The Black Dahlia
29 October 2009
I checked The Black Dahlia out from the library. I’m reading it for a work project, and since I’ve been curious about the case (and have read a little bit about it) plus I’ve never read Ellroy, now’s a good a time as any.
For starters, it’s almost embarrassing that as I was reading it during the break in my Psychology class, the tutor* told me it was one of his favourite books. That and we were talking about The Game as well, now everyone’s going to think I’m trying to curry favour with him.
But what of the book? I like noir, I think. I’ve always found the noir voice highly entertaining (hardboiled — like an egg), and if it’s a film, visually amazing. Nothing says ‘sophisticated’ like a noir in black and white, where women are dames and men are… quaintly macho.
I’m really enjoying the book — I’m about a quarter of the way through at the moment. I’m intrigued by authors taking a real-life event (or case, in this case) and weaving a fiction around it.
* He also recommended My Dark Places, Ellroy’s memoir about trying to to solve his mother’s murder.
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