FOREST CITY GEAR

PRODUCTS ON ACTUATORS

OF NEW GENERATION MARS ROVER

Roscoe, IL-Forest City Gear announced today it has successfully completed its supply of approximately 60 space-qualified gear components, housings and carriers to Aeroflex (Hauppauge, NY), a major contractor on the newest Mars Rover vehicle for the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL).  The Mars Science Laboratory mission is scheduled for launch in late 2011 and will determine whether Mars was or still might be an environment capable of sustaining microbial life and thus be inhabitable.  On this vehicle, Forest City Gear products execute mechanical motions on the actuators onboard, including drive gears, gearboxes, planetary gears and wheel assemblies.  Various spur, helical and spline gear types were furnished on this project.

Forest City Gear, owing to its unique arsenal of gearmaking machines and inspection equipment, was chosen to finish, hob and shape various gear designs for Aeroflex and also to form gear grind, using dozens of CBN wheels made specifically for this project.  Gears for the Rover project typically had diameters ranging from under 1/4” up to 4-1/2” and featured fine surface finishes on gears to 96 pitch.  Per part, the production required ranged from several pieces to a “large” run of 100 pieces.  For a number of the components, Aeroflex outsourced the blanking to its vendors, some of the top machine shops and metal fabricators in the country, with Forest City Gear then cutting the gears and/or grinding into the blanks.  Forest City Gear also made many of the gears complete, per prints supplied by Aeroflex.

On many of the parts, noted the Production Manager at Forest City Gear, Jared Lyford, the profile cornering and tip relief were particularly challenging, especially on some of the various alloy materials used for this project, where performance and weight factors also held top priority.

Of particular note is a three-tiered internally geared carrier, machined from bar stock of an advanced engineered alloy with properties similar to titanium, but better able to hold the fine pitch and undercut gear design (as shown in the attached photo).  This material also remained more stable during heat treating and predictable in the precise machining and undercutting required.  It actually shrinks, not expands, during heat treating, but in a statistically predictable manner.  This particular component is used in a drive assembly on the Rover.

Another of the unique gears used on the previous generation of Rover vehicles was a heat-treated 17-4 stainless steel tether line ring gear with a wall thickness only 0.150”.

Fred Young, CEO of Forest City Gear, commented on the successes his company achieved on this project.  “Our relationship with this project began with a modest order from another vendor for some small gears on the first generation Rover wheel drives.  The shaping of the high crown design was a problem for the customer’s previous suppliers, who couldn’t get a cutter with enough back-off to successfully cut the crown shape.  The crown hobbing had a shorter relief and a different cycle was needed at the back edge.”

Confronted with this issue, Young suggested a design modification to accommodate the crown hobbing by shortening the spline face width, widening the relief groove voids and making the acquisition of a smaller diameter hob than could be typically manufactured.  These suggestions were quickly accepted by the customer and parts were delivered in short order, with the added benefit of a weight reduction that translated into thousands of dollars per ounce on the final payload.

A similar situation arose on the second Rover’s gears.  The customer, Aeroflex, came to Forest City Gear for a spec check on their gear supplier’s work and, upon seeing the out-of-tolerance data provided by Fred Young’s quality department, gave them the order on the spot.

Since the manufacturing protocol mandated by Aeroflex for this project at Forest City Gear required 100% inspection on every dimension of every part made, the supplier devised its own software programs to facilitate easier processing of the massive data files.  Aeroflex has found this documentation to be very helpful in its own quality assurance programs at its customer, JPL.

Forest City Gear provided assorted components for the previous generations of Mars Rover vehicles and, on this newest project, worked closely with an Aeroflex team led by Boz Sharif, chief engineer, Doug Ward, materials expediter and Rich Finucane, program manager.  Additionally, during the manufacturing stages, JPL engineer David Rooney visited Forest City Gear several times to work with this supplier on the various products being supplied to Aeroflex.

For more information on this announcement, please contact:

FOREST CITY GEAR CO., INC. Web:  www.forestcitygear.com Everett Hawkins, Director of Sales

Mars Rover vehicles have been on the Red Planet since January, 2004, sending back a non-stop data stream.  Forest City Gear products are used on the Rover wheel drives and deployment actuators.

Forest City Gear produced this three-tiered actuator mechanism, featuring layers of internal gears made from an advanced engineered alloy material that was found to perform more predictably after heat treating, especially in gearcutting and gear grinding operations.

