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Title: Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis ISBN: 0-375-70384-5 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 21 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.31 (278 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: entertaining and challenging (which scares some people off)
Comment: Most writers today seem faced with the choice of writing somthing original and intelligent or writing something entertaining. With Glamorama, Ellis does both. The book challenges and confuses the reader with odd plot twists, strange symbolism, and an idiot for a narrator. But few people seem to recognize the admirable feat Ellis has accomplished in pulling this off - how do you communicate a relatively sophisticated message through the medium of shallowness and stupidity? Ellis seems to have found the answer, and has polished his novel with the satiric and often macabre humor that seems to be characteristic (those readers who have read American Psycho will not be disappointed with Pat Bateman's brief appearance). That said, Glamorama is not for everybody. It's a book to be read not so much for its plot - Ellis' writing skills outstrip his talent for fictional invention - as for the other things: writing style, characterization, symbolism and metaphor, and (most importantly) humor. Plus Ellis can end a book, which is a rare skill even among the greatest writers. Don't reject it right away - give it a chance, and then see what you think.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Horror Novel?
Comment: I consider myself a fan of Mr. Ellis' writing. Each of his books has a different point of satire, and each skewers its target mercilessly. Glamorama surpassed surpassed all of his works before it.
This is, without a doubt, one of the most horrific, hilarious, and many other words starting with "h" novels I have ever read.
Victor Ward and his "friends" are everything I've ever dreamed and feared New York City society is like. At first, the book seems to be about quite possibly the most insipid male model in history. But Ellis had a lot more in his sights: what celebrity does to our perceptions of ourselves; how we can let ourselves become passengers in our own lives; and how we've become inured to violence in the media and movies.
This book has such an incredibly slowly developed sense of menace and spiraling insanity, that I didn't even realize it was there until it was already too late. Which is exactly what happens to Victor in the novel.
I'll say this. I read this every morning on the subway into work, and found myself alternatingly cackling with laughter, and clutching the handstrap for support. I don't think I've ever had such a visceral reaction to a book before.
One of the most shocking, surprising, novels I've ever read. It's definitely not for the easily queasy, but otherwise, I cannot recommend it enough.
*A little note: I'd also recommend reading Rules of Attraction before picking this up.
Rating: 5
Summary: brilliant
Comment: This is the best book I have ever read. It was so out of control and engrossing I couldn't stop reading it. The confusion, heathenism, specs and stench is all too much.
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Title: The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis ISBN: 067978148X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Informers by BRET EASTON ELLIS ISBN: 0679743243 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis ISBN: 0679781498 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis ISBN: 0679735771 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 06 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Diary: A Novel by CHUCK PALAHNIUK ISBN: 0385509472 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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