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#61
06-26-2006, 12:01 AM
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Re: Great Trash books
A couple of these are already mentioned:
Ross MacDonald - Great tautly written LA noir. Crime, rich people, dysfunctional families, and the bitter side of the post-war American dream. James Ellroy - Hard boiled crime fiction on steroids. In the LA mysteries, lots of [censored] up psycho-sexual killers and cops chasing them who are very flawed but still empathetic. Also has written 2 out of planned 3 volumes in the "Underworld USA" trilogy. The first in this series, American Tabloid, is totally awesome, really a book like no other. Walter Mosley - Easy Rawlins novels are sharp noirs, with interesting black perspective on the genre. I haven't liked his stuff set in the contemporary period though. Dennis Lehane - Working-class Boston crime novels, not as good as the others but still pretty entertaining. 
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#62
06-26-2006, 11:57 AM
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Re: Great Trash books
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James Ellroy - Hard boiled crime fiction on steroids. In the LA mysteries, lots of [censored] up psycho-sexual killers and cops chasing them who are very flawed but still empathetic. Also has written 2 out of planned 3 volumes in the "Underworld USA" trilogy. The first in this series, American Tabloid, is totally awesome, really a book like no other. [/ QUOTE ] American Tabloid is really good. Too many people read LA Confidential, which sucks a lot.
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#63
06-26-2006, 03:58 PM
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Re: Great Trash books
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Bruiser It's like food . Sometimes you want fine steak and wine, sometimes you want a burger and a beer. There's great burgers and terrible burgers, even though they're all burgers. [/ QUOTE ] The Fleurburger. The "a burger is trash by definition" explanation kinda makes the word trash useless as a descriptor. ~D
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#64
06-26-2006, 05:49 PM
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Re: Great Trash books
How have Harold Robbins, Jackie Collins and Jeffrey Archer not been mentioned yet?
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#65
06-26-2006, 07:39 PM
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Re: Great Trash books
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[ QUOTE ] James Ellroy - Hard boiled crime fiction on steroids. In the LA mysteries, lots of [censored] up psycho-sexual killers and cops chasing them who are very flawed but still empathetic. Also has written 2 out of planned 3 volumes in the "Underworld USA" trilogy. The first in this series, American Tabloid, is totally awesome, really a book like no other. [/ QUOTE ] American Tabloid is really good. Too many people read LA Confidential, which sucks a lot. [/ QUOTE ] American Tabloid is Ellroy's masterpiece, but I definitely would not say that the LA Quartet sucks. The fourth book, White Jazz, is especially good.
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