Quote:
Originally posted by str8outavannuys
What part of AP did it for you? The threesome with the two hookers he ends up killing with a nail gun? Or when he makes his girlfriend eat the urinal cake covered in chocolate?
str(big Bret Easton Ellis fan myself, seriously)8
|
The only thing I dug about AP was the protagonist's suits. I recall thinking "Damn, that cat's got sweeeeet threads." I almost bought a double breasted job because of that flick, then I came to my senses. You gotta appreciate the spread collars they all wear. We Americans can't dress for shit - the point collar is an abomination.
Less than Zero was boring. "We're rich, we're decadent, we're wild... we're dead." Fitzgerald did that bit nearly a century ago 100X better. You have to be nuts to try to rewrite Gatsby in Bev Hills and make everyone a cokehead. Contrived.
AP was a much better read. I plowed through that over a weekend at the beach and couldn't put it down. Wasn't great writing, wasn't a great story, but Ellis turned the shock meter to 11 on that one... When the protagonist offed the kid in the zoo I said "Jesus, fuck this guy's got no soul." Then I realized, that's exactly what Ellis wanted - revulsion at both the protagonist and the novelist... smart way to make a wheelbarrow full of dough...
