> The last three by Ellroy
> have not convinced me. In fact, I found The Cold
Six
> Thousand barely readable and generally
disagreeable.
>
> Best,
>
> MrT
>
Re: THE COLD 6K. I was going to say I couldn't agree
more but actually I would express my opinion more strongly. I
think it's barely literate & I have no doubt that if the
manuscript had had my name, or Irving Forbush's on it, it
would never have gotten past the slush pile. I couldn't begin
to enumerate all the problems with the book but one thing
that particularly annoyed me was all the coughing &
eyerolling the characters were doing. (If I was Ellroy, I
could have written "shagging"
& "shagging" but then no-one would know what the shag I
was shagging on about.) Well, I've shagged off enough, I'm
going to shag a cup of coffee
& shag a bath. "Shag you later" he coughed. The Boys
rolled their eyes. The Boys coughed. The Boys were pissed.
They were pissed off boffo, as Edgar Hoover would say.
Rene - PS - in case you haven't worked it out "shag" is a
verb. Any verb.
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