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Summary: Nothing new to see here, move along please
Review: If someone asked me to describe what I thought of the book in 10 words or less, I would use the title. I've only read "Less Than Zero" and "American Psycho" of which I prefer the latter. I liked the latter because it had a point it was trying to make, and I could relate in some ways to the main character. However, in this book, the main character is an airhead, and the whole book is a list of celebrities. I mean, having the fashion list was kind of cool and had a point when accentuated by the band essays in "Psycho," but this time it was too much. It's like Ellis thought "they loved the lists in 'Psycho,' so I will just add more." His next book will be just one big list of names from GQ or Vogue. As for the book around the lists, which I kept skimming (I almost wanted to read them thoroughly simply to see if he ever repeated a name) is funny and bouncy, though obscure. I like the surreal, hell I've read "Naked Lunch" and loved it, but this one needs to be buried as a failed experiment in slapschtick. Explore "Psycho" or "Less Than Zero" first, save this one when you're bored, or just need a good, irritating laugh.
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Summary: What???!!!!!!
Review: I love reading. But, if this were the first book I had ever read, I would be turned off reading forever! I knew Bret Easton Ellis doesn`t write for the ¨Norm¨ after reading American Psycho (which I did like), but Glamorama loses it!. The book has no plot that makes sense. It jumps from being an almost logical story to one that seems like the author was having a major drug trip! Nothing is explained, there is no climax, no start and no finish. I don`t recommend this book at all.
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Summary: What the f...
Review: This book freaked me out, I felt compleetly lost, the few days it took me to read this book! And when I wasn't reading, I was walking around pondering Victors life, and the whole 'filming a movie' thing! At night I even had dreams about certain scenes in the book! When I was finished I was actually a bit pi**ed off about the wierd double ending, and the fact that I couldnt get the book out of my head! It's an EXCELLENT read!!
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Summary: I just didn't get it
Review: I was totally captivated by this book and at times had a hard time putting it down, but have little idea of what was going on. Please feel free to shed some light...
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Summary: try this.
Review: the style is great, the portrait of the unbearable fashion world of the 90s perfect, the plot, ok, is a little bit trembling and the conclusion is a little bit confused. To all the 1 star rater I suggest 'Invisible monster' by Chuck Palahniuk. Similar world , amazing characters. Shorter , with a genial, totally hilaryous plot.
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Summary: Not quite up to par
Review: If you're thinking about reading Glamorama, you've probably read other titles by Bret Easton Ellis. This story is told through the eyes of Victor, an aesthetically perfect model with proclivities for binge-drinking, promiscuity and cocaine. he is balancing life with a steady girlfriend, all the while sleeping with the girl of his "best" friend and business partner. The story begins in New York, and at first it seems to be a vintage Ellis yarn. The plot soon thickens, however, and the character of Victor (he never quite jumps off the page) is plunged into an almost video-game scenario. I won't give too much away. If you've read Rules of Attraction or Less Than Zero, then I would recommend Glamorama. It is, for the most part, highly stylized and descriptive, with half of the book focusing on who's who and what they're wearing, but the story becomes dilluted and dragging and just plain odd, ending up making less sense than American Psycho (There is a quick little reference to the character of Patrick Bateman, which is funny).
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Summary: Appreciating style is the key to appreciating this book
Review: Did I like this book? No, not really. Did I get it? No, not at all. Do I understand what he was trying to do? Sort of. Were parts of it disturbingly grotesque? Yes, absolutely. Was I bored out of my mind for dozens if not hundreds of pages at a time? Yes. So all this means I won't be reading any more Easton-Ellis novels, right? WRONG! I can't wait to purchase and read another one. WHY? Style. In the same vein that Stanely Kubrick made his movies...or Aerosmith plays their music, so does Easton-Ellis write his books. Say what you will about Kubrick and Aerosmith (strickly used as examples), but these entertainers had/have VERY unique styles that are, at the least, intriguing. After seeing "2001 A Space Odyssey", you would never see another Kubrick movie again without knowing that it was Kubrick. Similarly, after hearing Steven Tyler's voice, you would never mistake it again. (If you ever see Kubrick and Aerosmith compared similarly again, let me know! :) Too many entertainers go through the motions and never develop a unique style - good or bad, and that's what I look for - just something different, something unique. If you like different and unique too, then you'll like this book. This book is intriguing for it's style. I didn't enjoy the book for it's story, character, etc., but for the amazing style of writing that is unmistakingly Easton-Ellis.
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Summary: Don't Bother
Review: This was the first book I read by Mr. Ellis and if this is any example of the rest of his work, please allow me to say "Don't Bother!" I found his writing to be jumpy and disjointed and relatively childlike in nature. There are about 1,000 subplots to the book that are never resolved and truth be told, I was never sure what the real plot was (if there was one to begin with!). The book reads like a who's who in early 1990's celeb circles. Mr. Ellis seems to want to make his readers know that he knows who's "in" and lists everyone from Kelsey Grammer to Bobby Flay. I shudder to think that all models/actors in the world are as shallow, idiotic and whiny as he represented them in his book.
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Summary: Deeply disturbing
Review: This book, although fascinating, is one of the most disturbing things I have ever read. I reached a point, and you will know where it is, where I locked this book in my roll-top desk and literally did not touch it, except to move it downstairs, for a month. It is a strange book, a painful book, a disturbing, haunting book, but a good book. It is the type of book you can read for hours and not notice the passage of time. I would recommend this to anyone with an open mind and a penchant for the strange.
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Summary: Very violent and shocking but something to think about it!
Review: This novel starts - I wouldnt call it boring - but some kind of lazy. The models, actors are hanging around, talking about that guy who wears that fantastic new Gucci-sunglasses and that's it. Subjects like that are the main thing in the first 30 pages. Victor Ward (the main character) is one of that guys who believes human being is about only fashion. He only gets in contact with people through rumors and TV. Then suddenly as everything in his life is going to break down: his career, his relationship - he gets an bizarre telefon call. He should travel to London to find a woman. As he gets to London, he find the woman but then gets in contact, yes you've heard right with terrorist which were models and actresses. Together they kill people, put up bombs. And the main theme is: Why? Why are the doing this? They got it all: money, drugs... And, in my opinion, and that's maybe also the intention of B.E. Ellis: there's just NO REASON!! They didn't got anything else to do. It's some kind of weird game.
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