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Jul 8, 2016 - 6:38 AM
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MikeP
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Is James Ellroy secretly.... Solium? Ha, not me, but I'm getting there. No, there's still time , I can feel the good in you, you haven't turned to the Dark Side yet I used to be really into Ellroy, but as his books became bigger they gained more of a self important tone and became less compelling. And the he's always been a pain in the ass Although the first video above shows him to be slyly playing up his notorious Grumpy Old Bastard image, he's wrong about one thing, the film version of L.A. Confidential runs circles around the book. Once he became a slightly recognizable public figure, he's really had a ball using that megalomaniac persona.
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I've only read the LA Quartet and maybe 4 others, Browns Requiem and American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand but liked then a lot, especially seeing the various characters interwoven through them. Some being lead characters in one book and then offed unceremoniously in another. When you read LA Vonfidential you realise how amazing the film adaption is. A 10 year long sprawling plot distilled down so well. I don't like the man himself so much. He's like Jose Morinho. I don't see that many interviews of him and hàlf the time he just annoys me and half the time I like him but he's an interesting dude. Also I think his writing style has gone too far for me to enjoy fully, with his incredibly short sentences for the most part. I'm not sure if it's in the interviews above but I do remember him saying after LA Comfidential film came out a woman came up to him and said "I just love the film!" "Did you buy the book," he asked. "No." "Then what the fuck use are you to me." I might be a bit off with the exact wording.
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