The Glitter Dome
Written by Joseph Wambaugh
Narrated by Adam Verner
3.5/5
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Joseph Wambaugh
The son of a policeman, Joseph Wambaugh (b. 1937) began his writing career while a member of the Los Angeles Police Department. He joined the LAPD in 1960 after three years in the Marine Corps, and rose to the rank of detective sergeant before retiring in 1974. His first novel, The New Centurions (1971), was a quick success, drawing praise for its realistic action and intelligent characterization, and was adapted into a feature film starring George C. Scott. He followed it up with The Blue Knight (1972), which was adapted into a mini-series starring William Holden and Lee Remick. Since then Wambaugh has continued writing about the LAPD. He has been credited with a realistic portrayal of police officers, showing them not as superheroes but as men struggling with a difficult job, a depiction taken mainstream by television’s Police Story, which Wambaugh helped create in the mid-1970s. In addition to novels, Wambaugh has written nonfiction, winning a special Edgar Award for 1974’s The Onion Field, an account of the longest criminal trial in California history. His most recent work is the novel Hollywood Moon (2010).
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Having read other Wambaughs I turned to this book after doing a spate of Churchill readings. The book is entertaining and deals with to some degree with the alienation that law enforcement can impose on one's emotional life.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Glitter Dome is another stellar entry in Joseph Wambaugh's chronicles of the LAPD. The eponymous institution is a watering hole for the group of cops we get to know almost strictly through their day-to-day action on the job. Hilarious at many points, like all Wambaugh books, however, it's built on a dark foundation of desperate sorrow and human suffering. Truly, there are few writers who cut closer to the bone when exploring the truth about human nature.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Wambaugh is uneven. Some of his books are terrific, this one isn't one of them. Get Hollywood Station instead.