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.

the movie's better.

& so is every other thread on this board not made by you, for that matter.

was your cunty attitude necessary???? I'm on a with trial in this board. Go on, be part of the masses.


I heard the movie is pretty bad.

i wish you were on a witch trial. i'd personally burn you at the stake myself if i had the op.

the movie was brilliant. it was a disgusting, twisted storyline, & they made lesbians look sxy again. i'm sick of seeing all these butch rug munchers like charlize theron in Monster. we want the femmes.

& by femmes, i don't mean you. die now.

I liked the book, but it's been a while since I read it. I think you're at the part where it starts to get really interesting. They begin piecing together what happened and the pace picks up.

The first part is about boxing and politics and how the two cops met if I remember correctly. Once they start trying to solve the murder and you begin finding out about the girl's life it becomes addictive.

It doesn't get any less harsh though, so if you find it offensive so far, expect more of the same from the rest of the book.