The newest generation Rover, the Mars Science Laboratory, will be twice as long, four times the overall size and ten times the weight of the previous Rovers.  It will be lowered to the surface of the Red Planet by a tether mechanism, similar to a sky crane.  The use life on that device will be approximately seven seconds.

Isometric wheel assemblies on the Rover, including gear sections produced by Forest City Gear to its customer’s design specifications.

PR agency contact: Tim Daro Bernard & Company 847-934-4500 tdaro@bernardandcompany.com

Release:  FOREST CITY GEAR CO., INC.

Date:  October 21, 2009

This story seemed bad enough in the beginning-

But according to Wired’s Danger Room, it wasn’t just drone feeds that could be intercepted.  Any video feed from U.S. aircraft, manned or unmanned, was easily viewed as long as the insurgents had purchased a $26 piece of software.  26 dollars, for Christ’s sake, I just bought a PS3 video game that costs me 60 bucks.

Tell me again, how much do we spend a year on the Defense Department?  Oh, only a half a trillion or so, it that all.  Will this be an easy thing to fix?  It looks as if that answer is no, but that hardly seems like an excuse to just let it slide.

Car’s, car’s are fantastic! I love them.  I’m not the sort of petrol head who has he head under the bonnet, apart from one car… more about that in a bit.  But I do enjoy a good car, and a good car to drive.  I love the fun of driving, hearing the engine roaring as you accelerate past the granddad in the Rover 200 going 60mph on the dual carridge way.
I love the way they look, the way they feel, and the way they sound.

I passed my driving test January 7th 2004, I was at college at the time, well, technically I was at home as I was still on christmas holidays.  But college is a time of adventure, and excitement, you go to a classroom in normal clothes! NORMAL CLOTHES! and passing that driving test is a big deal, it automatically makes you want to drive everywhere.  I often followed the bus to college, then drove around for 10minuets trying to find a space, but I didn’t care, because I had a car, and those losers on the “pikey waggon” were jealous because I didnt have to pick up screaming kids… with their babies in push-chairs.  It took me three attempts to pass, but I was proud to say that following my stupid mistakes on the first two attempts, I had 2 minor faults on my third and final test.  Anyway, onto cars…

The First – 1986 Nissan Micra (aka scrap on wheels)

However much I loved having my car, this was by a long shot, not my first choice. “We will buy your first car Antony” I believe was what my parents said.
had I known it was going to be a Micra, I maybe would have saved some money and bought that DB9 I had my eye on.  Ungreatfulness aside, it was a car, it was        transport and it was mine, independence finally!.  What I had noticed though was my sister had it before me, and then my mum before her, and a random uncle from Australia bought it as a run about when he was over here for a month.  Anyway, it was a 900cc engine, light and agile as I proved when I took it to savenake forest and somehow did a few doughnuts in it… on the wet grass and with sheer terror in my eyes and my mates inside not sure whether to laugh or cry.
This particular car I had for about 2years, I remember driving to my first proper job in it, in shirt and tie, in what can only be described as scrap metal with wheels.  I got that job, and due to difficult parking by stupid mothers watching their childrens school play they half blocked me in the carpark, me, being tired on a Friday, got fed up and just squeezed on through, I heard a crunch, an almighty crunch.  I shit my pants.  I looked out, no damage on the stupid mother parker’s car… didnt notice anything on my car either, I smiled, and drove home.  My folks were out shopping, they came in and said “Antony, why is there a gigantic dent in your car?” “hmm” I thought outloud, whilst inside my head was saying “shitty shit shitterson!” “I dont know, what side is it on?” “Passenger side” “That bloody ass! there was someone parked right close to my car, they must’ve dented it as they got out or somthing”.  To this day I’ve not told them, I just hope they dont read this blog.

This car met its end however, driving it to Bristol Zoo as I’d never been down the M4 with some friends, I forgot it was a 900cc and felt embarrassed when I was overtaken by a lorry… I went a little to fast for the rev-counter popped the head-gasket and she laid in a bed of smoke, shortly followed by a heap of scrap metal whilst I pocketed £20 for selling it to the scrappy.  May she rest in peace.

