![]() ![]() There was one bookshop in East Grinstead, which doubled up as a coffee shop. So to humour him, I said, "What would you recommend?" He told me to start with 'The Black Dahlia'. But Eric was a serious bloke – and a passionate one to boot. A colleague called Eric started waffling about a reading by this weird American writer who autographed books with drawings of dicks and referred to himself as "The White Knight of the Far Right". I remember the day I first heard about it – on a smelly train carriage in East Grinstead in March 1994. ![]() But James Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia' was something else entirely, far more than just a great book. ![]() A great book is one that makes me re-evaluate what I'm doing, dig deeper, try harder, raise my own bar. As a reader I define a book as "great" if I'm still thinking about it long after I've finished it. ![]()
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