In a message dated 12/8/07 2:09:48 PM,
jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com writes:
>
> John, I find nothing in common between Connelly and
Chandler... To me,
> Connelly is descended from the great journalistic
writers, not from
> any fiction writer that I can recognize. He writes
like a damn fine
> reporter. We're lucky he turned to
fiction!
>
in LOST LIGHT, Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD and is
working as a private investigator. unlike most Bosch
procedurals, which are written in the 3rd person, Lost Light
is written in the first:
"... Hollywood was always best viewed at night. It could only
hold its mystique in darkness. In sunlight the curtain comes
up and the intrigue is gone, replaced by a sense of hidden
danger. It was a place of takers and users, of broken
sidewalks and dreams. You build a city in the desert, water
it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is
what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves
it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets,
predators hide in the rocks... "
tangentially, I recall that Terrill Lankford has credited
Altman's The Long Goodbye with inspiring Connelly to write
detective stories set in L.A. Terrill should know, he's the
author's friend and business associate
I find it easy to extrapolate that if the man who wrote the
above paragraph was inspired by Altman's film, then the
essence of Chandler permeates that work at its very
core
John Lau
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