william_kent
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Is Don Winslow any good? He sometimes gets compared to Ellroy, Ellroy doing Mexican drug cartels.
Winslow is good for train journeys
not on the same level as prime Ellroy though
Is Don Winslow any good? He sometimes gets compared to Ellroy, Ellroy doing Mexican drug cartels.
who, @william_kent ?He got to the 60s then retreated back into the 50s.
Yeah, Carver credited Gordon Lish for his reputation.having said that who's that bloke who wrote could you please be quiet please. raymond carver. his gamously laconic minimal style is apparently an editorial collaboration.
i ask cos you can sense the presence of that industrial nob-piercing sex-dungeon milieu plus a familarity with rap and reggae that suggest being a teenager in the eightiesare you in your 50s William?
aka WYH, Martin and Kent.that industrial nob-piercing sex-dungeon milieu
and Eden and Danny...aka WYH, Martin and Kent.
this is one of your best ever insights. plus they all operate in a time when women wore red dresses, veils, pillbox hats, etcdetectives are cool cos they are outside of the system. they play by their own rules and they are bound by their own code.
'Unquestionably one of the worst written books I’ve ever set eyeballs on. Cringey, forced “colloquial” dialogue made it unbearable. Imagine if Danny Dyer wrote a book over a weekend coked up. It’d be better than this.'Jamie Jackson, the Guardian football journalist who people always have a go at for being a Man United fan, wrote a detective novel under the name "Jamie Paradise".
i'd love to check this out'Unquestionably one of the worst written books I’ve ever set eyeballs on. Cringey, forced “colloquial” dialogue made it unbearable. Imagine if Danny Dyer wrote a book over a weekend coked up. It’d be better than this.'
i'd love to check this out