At 10:17 AM 5/19/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Brian wrote:
> > I recall quite clearly that Buzz Meeks got shot
(and killed?) in the first
> > ten pages of "The Big Nowhere" because I only
read the first twenty.
>
>I made it to page fifty. It amazes me that Ellroy
enjoys such commercial
>success when a number of people who read a lot (as we
obviously do, or we
>wouldn't be members of this list) find his style
inaccessible. I think he's
>a tremendous writer. In fact, "LA Confidential" is
one of my favourite
>books. But I still found it hard work. I could not,
however, read "Ellroy
>Takes The Piss", sorry "The Cold Six Thousand". (Al
opens book. Al scans
>page. Al flips page. Al says, "Aaargh." Al wastes
money.)
Hi Al,
I couldn't agree more. If I want "difficult", I'll read
Joyce, because at least with Joyce there is a reward to it,
as opposed to swimming in the sewer with Elroy's
"Each-new-protagonist-scummier-than-the-last" string of
antiheroes.
Speaking as one who wasted a kindred amount of money on
Elroy,
Brian
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