by Bret Easton Ellis
Note: The review below was taken from my Goodreads account. "No one ever likes the right person," I say."That's not true," he says. "I like you."That's not exactly what I meant or wanted to hear, but I ask him earnestly, "Do you?"There's a pause. "Sure. Why not?" he says. I really like Ellis's w...
I started off with high expectations of this book, and at the start I was enjoying the book, but by the end it was a bit of a struggle, thus the three stars.The book was well constructed and well written. The idea of seeing the same scene from different perspectives, and following on one scene to th...
I preferred the movie. i never prefer the movie.
The Rules of Attraction is one of the rare exceptions to my belief that books are always better than their film adaptations. I watched the film when it was first released in 2002 and loved it! (The DVD is now part of my collection.) But I didn't read the book until December 2010. I should've waited ...
Ah, Camden College. My first references to it came through Ellis' other books, but I soon found out about how it links authors Donna Tartt and Jill Eisenstadt, and apparently Jonathan Lethem too. 'From Rockaway' was my first real introduction to the Camden, it wasn't a fantastic book, but decent, so...
Manic and not very likeable. It follows the (love - though that is hardly the word) lives of a group of students at a New England university in 1985s. It opens mid sentence and unfolds in frantic chunks, focusing on different characters. It's certainly frank about sex and drugs etc, but it's not as ...
Ellis is one of those authors that seems to grow in stature as time marches on. i see him on so many Favorite Author lists and i just have to roll my eyes a bit. personally, he'll always be the author i laughed at on a regular basis: hilariously pretentious and embarrassingly convinced that pretensi...
I read this book because my stepson wanted me to. I gave him the wonderful book The Last Convertible by Anton Myrer some time ago, and he read that and this back to back. Not surprisingly, he experienced some cognitive dissonance because of it. I found this book, the first I've read by Ellis, to be ...
As much as I thought of Less Than Zero, nothing else Ellis ever wrote had the same impact. Eventually it all just seemed to be whinging and whining.
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