Are there any other genre writers who can write as well

>>8978700
Cool shirt

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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.