The Project – 1972 MG B GT (aka Passion wagon)

This was, is, and always will be my baby.  My dad restored a 1971 MG Midget, he joined an MG  Club, I went with him to shows, I saw my first ever MG B GT at the age of 12 and from that day I said “I will have one of those, I will”.  Surely enough, at the age of 17, I got one, I finally got one.  For a bargain of a price too, FREE! yes, thats right, I got my 1972 tax-exempt 1.8ltr MG B GT for free.  It needed work, a lot of work, I’d say in-total I spent about £2000 on it, which isn’t much considering what was done, countless man hours from myself and my dad, shivering in the garage with only a welder for heat, and cups of tea being made and turning ice-cold the moment they went through the garage door threshold.  However, throughout my learning to drive, she was slowly getting to be ready, ready for her debut.  I couldn’t wait.  Then, one day, as I pulled up from college my dad was just putting the petrol cap on and handed me the keys… “Give it a go” he said… From sticking that long skinny key, into her ignition for the first time I remember it clear as day… *cahchunk, cahchunk* “Give it some gas!” my dad yelled over the noise … *VAAAAHHHHRooooooooooom!!!* she sounded a treat, such a nice meaty sound, the sort of sound that would put fear into the hearts of vikings.  It was a glorious moment hearing her engine for the first time.  She was such a fun car to drive, being that low to the road, however it’d be a while before I could afford the insurance on it, £2000 was my initial quote, I had to sigh, admit defeat and put it in my dads name and be a named driver.

I drove this car just for the sheer hell of driving, I’d set out “I’ll be back when I’m back” I’d shout to my folks “Where are you going?”  “Where ever the road takes me” I’d say back.  The thrill of going around the corners of country lanes with the window down, the sound of the engine coming through the window… floor… everywhere, it was fantastic, people stopping to watch you pass, other MG drivers flashing and waving as we passed, it was a sort of “Oh congratulations, you got rid of all the rust too… still have orange snot?”.  I think my favorite thing to do in this car, was because it was clearly a classic with the chrome bumpers, was when being overtaken (only because I’d let them) by chavs in their Nova’s, I’d re-over-take them, whack the over-drive on and absolutely fly past them, I’d often try to see their reaction in the mirrors and occasionally I’d see the look of “eh? me not know what happened”.  Classic.  There was also numerous troubles with this car too, being old, it broke down, luckily I had a fairly adequate knowledge of what to do.  Most of the time it required a phone call, but not always.  If it wasnt for spare parts in the car, I think it’d gone a bit faster.

One memorable problem I have from this car, was filling her up on a cracking Thursday morning for my drive out to Ramsbury where I worked at the time, £40 I put in, drove to work, got out, sniffed the fresh country air… not this time… what greeted me was not tweeting birds, but the smell of petrol, quite strong-smelling petrol… I looked under, and sure enough, a pretty much constant flow of fuel coming from my tank, I look back up the road, and sure enough, a trail all the way back to Sainsburys filling station (I couldn’t see that far but I guessed).  I pop my head in the door “I’m here, but I gotta go, I have a slight leak on my fuel tank, and would rather it doesnt blow up… by slight, I mean stream.” They were a pretty cool bunch and said thats fine, I drive home, syphon out the rest of the fuel by sucking it through a garden hose, which is never nice.  Get my sister to drive me to Bristol to buy a new fuel tank, and get back fit it, check all the seals, cross my fingers putting fuel back in, and thats that it’s a car again.  £170 it cost me in fuel that day.  Wasn’t best pleased.  But I forgave her straight away.  I could talk for hours about this car, I really could, I had to stop driving her for a little while as I wanted to do some further work on her, I never fully got around to it, I bought the next car reluctantly during that off time, and then when she was ready, she rode the roads again up until November 2008, when I very very very very reluctantly sold her as I couldn’t afford to get her how I wanted her to be, I had neither the time nor the money, plus she didnt like cold mornings.  I put her on eBay, and got an unsatisfactory £1700 for her, she’s now with some rich dude just outside London along side a bunch of other classic cars, I hope she’s having fun.  I miss you.

1997 Rover 200 – (aka The Inbetweener)

Those eagle-eyed readers will realise that in my opening paragraph I said about granddads in rover 200’s… well, this was nothing different.
Sadly in 2005, my Gramps died of cancer, my Gran, she couldn’t drive, so had his car sat in the garage, not doing much at all.  She was looking to sell it, and I was looking for an inbetweener car whilst the B was being tarted up.  I decided that I would buy this car from my gran.  It’s a diesel, big 2ltr engine in it, when I first sat in it, from having the B, first thought was it feels like I’m in a bus, there is so much windscreen here, second thought after turning it on, reversing, and using the steering wheel was “Crap, I think somethings wrong with the steering?! it shouldn’t be this easy should it?”  silly Antony forgot that new cars have power steering didnt he.  That was a novelty for the first two weeks, then it wore off.  Much like permanent marker pen after a drunken night around a mates and waking up to find it all over your face.  That’s another tale.  Anyway, I don’t have anything fantastic to say about this car, it was white, it used diesel, so it sounded like a tractor, and tractors look cool.  Once the B was back on the road, I then sold it to my mum, who still drives it to this day… she’s getting old you see, we’ll get her on the worthers originals soon.  I then went back to the B as stated previous till November 2008.

