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Summary: One of the best of the year
Review: A cool mix of celebrity baiting and international terrorism centering on a self absorbed young man. After reading it I still don't know what to believe or what may or may not have happend. Worth the look and BEE keeps getting better and better. Hopefully it won't take years for the next book.
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Summary: Vapid from start to finish
Review: Utterly empty, recycled waste from Ellis's overcoked, melancholic mind. So poor I couldn't even bring myself to read it. Send this man an idea, pleeeeze, he's been eating too many magazines.
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Summary: A world where everyone is a dispensable commodity
Review: Glamorama is extremely polished, funny, dark and cruel. Taking you from a world that is shallow but harmless to a world that is shallow and deadly, a world where even your children are dispensable commodities.Or has it always been that way?. Its impossible to put down, so much so, at the end you are left with such a mass of unsettled questions it takes a full day to really put it all together.It's a book for those who want a bit more than just a story.Glamorama is possibly one of the best books I've read.
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Summary: Mass Media is Terrorism
Review: The most boring and incredibly stupid book i have ever found to be overwhelmingly compelling. The unreality of models as terrorists makes you realize that it's not to far from the truth. His best book and a classic.
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Summary: Ellis is true to form in this entertaining novel....
Review: Glamorama. One of the better novels of the '90's. A ferocious depiction of the insanities enveloping our culture. Ellis is true genius in Glamorama. Recommmended highly for the intelligent, open minded reader with a stomach for the surreal...
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Summary: All over the place
Review: Perhaps I'm nitpicking, but the thing that bugged me most about this book was its maddingly inconsistent pop culture references. It's abundantly clear that BEE had to have spent the majority of the past decade writing this thing (obviously the New York parts were written in the early '90s), given how different portions of the book focus on so many cultural icons with firmly cemented, and specific, popularity periods in the 1990s (as but one example, take the frequent references to Nirvana -- popular in 1992-1994 -- in the Manhattan portions, and to Oasis -- popular in 1996-1998 -- in the London/Paris parts). One question: how can Tupac Shakur, who died in 1996, be portrayed as still-living in the narrative (he's mentioned as a guest at a party) while Princess Diana, who died in 1997, is portrayed as deceased?Aside from all that, "Glamorama" is undeniably thought-provoking. After this and "American Psycho," one has to wonder what unchartered frontier of quease-inducing prose Ellis will arrive at in his next novels. A six-page gang rape and torture of a toddler perhaps? Still, the violence may be ridiculously over the top, but his commentary on the vapidness of celebrity culture is a direct hit.
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Summary: simply brilliant
Review: how could bret easton ellis go wrong? this book has it all - action, humour, and drama. Most definately the best book I have read in a long time.
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Summary: Perfect writer for the 90's
Review: To understand the rise of Ellis, you have to understand modern publishing -- the more controversial the better. Ellis is the literary world's posterboy for controversy. And he'll stay there because controversy sells, especially to those elusive, non-reading but well-heeled 18 to 34-year-olds who will depart with their brass only if the experience of doing so fortifies and furthers their deeply-held desire of never appearing anything but cuurent and cutting-edge. So very 90's. The culture of immediacy. Forget talent. Forget art. Forget the days of old when authors wrote to bare their souls or change the world or both. In publishing, the risk is to over-shoot your mark, to miss the connect. So you meet your target audience head on and feed them the sensations they crave. Ellis is the pure reflection and product of our techno-age -- shallow, immediate, without heart, signifying nothing redemptive. And shouldn't that be the goal? Shouldn't we expect more?
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Summary: after UNDERWORLD, it's the key american novel of the decade
Review: Absolutely brilliant. I was shocked because I have read all of ELLIS's books and I have not been too unimpressed. As a novelist, he has been getting better with age - LESS THAN ZERO is about that and AMERICAN PSYCHO is way overrated by its defenders. But GLAMORAMA is a stunning book - it lures you into a sense of complacency with the first couple of hundred pages (we think we know where ELLIS is taking us) but then it takes an out-of-left field turn into KAFKA territory exposing the fascist undercurrent of celebrity culture in a mind-bending and unexpected way. Hate him or praise him - he wears the Prada clothes, so you don't have to!
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Summary: Live the hyper-reality!
Review: Glarorama is an amazingly rich work that most people won't be able to follow. Any reader who can't allow for a story to flow between realism, satire, horror and insanity should stay away. Ellis, much like director Paul Verhoeven, deals in a hyper reality where the thoughts and intents and textures are more important than any commitment to making a bland recreation of the world we see around us. Ellis is interested in the deeper meaning, below the surface of things
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