L.A. Confidential

I've always liked LA Confidential the movie. The book has all the elements in them that are portrayed in the movie but the movie is much better organized and a more straightforward story - for better or worse, depending on what you like. The book tends to ramble and assemble a narrative and then pull it apart - which is one of the key features of the movie as well. Its just a little too much of a good thing for me in the book. I think the screenwriter did a superb job in getting the essence of the novel's approach. This novel is probably the best that I've read from James Ellroy. Rambling and at times incoherent but the story surges forward to a great - and quite different - ending than the movie.