Bob Toomey (btoomey@javanet.com)
Fri, 31 Dec 1999 23:23:25 +0000
pabergin wrote:IMO, Ellroy has to be the biggest no-talent
puffball since Spillane, another
> author whose total contribution to the genre was to
point out, by example,
> its failures.
>
> Like the inimitable Mick, Ellroy
> 1 - Cannot develop a believable or interesting
character.
> 2 - Cannot write dialogue.
> 3 - Cannot divorce his own contrived self-image from
his work.
Well, I'm no big fan of Ellroy myself, but at least one of
his novels, an Avon original PB that never gets mentioned in
all the Ellroy discussions, SILENT TERROR (reprinted by
somebody or other as KILLER ON THE ROAD), is as chilling and
believable a first-person portrait of a serial killer as the
journals of Carl Panzram. Give it a try.
BobT
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