Los Angeles is a wonderfully complex urban environment that has a lot to offer a storyteller and a reader/viewer. I also don't like things that make the darker elements of the city look like a post-apocalyptic wasteland. I don't like things that make Los Angeles look too glitzy, or that overlook the dark sides of the city. Those of you who listen to my online radio show probably know that when I read or watch something that takes place in Los Angeles, I really want it feel like it takes place in the city where I live.
Thankfully this book falls into the first category ( noir) and takes place in one of my favorite noir cities, Los Angeles. They are either extraordinarily noir like a James Ellroy novel, science fiction/fantasy related like Steven Brust's Jhereg books, or "literary" like The Moonstone.
When I do read a mystery it tends to fall into one of three categories. I don't read a lot of "straight" mystery stories.
If my reading patterns were hiking trails, the genre hiking trail containing Casanegrafor would be fairly overgrown from lack of passage. I have been a fan of Blair Underwood as an actor, and Steven Barnes as a writer, for some time, which is why I have picked up a book that is outside my routine. Last night I began reading Casanegra by Blair Underwood (with Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes), in preparation for an event at the Glendora Library this weekend.
0 kommentar(er)
