| The Black Dahlia ugghhhh, I saw the trailer and I thought it would be a cool movie but it still hasn't been released here, anyway I saw the book at a store and it was kinda cheap so I bought it, and I regret. I even stopped reading Antonia Frasier's the journey because of it.
I stopped like 2 or three chapters after they found the Dahlia dead.
I know that James Ellroy is suppossed to be one of the great american authors but I think what I read sucks. It didn't even feel real, I totally felt like it was Ellroy coming through the character, the words seemed fake, I didn't buy it.
I've been reading lots of biographies lately so I guess I'm more interested in real life, maybe that's the reason, but I think the book was so boring, at least the part I wrote. It's like nothing happens. It's not like when I read The Alienist by Caleb Carr, I couldn't put it down and it was like 600 pages, it was that compelling.
Nothing grabbed me about this book and I couldn't get past the xenophobic, racist and homophobic writing. I get that he was trying to capture the 1940's feel but I think it was so contrived and I couldn't help but feel attacked, I'm latin and gay. And the book is so fucking macho, I think that is so boring.
Has anyone read it??? should I continue?? does it get good??? because I find it unreadable. |