books by Bret Easton Ellis

books by Bret Easton Ellis

books:

Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis

Vintage, 1995

Outstanding, yet least read book by BEE
Each chapter, or should I say story, of this book is very well written. Each character has a different voice, and all stories are interested. I have trouble trying to understand why this book is not more popular amongst readers and BEE fans alike.

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

Picador, 2000

An engaging social satire
I relaxed on my Ethan Allen couch to read Bret Easton Ellis's late-1980's Manhattan-of-yuppie-excess thriller, American Psycho. I had to put it down to dine on quail sashimi with peach ravioli and baby soft-shell crabs with grape jelly, and after dinner I noted that ...

Less Than Zero

Bret Easton Ellis

Vintage, 1998

Ignore the movie version, read the book, it's (unfortunately) pitch-perfect
Ellis is an expert at chronicling the callow consumerism and nihilism of a particular breed of American wealth. He hits it here. These characters aren't at all overblown. They are incredibly shallow. They are exactly as shallow as they would be if they were actually ...

Lunar Park

Bret Easton Ellis

Vintage, 2006

Ellis delivers again
I found this to be one of the most bizarre, creative, and entertaining books I've ever read. It's so hard to describe, though, that I've had to leave and come back to this review a dozen times! Ellis, who shot to what was really unprecedented stardom in both ...

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

Vintage, 1991

This Is NOT An Exit
'American Psycho' is a satire of the 1980's (among other subjects) centered around narrator Patrick Bateman who is the yuppie-to-end-all-yuppies. Though the humor is as dark as possible, it's true to Ellis and true to the story. I cannot find any failure whatsoever ...

The Rules of Attraction

Bret Easton Ellis

Vintage, 1998

Perfectly Written
After reading "Less Than Zero" I was excited to give another Bret Easton Ellis novel a try, and this turned out to be one of those books I never wanted to end. Every page was full of something interesting and thought provoking and what at times seemed shocking also ...

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

MacMillan, 1997

Don't look at it through your own eyes.
I've read various Amazon readers' American Psycho reviews over the past couple years and find that most of them either loved or hated the book. Most of them get that the author is using satire and most of them can describe for you a nice summary, including the crux of ...

AMERICAN PSYCHO (PICADOR THIRTY)
BRET EASTON ELLIS

PICADOR, 2002

Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries)

Bret Easton Ellis

Vintage, 2000

You have to read the whole book
Yes, it does seem like a lot of name dropping and hipsterisms in the opening hundred pages or so, but that is just laying the foundation for the huge story to come. This is probably my all time favorite novel, way better than American Psycho.