Black Dahlia continued....
I did some checking on the author. Butch had mentioned the movie L.A. Confidential and how many of the names were similar. It turns out that Ellroy also wrote LA Confidential. Wasn't sure if everyone knew that?
Another weird fact- Ellroy's mother was murdered in 1958 and the case was never solved. He was 10 years old. Apparently he used it as the subject of another novel called My Dark Places (1996). Also on the site- they discuss his addiction to a sinus inhaler called Benzedrex- sound familiar??
You can check it out at www.ellroy.com
There is another one www.noirnovels.com Not only is Ellroy mentioned on that site but also Chuck P-the author of Survivor.
posted by Shannon @ 5:29 PM
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Hello from the lone star state. I knew that there was more than a coincidence in all the connections between those movies. LA confidential would have won best picture but it came out the same year as titanic. Kudos to shannon for the research :)
Where was this site when I was reading the book??? It has a glossary of all his terms he used... it would have come in handy.
Very interesting.
And the glossary still does not define a "smoker"
this is a great website for people that are going to read the book. did anyone start survivor? i know shannon read it and i think maureen did too.
Maureen loaned me the book... I haven't looked at it yet. I will sometime this week though.
Yeah. I read it back in November. It's VERY, VERY weird, but it sucks you in.
I read it too. After reading Survivor and Choke, I saw Fight club again. It makes me chuckle now because that's exactly how he addresses the reader in his books.
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