Are there any other genre writers who can write as well as James Ellroy?
>>8978700
Cool shirt
Ugh, fuck off to plebbit with your genre shit. We discuss the classics here, Homer, Joyce, Camus, if you've even heard of them.
>>8978700
not in crime there isn't. there's hammett and chandler, spillane I guess, but ellroy is the GOAT. I've read underworld usa about five times. BaR is weak but the first two are completely perfect. he's a god.
maybe one or two alive.
>>8978700
Bump
wanna get into sci-fi but don't wanna read hacks like Bradbury or Asimov
>>8978958
>Bradbury
>hack
necketty neck yourself
>>8978958
L.E.M. is where it is at, fellow capitalist.
>>8978700
James McElroy
>>8978958
Bradbury is obviously a hack, yes, but I don't know how you figure that about Asimov
>>8978733
>hasn't read Ellroy and yet wants to pretend he has high taste
Kill yourself
>>8978733
>Camus
mediocre bait 5.5/10
>>8979245
Because he's not much better when compared to James Ellroy?
I sipped a little Ellroy oncet. Too many words.
James M. Cain, Postman Always Rings Twice = great crime fiction.
iain m banks
elmore leonard
mervyn peake
iain m banks
>>8978936
this
ellroy is absolute GOAT crime fiction, and I'd rank him up with Delillo and Pynchon for greatest living American writers
>>8978733
Let me guess, (you) are intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor
>>8978700
Define "writing well."
Do you mean he's some kind of supremo prose stylist? Because he isn't. Nor does he try to be.
>>8978733
>How to spot a dilettante
>>8981724
No, but the prose he writes is vastly better than any other genre writer.