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Dark Places
Sep. 17th, 2006 02:52 am( What I Got Out of James Ellroy's Black Dahlia )
( Brian DePalma's Overwrought, Convoluted Adaptation )
My advice? If you're interested in murder mysteries based in L.A., you'd do better to read My Dark Places. He wrote this book late in his career, finally managing to talk about the real-life traumas that shaped his fictional obsessions. And Ellroy is far more eloquent writing about things he's lived through.
Or, alternatively, there's Hollywoodland, which actually tells a coherent story ...
( Brian DePalma's Overwrought, Convoluted Adaptation )
My advice? If you're interested in murder mysteries based in L.A., you'd do better to read My Dark Places. He wrote this book late in his career, finally managing to talk about the real-life traumas that shaped his fictional obsessions. And Ellroy is far more eloquent writing about things he's lived through.
Or, alternatively, there's Hollywoodland, which actually tells a coherent story ...
