Tuesday, July 14, 2009

I think I found myself a new favorite author.


Lunar Park, written by Bret Easton Ellis, is about a famous, coke-snorting novelist named Bret Easton Ellis, who decides to slow down his life a little bit by moving to the suburbs with his new wife and children. And then Patrick Bateman, the wall-street serial killer from his previous novel, American Psycho, shows up at his halloween party. And then the murders start happening. Little boys keep disappearing (his neighbor thinks they've gone to Never Neverland), and the emails from his dead father won't stop. And then there's his little daughter's Terby doll, which may or may not have mutilated a horse when left alone in an abandoned field...

Less Than Zero is Bret Easton Ellis' first novel, about a boy named Clay who drifts through his first christmas vacation back home in Los Angeles, where he does an incessant amount of cocaine, floats in an out of nightclubs and movie theaters and swimming pools, finds a dead body in an alleyway and feels nothing, clogs up the toilet bowl with bloody wads of kleenex, sleeps with blond boys and tanned girls, watches his friends dabble in heroin and child-pornography, and is haunted by a billboard that simply says: Disappear Here.

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