2003 Vauxhall Corsa  – (aka Robbin)

This is my current car, its nice, its small, its cheap tax, economical, I read reviews, I looked at top gear, I checked insurance quotes, I searched auto-trader, I bought it.  Now red was not my choice, I wanted a black one, because black is cool.  Red, not so much, not a fan of red cars, but 1 previous owner, low mileage, and a competitive price, I would be foolish not to go for this car.  It was the replacement of my precious MG B GT, and I wanted it to be a good replacement, I feel I made a good choice, it’s not the car I want to stick with for ever though, it’s a good drive, its nippy off the lights as long as you have the right gear and the clutch ready to go.  It’s fairly sporty looking, and I like the interior.  What pisses me off though is that it’s cost me more bloody money in its first year than any of my other cars, including the MG B GT.  For the first MOT I got for this car, I got a full service to keep it up to date, £100 but worth it if it’ll keep the value of the car up when I come to re-sell, £40 for the MOT… I get a phone call “I’m afraid it’s failed the MOT, the steering rack is wearing out on one side, you can either get it replaced by Vauxhall just the side, or for another £60 you can get the whole thing replaced today by us as the other side may wear out come next MOT”  “How much?” “£400 including the service”  “Fuck me” was my response.  Luckily we got it down to £330, but it’s still a lot of money.  But other than that, it’s a nice car to drive, and the works been done now, so if in a year you want to buy it, look me up!.  It’s a nice car as I’ve said, I’ve done a fair amount of driving in it, but I don’t get that sense of driving from it, now Im used to it, it seems sluggish, no real power there when trying to over-take, its got pace, but it just takes a while to get there.  Brilliant car for someone with a low student budget who wants a nice looking car etc.  Ooh, it also had its window smashed when I was at a gig, playing.  Nothing taken, just smashed for shits and giggles by little shitty shits.  So really, this car isn’t very lucky for me, I don’t mind driving it, but I don’t get a real buzz whilst driving it.  Thats where the future comes in…

The Future – Mini Cooper S

This is my car of the future, once I finish uni, and have been in my job a few months, I am getting one of these, I’ve always liked the Mini, from the old classics, to the new style as seen here.  The Mini Cooper S (MCS), is not only a sexy piece of car, but it also goes like the clappers as standard, with a bit of extra tuning and a few tweaks, you can get around 200bhp! A friend who I met via an MMO (Star Wars Galaxies) owns a MCS, he has been working on his for a couple of years now, and this year, it was voted Mini Cooper S of the Year 2009, it looks fantastic, he’s done basic mods on it, not making it look tacky or chavy at all, it looks like a Mini still, but goes like a bat out of hell.  I want to do something similar with mine, I love everything about them look wise, and they always seem to perform well, I just want to drive one and own one now.  I have that same craving for one that I did with my MG B GT, and I know that craving hasn’t failed me before, I want it, I need it, and I will get it.  It’ll be my hobby, my car, what I want, every other car I’ve had, people have said oh yes, thats a good car, get this one over the one you really want (other than with the B), I will listen to advice, but if it’s not exactly what I want, Im not getting it.  I don’t want another red car as long as I live, red cars seem bad luck and cause expense, and need a lot of polishing to stay looking nice, white cars, yes I decided on that colour for the B, but only because it was her original colour.  For my MCS, she’ll be mine, all mine, what I want… and I’ll be happy… next job after that, my own place.

Hope you’ve enjoyed reading my blog here, I enjoyed writing this one, I know its pretty epic, and progressively less written about each car, but I tried, you gotta give me that much… right?

In the first step of a 2-step maneuver, Mars Exploration Rover Spirit’s right rear wheel stalled once more as it attempted to become free on November 28th, 2009. This isn’t the first time that the wheel stalled, however it did stall more quickly. The stall also didn’t seem to be a factor of the terrain the wheel is in, but rotor resistance within the wheel’s internal actuator.

