I did find the first few chapters hard going but as soon as I started the chapters about Ellroy's childhood I was woven into his intricate web of words and trapped until the end. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. James Ellroy has the guts to share his very dark places, including a youthful obsession with grisly sex murders that he forged into a career as a crime writer. In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. Please try again. Spoiler warnings, though I think everyone know reads this already knows the story. Her dress was disheveled. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. I read a lot of books, many of them memoirs and biographies. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy, Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, James Ellroy's trademark is his language: it is sometimes caustically funny and always brazen. is available now and can be read on any device with the free Kindle app. First trade edition. My Dark Places is unflinching autobiography and vivid reportage. This killing, later called the Black Dahlia case, had some similarities to Jean Ellroy's murder. My dark places. The book then segues into memoir, exploring the formative effect of his mothers death on Ellroys life - he was 10 at the time - as he went off the rails, and became an alcoholic, rough-sleeping shoplifter and burglar, before turning his life around and becoming a veteran author of crime fiction. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2018. Television Personalities. Ellroy shies away from absolutely nothing in the course of sharing his life story: his budding sexuality (which included experimentation with same-sex friends), his time as a drug addict and petty criminal, his ploy to escape the U.S army, and the fact that he is an avid true crime fan. It stars Charlize Theron, Christina Hendricks, Nicholas Hoult, and Chlo Grace Moretz. (, This page was last edited on 9 October 2019, at 03:50. In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. Signed, limited edition. In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. 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