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@179AAP893 @indaclubpenguin still, if you can push past the other books, White Jazz I think might have the best rhythm of any of JE's work (it's aptly named!) and the first-person psychological unraveling that goes on is really unique to that book.

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@179AAP893 @indaclubpenguin I think White Jazz is right up there with Tabloid and Cold Six, but you do have to read Big Nowhere and LA Confidential for the full character impact, which I agree were outclassed by the Underworld USA books.

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@179AAP893 big agree, I think they have an interesting relationship to each other, with Cold Six pushing the general pace/style/cruelty to such extremes that it becomes an auto-critique of the whole Ellroy schtick. Love em both!

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@Dok845 100% with you. I was thinking about it the other day while reading some of David Graeber's Debt, where he touches on the incredibly awful shit the IMF had been doing. the film is the best depiction of everyday, modern evil I've seen.

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@bidenbigboi @179AAP893 I have a copy of Antwerp but haven't cracked it... the cover of my edition is of course irresistible to a 2666 fan but I've never confirmed that it's actually related

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@bidenbigboi @179AAP893 SD is such fun, I'm due for a reread -- I highly recommend By Night in Chile, it gets at some of the same themes as 2666 but it's nice and short.

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@LittleEdy_Comic I'm so happy Edy's back. It's the funniest comic I've read in years :)

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@179AAP893 100%. There's a really good coda to this in Blood's a Rover if you get to it. You gotta love how much Ellroy cares about his most evil characters.

[Yesterday's Print @yesterdaysprint]

Harrisburg Daily Independent. Pennsylvania, June 17, 1909

[AD.ART @ADegenart]

Kansas sugar ape drawn for @troughofluxury

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@Futurhythm Thank you!

[Dok @Dok845]

This is how he would want to be remembered

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@reeesh24 ah wonderful! it reads like a very pithy intro to an overview of psychoanalysis for invested layfolk like myself.
had me intrigued for more :)

[pHiycrtyl @iycrtylph]

psychoanalytic thinkers rightly point out that life will always be unhappy, but we deserve higher forms of unhappiness than we have today

[Honore Daumier @artistdaumier]

Family on the Barricades, 1848 #honoredaumier #realism https://t.co/441AZuNAPg

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@thewastedworld do you have a rec for reading on the impact of augustine's thought? I really have difficulty figuring what aspects of his theology I end up porting backwards