Mario Taboada (matrxtech@yahoo.com)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:26:53 -0700 (PDT)
Ellroy:
<<I put down Jim Thompson's book "The Killer Inside
Me." I just thought it was shit. I honestly think that most
noir is cliche.>>
And I would say that the outrageous Ellroy interview is also
a cliché® The sad thing is that Ellroy has interesting ideas
about the genre -- yet he talks in simplistic terms ("it was
shit" is unworthy of a writer of his stature and
talent).
Perhaps Ellroy should read John D. MacDonald's comments on
Norbert Davis (that he made a bad mistake in despising the
genre that nurtured him, in thinking that he had transcended
it and gone on to better things, etc.).
Regards,
mt
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