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L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories [Kindle Edition]

Rockstar Games
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)

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Sold by: Hachette Book Group

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Book Description

Rockstar Games has partnered with Mulholland Books to publish a collection of short fiction expanding the world of the newest groundbreaking achievement in storytelling: the interactive crime thriller L.A. Noire.

1940s Hollywood, murder, deception and mystery take center stage as readers reintroduce themselves to characters seen in L.A. Noire. Explore the lives of actresses desperate for the Hollywood spotlight; heroes turned defeated men; and classic Noir villains. Readers will come across not only familiar faces, but familiar cases from the game that take on a new spin to tell the tales of emotionally torn protagonists, depraved schemers and their ill-fated victims.

With original short fiction by Megan Abbott, Lawrence Block, Joe Lansdale, Joyce Carol Oates, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer, Duane Swierczynski and Andrew Vachss, L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories breathes new life into a time-honored American tradition, in an exciting anthology that will appeal to fans of suspense and gamers everywhere.

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Product Details

  • File Size: 1177 KB
  • Print Length: 180 pages
  • Publisher: Mulholland Books (June 6, 2011)
  • Sold by: Hachette Book Group
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004YYWHAY
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Lending: Not Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,323 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Gritty, smoky, like a waking dream from the 1950s. Ms Beastle  |  1 reviewer made a similar statement
What a fun read! Caren D. Cross     
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT collection! June 13, 2011
Format:Kindle Edition
L.A. Noire is a great collection of stories by some of my favorite authors. What a fun read! Jonathan Santlofer put together this collection and it turns out that my favorite story is his. "What's in a Name?" is riveting, scary, and funny (just like all of Santlofer's terrific books.) I couldn't help but think that this would be a terrific movie! In fact, I always feel this way when I read Santlofer's books.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Stories by Lansdale and Vachss June 12, 2011
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Two excellent stories, respectively by Joe Lansdale and Andrew Vachss, anchor a solid collection of short tales set in 1947 Los Angeles. Although the anthology is timed to support the release of the eponymous Rockstar videogame, both gamers and noir-lovers will find a completely independent pleasure in reading it.

Lansdale's NAKED ANGEL starts with the discovery of a murdered ice princess and quickly pulls the reader along to the frozen finale.
POSTWAR BOOM, by Andrew Vachss, takes the opposite tack. Two hard guys make preparations for a killing, until Vachss shocks the reader with a denouement that blasts away all genre expectations.

Read this book now!
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5.0 out of 5 stars great ebook! May 12, 2013
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Very well done collection of shorts. Just wish more would have been incorporated into the game. Love me some Noire!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice book - enjoyed it
I played LA Noire and it was interesting to read some of the games characters in the stories. The price was right too.
Published 1 month ago by A. Beals
3.0 out of 5 stars Ok Read
Meh. There were only a handful of good stories in this collection. I guess the whole purpose of books like these is to have authors be discovered by the reader and one stood out... Read more
Published 2 months ago by B. M Phillip
3.0 out of 5 stars Good Read
This book is not of the story in the video game LA Noire. This book consists of stories based in LA with some characters from the game but not much. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Dominik
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff!
Some really nice work here, and some not so good. But overall it's a good read and I love all the references to Los Angeles in another era. Home!! Read more
Published 3 months ago by Dennis A. Pratt
3.0 out of 5 stars Not a bad read
It was free at the time, but it was not a bad read. Some interesting stories about Hollywood. One interesting one in particular was the story about Black Dahlia and Marilyn Monroe.
Published 4 months ago by A. Grishina
4.0 out of 5 stars L.A. Noire
Rock Star games nailed it with the game and these stories. I like reading the stories then traveling to the locations in the game again.
Published 4 months ago by Ezra Stickette
4.0 out of 5 stars hard boiled stories
LA Noire is a collection of crime stories written in the older style of police-detective novels and pulp fiction. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Nolongerteaching
4.0 out of 5 stars LA Noire fans should appreciate it
I was surprised how interesting the stories were. A few of them dragged a little but the good ones made up for it.
Published 12 months ago by Nellie
4.0 out of 5 stars Some cracking stories
Some of these stories were great and really did create a "noir" atmosphere without coming across as parody. Read more
Published 13 months ago by The Emperor
3.0 out of 5 stars Just okay.
Hmmm. It was okay. Some of the stories I liked, some I didn't. Ultimately, none of them stuck with me enough to really stand out.
Published 14 months ago by Ian T. Healy
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