Ellroy &Pynchon WAS RE: The movies

[calbert at tiac.net]

Doug:


> I'm working through and enjoying  Ellroy's so-called "LA Quartet",
> finishing up L.A. Confidential after having recently read The Black
> Dahlia and The Big Nowhere.  I find Ellroy to be a kick-ass writer and
> I love the way he weaves the bebop, cop, gangster, demimonde, dope
> peddler/user slang and sensibility of the late-40s and 50s into his
> stories -- he writes syncopated prose that really pops.

His dialogue is utterly awful, it is what Lynne Cheney might come up 
with.....bad enough to keep me from reading any more, in spite of 
his inventive plots......

love,
cfa