than his fiction. Still, I think having read some of his other stuff definitely helped me appreciate this more.Ellroy really gets it. He gets so many things that most people don't: Ellroy gets misogyny. He gets bigotry and racism. Ellroy gets brutality and violence. He gets crime. He gets sexuality, he gets desire, he gets pain. He

Not for me at this timeRead By: Michael PrichardTotal Duration: 14:52:32blurbs - From the author of L.A. Confidential comes My Dark Places, an investigative autobiography by James Ellroy. In 1958, Ellroy's mother, Jean, was raped, killed, and dumped off a road in El Monte, California, a rundown L.A. suburb. The killer was never found, and the case was closed. It was a sordid, back-page homicide that no one remembered. Except her son.James Ellroy was ten years old when his mother died. His