opinions on Bret Easton Ellis?
>>25348621like 3 decades irrelevant.same impact as if DFW were still alive with us.
Has this guy ever written a good sentence?
>>25348630who is relevant tho?
>>25348621writes the most vapid novels ever
>>25348644ask the zoomers
>>25348644yo mama
Bret, if you're reading this, why'd you coast all these years? Is the point of being a writer to make your career nut and just ride that clout till death?Even Christ resurrected before His first book deal was inked... sheesh
his podcast is great
>>25348621I loved the shards
>>25348621Less Than Zero > American Psycho. The latter is fun for le Bateman memes but the former covers the increasing degeneracy of elites who are above the law to ward off ennu to a T
>>25348972LTZ is >>25348646there is no reason to read it at all. nothing is "covered".
>>25348984>t. has 5 terabytes of CP and 20 different research chemicals
>>25348989LTZ has a CP erotica scene and you said you like the book, so
>>25349012why did norm ride so hard for munro?
>>25349018cuz she's canadian
>>25348657He wasted all these years trying to write scripts in hollywood (None were adapted)
>>25348990What do you think I was citing, dumbfuck. At least you read the books you hate on, that's more than 3/4ths of the people on this board
>>25348990>CP erotica sceneFrom what I remember it's a rape scene with an underage whore, and then there's a snuff video that's mostly implied. None of which is erotica?
>>25348644NJ Boor, JL Rose, TB Johnson
>>25349274some random fags
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>>25349042100% certain DFW would've ended the same.I think he blew his head off for the same rationale that Kurt Cobain did when he realized: "Here we are now, entertain us."They should've taught writers in writing school to exclusively use pen names and change them once they became too famous; the acclaim naturally poisons the well/ego of authenticity and paradoxically the strive for recognition/acclaim.(Plus I want to see if the writers themselves were as good as they think themselves or just lucky with the variables beyond their work...)
>>25348972True.<0 had more to say about the human condition than American Psycho; the former was a modern Paradise Lost while the latter was a meme book with dated social commentary about 80s psychopathic greed & narcissism (yawn).The latter was more "fun" than the former though (a gratuitous slog by the end but I think that was stylistically intended to wear out the audience with the book's gimmicks).
>>25348621I read American Psycho when I was 15 and loved it. I went back to him almost ten years later earlier this year and read Less Than Zero which I thought was great. The yawning black emptiness of the rich was portrayed so well and I genuinely felt a real sense of horror and dread in the last few chapters. I don't plan on reading any more of his books but I did enjoy what I've read
Lol
>>25350262>I read American Psycho when I was 15 and loved itdid you relate the kid at the zoo scene?
>>25350586what a degen
>>25350660Correct.
>>25350667>that time his drugged out twink boyfriend went on his twitter and crashed outBetter than when he was so drugged out he didn't know where he was and ended up breaking into the neighbor's place.
>>25350667didn't know I could lose even more respect for him
bump
A very gross person and a so-so writer.
>>25350676>>25350667based Bret, making snowflakes seethe
