Yeah, the Day of the Owl movie is Film Soleil rather than Film Noir
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 3 November 2023 11:33 (six months ago) link
tbf so is Point Blank!
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 3 November 2023 11:39 (six months ago) link
To Each His Own is a great novel, and it ends on quite the note, both in terms of how the story ultimately concludes, and in terms of the implied behavior of secondary characters. i appreciate a take on the mafia which is almost entirely on the outside looking in, from the perspective of a civilian who is naive to the full extent of their evil. i like a good counterpoint to the usual; for example i enjoy a lot of the recent mafia/camorra shows from italy but the protagonists of almost all of them are so vile and the shows are so devoid of humor and indulging in such pitch-black tone that it can be p draining.
― omar little, Friday, 3 November 2023 21:36 (six months ago) link
new James Ellroy The Enchanters is so good. the vibe is whiskey & dexadrine & no sleep for three days straight I’m a Marilyn fan and did not expect to enjoy Ellroy’s dyspeptic version of her because, well, it’s Ellroy & it’s going to be gross. but the level of lore he’s woven in is nuts and I have to admit it’s almost classic-Ellroy level good. The amount of research it must have taken to be able to riff like this and resolve 75 plot threads cohesively? highwire shit. Hats off.That being said I dunno if I could recommend it to anyone who isn’t already an Ellroy diehard. It prob won’t win him any new fans.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 05:33 (four months ago) link
*dexedrine
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 05:59 (four months ago) link
also i read somewhere that Ellroy still writes all of his books longhand
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 06:00 (four months ago) link
Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun - solid B+, kind of feels like a novel cousin of that movie Shot Caller.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 13 April 2024 18:13 (one month ago) link
I saw a copy of that James Ellroy book at the library today but passed.
I like the Jordan Harper — apparently it was reissued in paperback under the title A Lesson In Violence, which is the edition I have. His kinda-sorta follow-up, The Last King Of California, is also really good.
I just read Tana French's latest, The Hunter, which is a sequel to her previous one. It's really good, and/but there's a character who'll have you literally tapping your foot going "Just fucking die already."
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 13 April 2024 19:26 (one month ago) link
found Lady in the Lake (2019) by Laura Lippman a good read
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 15 April 2024 11:51 (one month ago) link