This blink comparison aids evaluation of a drive by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during the rover’s 2,099th Martian day, or sol (Nov. 28, 2009).

Project Engineers will now be running diagnostics to check the health of the actuator and any potential terrain hazards before making another attempt to get the rover free. This was part of a series of attempts to free Spirit which began back on November 17th.

Spirit has been stuck in loose soil in an area known as Troy since May. The rover’s wheels are in loose soil with iron sulfate hidden underneath. The composition of the iron sulfate is not the greatest terrain for the rover to travel on as the wheels have much difficulty finding traction.

A screen shot from software used by the Mars Exploration Rover team for assessing movements by Spirit and Opportunity illustrates the degree to which Spirit’s wheels have become embedded in soft material at the location called “Troy.”

JPL has been using several test rovers, recreating Spirit’s predicament back here on Earth. This alone is a task in itself as compensating for the lower gravity of Mars and atmospheric pressure must be done as well.

Planning an escape for the Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit

So the Spirit Rover has been stuck since 2006, feeling like it hasn’t been pulling it’s weight while it’s companion Opportunity is galavanting on the other side of the planet, and since it’s been wheel digging anyway Spirit has decided to discover sulfates in the area. In fact if the spirited Spirit had been stuck just a little bit to the right (See Below), it would have missed it completely.

What does this mean for you? Probably not much but it’s one piece to the bigger picture. As explained here by Dauna Coulter:

Here’s what the scientists think: When a Martian pole faces the sun in Martian summer, it gets warmer at that pole and the water ice shifts to the equator. It even snows there! Warm dark soil under the snow causes the bottom layer of snow to melt. The water trickles into the sulfates, dissolving the water-soluble iron sulfates and forming a crust with the calcium sulfates remaining.

“By being stuck at Troy, Spirit has been able to teach us about the modern water cycle on Mars.” Indeed, Spirit’s saga at Troy has given scientists material evidence of past water on Mars on two time scales: ancient volcanic times, and cycles ongoing to the present day.

I can’t say I’m not excited! Here’s to more wonderful discoveries and a much longer life to both Spirit and Opportunity.

Images Provided by Science@Nasa.com and MERM.

I waited all day for the Rover to show up, but it never came.

December 2 – Austin Maestro

I couldn’t believe my eyes. Sitting at the lights was a Maestro. Yes, that’s right, a Maestro. White with standard rust patches and missing wheeltrims, which just made it all the more Maestro-ish.

I’d forgotten these things even existed. When I was young, the bowling green groundsman had an (ironically) green one with drilled steel wheels. It didn’t last long. I had a couple of Corgi Maestro vans as well, oddly enough, one of which was branded ‘British Gas’ and carried a matching generaton…showing my age, I know.

Apparently they carried on building them in Bulgaria after we had gotten sick of them in Britain, but the last ones I can remember were K reg or thereabouts. They had horrible, horrible sounding diesels if I remember rightly, and pulled that mid-90s Rover trick of putting ornate-looking silver wheeltrims on them in a last-ditch attempt to make them look respectable – despite the fact that at the same time and for not a lot more cash, you could have had a (then new) Mark 3 Golf.

For my sins I drove one of these things a few years back on an autotest and, shock horror, had quite a bit of fun in it. It was a 2.0-
litre GT MG version complete with red seatbelts, and the fun may have had something to do with the fact it was only accelerating in first and second gears and being handbraked round some cones. I’m sure if I took it out on the road the novelty would soon wear off.

It must be a sign of me getting old when most of the cars I can remember from being a wee boy are no longer on the road. I hope someone, somewhere has preserved one of these things though, just as a grim reminder of how far cars have come in a relatively short space of time.

I’d always thought the government’s recently extended scrappage scheme had been a good idea. A boost to a suffering industry, hard hit by the recession. But now I’ve actually had to say goodbye to my first car, my beloved Pom, I’m not so sure. Suddenly the two grand to put towards a new car seems like nothing. Surely ten years of memories – seven of me driving him, are worth so much more?

He seguido la producción de esta película muy de cerca desde hace un tiempecillo, y había cosas que aún sabiéndolas, por eso que se llama “secreto profesional” no he podido desvelar antes, y todo esto generó una serie de expectativas sobre la película, que para mi desgracia no se han cumplido. La peli más cara de la historia del cine español (y eso que el guionista y las voces originales son americanas) y se han limitado a hacer un refrito (que algunos se limitarán a decir que son homenajes como ya pasó con Monstruos vs. Alienígenas) de pelis de “marcianos” pero a la inversa. Pero que conste que no está tan mal como podrias pensar según mis palabras anteriores.

