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fullerov [Edit] [Delete] 18 replies 22:07, 24 May '06

I bought American Psycho last year and loved it.

I'm reading LTZ as well and that is topping AP for me.

Is it worth getting Glamorama and Lunar Park? I love the sparseness of his writing, the way he abrubtly ends chapters with the starkest of images.

Does he lose it basically, because i would feel a little crushed to read a bad BEE novel

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I still haven't read Glamorama or Lunar Park

I should get around to doing that.
sorry, that's not very helpful.
LTZ is brilliant though, isn't it?
yep.

homesick_alien | 24 May '06, 22:30 | X
- Yeh
  
  I am a bit special.
  
  less_than_zero @homesick_alien | 24 May '06, 22:45 | X
  - go you!
    
    homesick_alien @less_than_zero | 24 May '06, 22:45 | X
    - Go for The Informers
      
      next - vampires in California (before Joss Weedon too!)
      
      MEGAtron @homesick_alien | 24 May '06, 22:47 | X
      - Lunar Park
        
        is worth readng as a companion to American Pycho and is by some distance the best thing he has written since then. Glamorama is awful.
        
        Silentcommand @MEGAtron | 25 May '06, 00:00 | X
        
        I love the idea of American Psycho
        
        but the graphic detail in it was too much for me, I can't bring myself to read it again.
        
        The Rules of Attraction made me ANGRY. I hate that whole 'young people are fucked on drugs and have crazy sex' shit. The only thing I liked was the connection between that and American Psycho, I love cross-book links!
        
        nice_squirrel @Silentcommand | 25 May '06, 00:03 | X
        
        American Psycho
        
        is some nasty shit. Quite funny in places, but I certainly found it uncomfortable reading. I quite enjoyed Rules of Attraction, but mainly because I'd love to get away with being as much of an arsehole as Shaun Bateman.
        
        benrith @nice_squirrel | 25 May '06, 01:14 | X
        
        i, however, read it when i was 17
        
        and those were the best bits. theyre so imaginitive! the cheese in the cunt with the sewer rat and then chopping up the body with a chainsaw and hitting the rat while its inside her...
        ah
        bliss
        
        alcxxk @nice_squirrel | 25 May '06, 01:16 | X
        
        yeah
        
        that was the bit...
        
        nice_squirrel @alcxxk | 25 May '06, 01:16 | X
        
        i fucking loved them
        
        i held readings for the younger kids of it.
        
        alcxxk @nice_squirrel | 25 May '06, 01:18 | X
        
        I've only seen
        
        some of the film, but I'm guessing they skip that bit out yeah? Ewww....
        
        benrith @alcxxk | 25 May '06, 01:25 | X
        
        Ok
        
        so The Informers and Lunar Park will be read...
        
        (It was a given that i was gonna read The Rules of Attraction )
        
        fullerov @benrith | 25 May '06, 07:27 | X
        
        Ok
        
        The Informers Next
        
        fullerov @Glen_Chap | 25 May '06, 10:38 | X
        
        Glamorama isn't as good as other novels
        
        but is a nice piss take on superficiality and written in BEE's usual style, which if you enjoy, is worth the read...
        
        Rose-Kitten | 25 May '06, 10:42 | X

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