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Bret Easton Ellis...overrated or genius?

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  • 13-01-2006 3:42am
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    TheVan
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    Once hailed as the voice of a generation, is Bret Easton Ellis still a great writer in work such as Lunar Park or has he lost his relevancy since the heady days of Rules of Attraction, Less Than Zero and American Psycho?

    Personally I thought that Lunar Park was a work of genius until he tried to explain why all of the various events were happening to him....i felt it was all better left to the imagination rather than trying to quantify the supernatural events.


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    Valmont
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    He is definitely brilliant. In no way would I consider him overrated. One just has to see how deep American Psycho reaches. To someone easily shocked it just seems like pornography but when you understand it in its entirety, it is amazing what he has done. A very clever writer.


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    After passing over it so many times, bought AP lately and about a third of the way through. It is engrossing, disturbing, entertaining...excellent stuff.

    Is all his stuff as good? Is it all written in the same style?


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    TheVan
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    I personally loved the Rules of Attraction and Lunar Park, good to see some replies to this thread, it was ignored for a long time!


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    I have read and now I believe.

    AP is breathtaking and disgusting, repulsive but addictive, brutal but glib, deep yet superficial - it's amazing. Nearly had to put it down to catch breath. It has completely changed my views on literature, and fiction in general - I was tired of fiction and plot lines and characters and beginnings middles and ends and twists and all that stuff. I heard all the hype and didn't believe it, but in fact it doesn't do it justice.


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