The Shards - Bret Easton Ellis BOOK REVIEW (Part 2 of 2)
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2023
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So someone who says a writer is self-indulgent is a communist?😅 (Have never read Ellis, am just bemused by Americans' obsession with communists and their love for using the term as an insult)
I am glad we getting some longer reviews
This all reminds me of the old adage "California is America's America.
One of the most insightful reviews I’ve ever seen on anything. Amazing work!!!
I just finished this book and first thought that made me laugh was the way the narrator described in detail the freeways he took to get around and the SNL skit called The Californians that spoofed that culture.
Based Cliff as always.
Has everyone got a different edition of Less Than Zero to me? I found it the most boring book ever (apart from The Doors of Perception)..
I just finished the book today and as a fan of BEE’s novels and his podcast, I’m left wondering; “what’s the point?”
I was able to finish American Psycho when I had nothing else to read & saw it in the theater & "enjoyed" parts & Wm DeFoe's portrayal of the detective character.
Ellis captured the ambience of the dingy clubs in the 80’s,down to the sticky floors.I have been praising this book and feel it has fallen on deaf ears. Thank you for spotlighting this magnificent work! Have you read “Babysitter” by Joyce Carol Oates? I thought it was also an excellent,undervalued piece of work in a similar vein.
I wouldn’t have thought when I read it when it first came out in January that it would all these months later remain one of the strongest and best books of the year, but here we are. This, Heaven & Earth Grocery Store and Tom Lake are all excellent works by writers at the top of their form and creating master works of their careers.
Thanks for the articulate and fierce approach as always Cliff. ✌
I feel like all your videos have such a great perspective in all the books you review, all of them are in such a great analysis and feels like you never lose Your parameter of quality, such an amazing job you do in here, thank you Clifford for always giving us this kinds of beauty love you man ❤
Once again you've made a great review... And added another book to my TBR
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Two great reviews. I've been on the fence about reading this, but you've convinced me.
The description of LA makes me think of the film Babylon
Great review dude. Undoubtedly want to pick this up now
love your takes, from London
Very astute insights into this book. A lot of 80's writers being numb to life was a theme Jay McInerny in Bright Lights, Big City as well. It was also reflected in songs, The Goo-Goo Dolls (which isn't quite the era) but have the line "you bleed just to know you're alive." Also, Ellis' obsessions with numbness and serial killers was also present in The Doors with The End, The Crystal Ship, and Riders on the Storm (among others) didn't mean to go off on a musical bent, but maybe L.A. itself is creating those themes, which you I think you may have suggested. I think a lot of guys would risk having sex with someone they thought was really hot even if they thought they may be a serial killer. Just some thoughts off the top of my head. Excellent review.