Lunar Park
The author of American Psycho rips into his most frightening subject yet: himself
The author of American Psycho rips into his most frightening subject yet: himself
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780330536332 (0330536338)
Publish date: April 1st 2011
Publisher: Picador Usa
Pages no: 453
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
Literature,
American,
Mystery,
Culture,
Contemporary,
College,
Thriller,
Horror,
Dark
Sadly this is the least scary of any of the Ellis books I've read - mostly due to the choice to make the protagonist an alternate Bret Easton Ellis and to try to make him acknowledge his emotions. I could have gotten more into a book with the same plot but a regular, non famous non meta character so...
Sadly this is the least scary of any of the Ellis books I've read - mostly due to the choice to make the protagonist an alternate Bret Easton Ellis and to try to make him acknowledge his emotions. I could have gotten more into a book with the same plot but a regular, non famous non meta character so...
Here we go again, me gathering up more bad review karma. When I finally publish my book, I'm gonna get slaughtered with payback I'm sure.I was very excited to dive into Lunar Park when I read about it for two reasons. First and foremost, I wanted to see BEE's treatment of the meta-fiction component ...
Finally a book from BBE which doesn't depend on loving descriptions of dismemberment to make its point. And occasional people with feelings.
What started as a meta-fictional autobiography became a surreal horror novel. The only other book by Bret Easton Ellis I'd read before had been 'Less Than Zero' so I did not catch all of the references before some were explained in-book, others you have to figure out for yourself.The novel begins wi...
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