Martha Fischer (sakana@stlnet.com)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:48:30 -0500
while i'm obviously wasting my time, reading ellroy
(particularly the big nowhere) mostly just makes me worry
about him. if i can't function normally while reading what he
write, how can he function with all that vivid, brutal horror
in his head?
martha
> B.Cox wrote:
>
> While reading it at night, I felt the need to keep a
billyclub under my
bed.
>
> I've read a fair amount of Ellroy, but in Killer on
the Road, he gets so
> convincingly into the killer's head that it made me
wonder about the
author
> himself.
> -------
>
> Those were the thoughts I had when I was reading the
damn thing. In light
> of his sordid criminal past, maybe there is
something to "wondering" about
> Ellroy's head. Reading My Dark Places sort of
indicates that lots of the
> non-murderous stuff if Killer On The Road isn't
necessarily "made up."
>
> Tribe
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