Are there any other genre writers who can write as well as James Ellroy?

Are there any other genre writers who can write as well as James Ellroy?

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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.

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.

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wanna get into sci-fi but don't wanna read hacks like Bradbury or Asimov

>Bradbury
>hack

necketty neck yourself

L.E.M. is where it is at, fellow capitalist.

James McElroy

Bradbury is obviously a hack, yes, but I don't know how you figure that about Asimov

>hasn't read Ellroy and yet wants to pretend he has high taste
Kill yourself

>Camus
mediocre bait 5.5/10

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.

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ellroy is absolute GOAT crime fiction, and I'd rank him up with Delillo and Pynchon for greatest living American writers

Let me guess, (you) are intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor

Define "writing well."

Do you mean he's some kind of supremo prose stylist? Because he isn't. Nor does he try to be.

>How to spot a dilettante

No, but the prose he writes is vastly better than any other genre writer.