Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: My first Ellroy

This was my first Ellroy that I had read when I picked him up in 1995, I loved the book then and thought it might have been the greatest crime fiction I had ever read.Rereading the novel, I am slightly less enamoured by the book, mainly due the seemingly rushed pace of the last 50 pages but it is still a brilliant piece of work and makes anything that the author has written since American Tabloid seem pretty weak.You get a great feel for the main characters (Danny, Mal and Buzz) and the mental tortures that the three of them endure throughout the book.Recommended if you have the time to immerse yourself totally in the book, it is not a novel that one can just pick up and put down and hope to pick up again a few days later as the plot is so complex and interwoven.