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Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park
 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2005-10-20 14:55 [#01755662]
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Just finished reading this book. Fucking awesome. Really
enjoyed. So well written. Very simple story but
fantastically told.

Has anyone else read/heard of it?


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2005-10-20 15:36 [#01755703]
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I might read it soon. Right now I'm reading American Psycho
(pretty vile, really) and I just finished Glamorama, so I'll
probably wait a while before I start Lunar Park. I like his
style a lot.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-10-20 20:54 [#01755947]
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there have been a few threads about it already, mr. New
Search Engine Tester.. :)


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2005-10-20 23:34 [#01755994]
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I love both those books. Haven't read either for a while but
I may do so again.

qrter: Didn't even bother checking because I assumed there
wouldn't be :D


 

offline uviol from United States on 2005-10-20 23:51 [#01755997]
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American Psycho is amazing. I loved both the book and the
movie. I hope you agree! I'd like to get his new book, but I
have enough assigned reading that I don't get around to as
it is..


 

offline nlogax from oh, you must be the brains (Norway) on 2005-10-20 23:59 [#01755999]
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I'm gonna get it when I'm done reading the two, no THREE
books I'm currently reading. I need one for each
mood/occasion/sexual position/etc.


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-10-21 03:21 [#01756081]
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its brilliant, especially the juxaposition of the sex scenes
with the murders


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2005-10-21 03:24 [#01756083]
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Still waiting to move in so I can't afford it till
Tuesday... mildly excited.


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2005-10-21 06:23 [#01756233]
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uviol: I wasn't too keen on the movie. I felt it changed
things unnecessarily and added little tings that ruined bits
of the book. The actual look was spot on in my opinion but
little things were annoying.

nlogax: Damn boy, where've you been?

Jar: It's good mate. It's good :D


 

offline swears from junk sleep on 2005-10-21 08:02 [#01756369]
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Yeah, I liked it. I made a thread two weeks ago about it.
Some of the bits in the "biography" at the start are made up
and some aren't. I thought that was quite funny.


 

offline Sclah from Freudian Slipmat on 2005-10-21 11:37 [#01756731]
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I loved Amercian Psycho, perhaps I'll pick this up the next
time I'm looking for reading material.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-10-21 12:15 [#01756773]
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doesn't he say in this new book that all the killings in
"American psycho" are fantasies of Bateman and that he
thought that was quite obvious?

I remember reading that somewhere.


 

offline swears from junk sleep on 2005-10-21 12:19 [#01756778]
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Yeah, but Bret Easton Ellis in the book is a fictious,
exagerated version of himself. So you can't take anything he
says in the novel as fact.
These people were reviewing the book on radio four, and
actually believed that he had introduced videos on MTV for a
week during the mid-eighties!


 

offline uviol from United States on 2005-10-21 12:37 [#01756811]
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yes, it was deliciously depraved, no doubt.

giginger: the exact plot details that were changed edude me
at the moment, other than the compression many, many murders
into a small number of tamer incidents. But like you said,
the film's cinematography was beautifully done.. atmospheric
and artificial. I also thought Christian Bale did a
fantastic job playing the sort of edgy professional about to
snap.


 

offline Sclah from Freudian Slipmat on 2005-10-21 12:46 [#01756818]
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Christian Bale rules.
Everybody must see The Machinist


 


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