Brett Easton Ellis

[Like_Herod]

I've just finished reading 'Less Than Zero' which was my third Brett Easton Ellis book after 'American Psycho' and 'Rules of Attraction'.

As with the other two, I quite enjoyed it, despite the lack of an obvious plot and the sparse nature of the prose. The amoral nature of the characters was, as with the others, nothing short of disturbing but at least this time there was the suggestion that Clay wasn't complete empty, with him leaving LA at the end in search of something (though he didn't know what). I also enjoyed Clay's fixation with the billboard that reads 'disappear here'.

I'd be interested to know what anyone else thinks of this or any of Ellis' other work.

[catatonic]

I wasn't terribly impressed with American Psycho but I admit that morbid curiosity, the sort of pull movies about the mob exert on the public, led me to it. And as my curiosity has been sated it's doubtful that I would reread American Psycho.

[MTA]

I, too, read American Psycho out of morbid curiosity as a young teen. At the time I was appalled by it, but just utterly fascinated.

In retrospect I think Ellis was too obscure in proposing what he meant with it all, to the point that on a subsequent reading I strongly disliked it and struggled to finish it.