Como todos sabeis (y como se ha encargado A3 en informarnos continuamente sobre la peli), un astronauta llega a un planeta de aliens que tienen una vida normal aunque anclada en lo que sería nuestros años 50. Lo demás…….pues las mismas historias que hemos visto una y otra vez en el cine en otras pelis de ciencia-ficción pero cambiando los papeles, y sustituyendo a los actores reales por animación.

Y sí, la animación esta genial, los aliens son perfectos (me quedo sin lugar a dudas con el perro, una gran idea) y su mundo cincuentero, esos cadillacs voladores, esas diferencias en las caras de cada alien, si si, todo perfecto, pero el guión cogea de muchos muchos sitios. Y esto significa, que esos 50 millones que ha valido la película, se la ha llevado el famosísimo Joe Stillman que hizo su gran obra con Shrek, pero que desde entonces cualquier cosa le vale, y no es así, o por lo menos yo no lo veo así, y más si tenemos en cuenta que los aliens tienen un cierto parecido con el ogro verde (hasta las antenas……).

Eso sí, la BSO estupenda pero porque estoy condicionada a que me encanta la música de los 50-60, y siempre que alguna de esas canciones aparezca en una película, pues como que la llevaré mejor por pelin cansina que me resulte, porque la verdad, es que no se cuantas veces he visto ya el homenaje de la bici-et-humano-luna, y sinceramente ya cansa.

Menos mal que la peli es para los niños, y estoy convencida que a ellos les gustará, ya que al ser tan pequeños, ocupan sus horas viendo series supuestamente indicadas para ellos y no tantas películas como hayamos podido ver nosotros (eso sin hablar de la telebasura que les meten, pero eso es otra historia y demasiado larga). Por lo tanto, creo que se lo pasaran en grande con las aventuras de Lem y Chuck, que sacarán la moralina que nos intenta enseñar la peli (más que mil veces vista, y sino vuelvo a recurrir a Shrek, ya que es la misma moraleja) y que les parecerá divertida y en ocasiones desternillante (aunque no creo que el chiste de la antena de Chuck lleguen a entenderlo), pero a diferencia de otras pelis de animación en la que niños y mayores disfrutábamos, en esta no es que los mayores disfrutemos tanto como nos hubiese gustado, desde que los chicos de Ilion Studios se pusieron manos a la obra para llevar este film a la pantalla grande.

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Karelia

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 “Where’s the Kindle version?” 2009-11-28
By Joshua Reineke (Anchorage, AK United States)
You gotta be kidding me, no Kindle version? I ended up buying the hardcover version, but I’m shocked there is no digital version. Boo. I loved the last 2 installments, and confident that I would give this a 5 were it not for the lack of a digital version. Come on Amazon.

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I requested this book from the vine because I love L.A. Confidential (Two-Disc Special Edition)(yes the movie, not the book). I have never read James Ellroy before, so I did not read the previous 2 books of this trilogy. Maybe that was a mistake. I just had a difficult time getting into this. I would like to read something else of his and come back to this, but I am just not a fan at this point. It was not bad, I just could not get into it.

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I have been reading James Ellroy’s books for a very long time, and I think I’ve read everything he’s written. This is without a doubt his greatest work. The characters are bad actors, evil people, and flawed. A few of them are occasionally warm, loving, and most of all, persistent. You want Sesame Street? This isn’t it. This is the world some very powerful people live in. Some of them eventually reach very high office.

 “A great book for another author, slightly disappointing for Ellroy” 2009-11-23
By David P Yah! (Boston, MA United States)
I am a huge Ellroy fan but he burned me out on the conspiracy stuff with this one. Enough is enough, he’s gone to that well to the point where I can’t get that wrapped up in it anymore. I do think the story in this one is better than A Cold Six Thousand but the style is Ellroy redux again and again. That being said, it’s still a fun read and certainly interesting enough to hold your attention. I didn’t mind the way he jumped around between characters, that worked fine for me, I didn’t mind the labyrinthe of storyline and all the twists it took. The one thing I had a problem with is that he expected that the reader make leaps of faith far too often, to advance the story.

 “I’ll get this when it is on Kindle” 2009-11-21
By George Kirk (San Francisco, CA USA)
I’d love to read this and his earlier novels in the trilogy. I’ll get them when they are available on Kindle.

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