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The Enchanters

Yazan: James Ellroy
Seslendiren: Craig Wasson
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Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash.

The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim "Opportunity is Love." Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe's death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the faux-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe's horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that he served to create - and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness.

It's the Summer of '62, baby. Freddy O.'s got a hot date with history. The savage Sixties are ready to pop. The Rolling Stones proclaim it best: We're just a shout away.

The Enchanters is a transcendent work of American popular fiction. It is James Ellroy at his most crazed, brilliant, provocative, profanely hilarious, and stop-your-heart tender. It is a luminous psychological drama. It is an unparalleled thrill ride. It is resoundingly the great American crime novel.

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Epic mashups of historical fact and filthy fantasy . . . no one does it better than Ellroy
This entire book is one gleefully violent foul-mouthed research note. It’s vivid, gripping, surreal
No one captures the nightmare that lies behind the American dream better than the unforgettable Ellroy . . . This is the master of darkness at his incomparable best — simply impossible to put down
Nobody does crime like James Ellroy . . . One of Ellroy's best works in years (Dan Jones)
One of the great American writers of our time
Ask me to name the best living novelist who's fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted, and paranoid . . . and it becomes simple: James Ellroy. If insanity illuminated by highly dangerous strokes of literary lightning is your thing, then Ellroy is your man (Stephen King)
James Ellroy is the American Dostoyevsky (Joyce Carol Oates)
Truly invigorating . . . demonically riveting (Jake Kerridge)
Highly entertaining
Electrifying
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James Ellroy is the self-described ‘demon dog’ of crime fiction. Here, he plunges headlong into conspiracy theories surrounding the demise of Marilyn Monroe. Real-life figures abound – or caricatures of them – including the Kennedy brothers, and crooked union boss Jimmy Hoffa. The first-person narrator is Freddy Otash. He’s bugging Marilyn on behalf of Hoffa. Then he’s enlisted to create a smokescreen to keep Jack and Bobby out of the picture – both were reportedly her lovers. There’s also a subplot about what appears to be the kidnap of a B-list movie actress, Gwen Perloff. Ellroy is on familiar ground. He deployed rapid-fire prose and obscure cop abbreviations and vocabulary to devastating effect in American Tabloid, which looked at JFK’s assassination. In The Enchanters, Ellroy plays the same trick, with Marilyn’s tragic story as the backdrop. Does it work? To some extent, yes. It feels like a return to form. For the most part, the elaborate plot is beyond bamboozling. A reasonably helpful dramatis personae and glossary are at the end – they don’t help the listener much. At any given moment, I grasped a fraction of what was going on. But somehow that was enough. Private eye Otash’s intensive surveillance of Marilyn is close to obsessive – although Otash isn’t a fan, insisting that he refuses to buy into her allure. He unpicks layers of mythology around Marilyn in a fever dream of a narrative that requires total concentration (though even if you never lose focus, it’s still confusing). The novel promises more than it delivers in terms of Marilyn’s own story. The conclusions reached are opaque, or plain barmy. It is far more concerned with Otash himself, and the large cast of subsidiary characters in seedy L.A. Fact and fiction merge in an extraordinarily dark tale. It is a long listen and at times a bit of a slog which could have benefited from more rigorous editing. Its strongest attribute is the high-quality narration. This is my first audiobook Ellroy - and I approached it with caution. I am undecided about whether reading it in hard copy would have helped my understanding of what on earth it was all about. I think the answer is ‘maybe’. But I’m glad I listened as the narrator brought the story to life – it was a fantastically demanding job, and he carried it out with aplomb. New listeners should probably start with The Black Dahlia – the opener of Ellroy’s LA Confidential series – or American Tabloid. For my money, The Enchanters is a kind of impressive cover version of American Tabloid – but never quite reaches or surpasses Tabloid’s high standards. But Ellroy fans will enjoy it more than they imagined they would (many were disappointed with Otash’s last outing in Widespread Panic, published in 2021. I haven’t read it – and the reviews are far from promising). It’s another desperate dash through a demonic demi-monde - where Ellroy is the undisputed overlord.

Overlord of the demi-monde

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No writer, living or dead, captures Ellroy's panorama of the underbelly of US law, crime and politics of the 20th century.

Ellroy's brilliance is not for the squeamish!

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I’m six hours into this book, and I neither know nor care what it is about. I cannot understand the jargon, and I have zero interest in attempting to. It is simply awful.

Even Craig Wasson cannot save this book, and once you have said that, you’ve said it all.

Good narrator, awful prose!

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L.A Confidential and The Black Daliah are my favourite Ellroy books to date. I believe I'm a reasonably intelligent woman, but the jive talking jargon in this book felt like I was listening to a foreign language! I get it's retro 60's style is needed, but definitely not to the level used here. I'm British so a lot of the American slang is lost on me. Some words you can decipher in the context of the conversation, but some not so I feel like I'm missing a lot of the story here. I'm trying not to be disappointed with this title and power through, but I'm definitely not having an enjoyable, relaxing listening experience that I've had with previous audiobooks. If this book was written by any other author I would have dipped out by chapter four! 😒

The language of this book needs serious updating!

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