 | The Day of the Locust and the Dream Life of Balso Snell" (Penguin Modern Classics) by Nathanael West
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £2.50 West's classic novella about an artist in the dark side of Hollywood...(& there's a character called Homer Simpson!)
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 | Pacific Ocean Blue by Dennis Wilson
Buy used from: £40.51 Sadly unavailable solo classic from late Beach Boy; up there with 461 Ocean Boulevard, Greetings from LA & On the Beach...
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 | San Francisco by American Music Club
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.25 Since California is deleted, here's the last underrated AMC LP: I Broke My Promise, Wish the World Away, In the Shadow of the Valley......
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 | Already Dead: A California Gothic by Denis Johnson
Buy used from: £0.27 David Lynch really should film this book from the great writer of Jesus' Son and The Name of the World...
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![Shampoo [1975]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M267D5F8L._SL75_.jpg) | Shampoo [1975]
Buy used from: £0.99 Directed by Hal Ashby & written by Beatty/Towne a farce set around Nixon coming to power. Great soundtrack: Beach Boys, Beatles, Buffalo Springfield..
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![Mulholland Drive [2002]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YS743A38L._SL75_.jpg) | Mulholland Drive [2002]
Buy new: £19.99 / Used from: £2.15 If Bunuel had directed Sunset Boulevard?
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 | Valis (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £2.48 / Used from: £2.04 Well, it starts off in California & ends in Roman-hallucination (with bits of A Scanner Darkly)...
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 | Greetings from La by Tim Buckley
Buy new: £3.96 / Used from: £2.50 The final masterpiece from Tim Buckley, so obvious it's mindblowing!: Sweet Surrender, Get On Top, Nighthawkin'...
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![The Conversation [1974]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HGFQNE9JL._SL75_.jpg) | The Conversation [1974]
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.53 Blow Up in & around San Francisco from Coppola and co (Duvall, Hackman, Ford, Murch etc)
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 | Hollywood by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £3.96 / Used from: £3.90 Bukowski's Hollywood novel then...this book is seen in-
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![Swingers [1997]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WHCPEYP4L._SL75_.jpg) | Swingers [1997]
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 this charming comedy set around actor/losers in Hollywood...
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 | Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
Buy used from: £0.01 Out in the Californian Desert at the beginning of the 90s when the millennium felt like an exciting idea...
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 | The Band by The Band
Buy new: £4.01 / Used from: £3.90 Recorded in the swimming pool/outhouse of Sammy Davis Jr's Hollywood home!: King Harvest, Whispering Pines, Up on Cripple Creek, The Unfaithful Servant...
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 | Beach Boys Today/Summer Days (and Summer Nights) by Beach Boys
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.07 This is probably the definitive Californian record...
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![Chinatown [1974]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5167R6RPA3L._SL75_.jpg) | Chinatown [1974]
Buy new: £2.68 / Used from: £1.99 Polanski & Towne in a colorised take on noir; pity about The Two Jakes...
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 | I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks) by Richard Matheson
Buy new: £4.29 / Used from: £1.50 Richard Matheson's classic vampire novel filmed as 'The Omega Man'...
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 | On the Beach by Neil Young
Buy new: £4.06 / Used from: £5.61 The final part of Young's so-called Doom Trilogy, Manson/Nixon & all that: Revolution Blues, Ambulance Blues, For the Turnstiles, Motion Pictures...
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 | Ask The Dust by John Fante
Buy new: £2.51 / Used from: £2.36 Fante's classic novel about the seamy side of LA, a big influence on Bukowski & Chinatown..
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 | City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (The Haymarket Series) by Mike Davis
Buy new: £11.21 / Used from: £2.84 |
 | Forever Changes: Expanded by Love
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £3.30 Reissue of classic album from Arthur Lee & co: Laughing Stock, You Set the Scene, Alone Again Or, The Red Telephone...
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 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Feeling (2001)
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £4.20 The best episode of Buffy & afterwards it couldn't be bettered. Nice songs too!
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 | L.A.Noir: The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy - "Blood on the Moon", "Because the Night", "Suicide Hill" (The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy) by James Ellroy
Buy new: £9.80 / Used from: £1.18 Early works from James Ellroy...
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 | L.A Woman by The Doors
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £1.45 Obvious I know, but in the right mood, great fun: Hyacinth House, The Wasp, Been Down So Long, The Changeling...
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![American Gigolo [1980]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZDRJCEP5L._SL75_.jpg) | American Gigolo [1980]
Buy new: £3.30 / Used from: £2.50 Paul Schrader's lost character lost in Los Angeles...
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 | Big Sur (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy used from: £0.36 Probably my favourite Kerouac work....though sadly not big enough to effectively hit The Thrills round the head with....
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