On 3/14/07, vagrantpacific <
pacificvagrant@gmail.com> wrote:
Ellis is way, way overrated. Jason Starr is Ellis
with the ability to plot a story, create believable
characters and write something interesting without relying on
cutesy po-mo gimmicks.I don't know that Starr has changed
noir writing (It's kind of early to tell), but he's a better
chronicler of urban despair and nihilism than Ellis could
ever hope to be.
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
<rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>,
> DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
> << Wasn't that hardoiled's revolution, that
of
> > perspective? >>
>
> I keep thinking about Glamorama by Bret Easton
Ellis. This book gets
> camoflaged by lots
> of humor and post-modern glitz, but the narrative
perspective is totally
> Hammett inspired
> and played to the extreme, and the serious downward
spiralling structure
> into absolute
> oblivion is straight up Jim Thompson. Ultimately I
think Ellis swings
> things forward by
> pinning his noir onto relativism instead of the more
old school Christian
> based nihilism.
>
>
>
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