Robert Elkin wrote:
> Thanks for the hostility, Brian. Much
appreciated.
There was no hostility in my posting. My comments were
directed at what I disliked about Ellroy's work. This is
nothing new here. A search of the RA Archives will bear this
out. Someone else here mentioned that they felt that Ellroy
got it exactly right with WHITE JAZZ, but had descended into
parody with his next book. My comments, while more explicit
about what I disliked, style-wise, were not so different from
that (I just felt that he descended into self-parody faster).
Besides, like I said, I thought THE BLACK DAHLIA was
brilliant.
Isn't disagreement a logical and foreseeable by-product of
discourse, and vice-versa? The last thing I'd expect anyone
on this list to do is to agree with all of my opinions on the
books we're talking about. Is it wrong to expect the full
gamut of opinions to be expressed here when a controversial
author comes up for discussion? After all, who wants to be
involved in a book discussion list that is just one big
love-fest for whichever author is getting discussed? If I
were looking for that, I'd be motoring on over to one of
those Oprah Book Club lists that must be all over the net by
now.
No harm intended, and nothing personal.
All the Best-
Brian Thornton
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