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The Hilliker Curse
- My Pursuit of Women
- De: James Ellroy
- Narrado por: James Ellroy
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 18
The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir - as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels - about his obsessive search for “atonement in women". The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was 10 years old. He hated and lusted after his mother and “summoned her dead". She was murdered three months later. The Hilliker Curse is a predator’s confession, a treatise on guilt and on the power of malediction, and above all, a cri de cœur.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Veering toward Vacancy
- De Darwin8u en 12-13-16
- The Hilliker Curse
- My Pursuit of Women
- De: James Ellroy
- Narrado por: James Ellroy
Horrible reading job
Revisado: 11-20-10
If you're considering this book, you're probably a fan of Ellroy, like I am. And the book is mildly interesting -- his difficulties in relating to women throughout his life. But the book is read by the author, and he's just not good at all. I've been listening to it while driving to work for three weeks, and it's all I can do to avoid driving over a bridge to end it. Ellroy has a certain rhythm in how he processes prose. Perhaps it helps him to be a genius writer. But the reading aloud -- must stop.
It's bad enough that I would advise against getting this. Just read this book in print if you're interested.
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