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Bret Easton Elis
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
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.
Yeh
I am a bit special.
go you!
Go for The Informers
next - vampires in California (before Joss Weedon too!)
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.
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!
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.
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
yeah
that was the bit...
i fucking loved them
i held readings for the younger kids of it.
I've only seen
some of the film, but I'm guessing they skip that bit out yeah? Ewww....
Ok
so The Informers and Lunar Park will be read...
(It was a given that i was gonna read The Rules of Attraction )
Ok
The Informers Next
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...