Bret Easton Ellis Survey

[Mark Kohut]

I think Brett Easton Ellis is definitely worth reading.
  1st. He can write. For real. "in the destructive element, he immerses" [Conrad]
   
  I was peripherally involved with Less Than Zero upon publication, still a dark, stark look at the extreme nihilism(?) to which American culture, led by LA, led its children. It is in my mind related to one thing Pynchon focuses on in GR---the killing of (our) kids. I can remember reading with horror in suburban Chicago, with a new young family, soon to grow
  up to be these kids ages.
   
  American Psycho: The hate behind 'success', behind those who control, make our money.
  Could be another out of Pynchon's mold, in a loose, associative way. Vicious satire--the only kind that cuts these days; over-the-top events presented deceptively straight-on. 
   
  My 2 cents.
   
   
  

Daniel Julius <daniel.julius at gmail.com> wrote:
  Thank you, guys.  I remain pretty unpersuaded


       
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