A review by buddhafish
The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis

2.0

Pretty disappointing. My fourth BEE novel, and definitely the worst one yet. This was the first book published after American Psycho and that must have drained him, because this is nowhere near his normal standards. Definitely not a good example of Ellis at his top form. Some of the chapters were okay, some were damn right awful; the vampires chapter, for example, can just have a big 1 star label slapped onto it. There were, that I could see, two references to his previous books though. There was a DISAPPEAR HERE sign, like from Less Than Zero and in the final chapter in the zoo the protagonist says something about it being so quiet, someone could be murdered there. I am pretty sure Bateman kills a kid in a zoo in AP, so I guess he is referencing that, unless it's a happy coincidence.

I did, however, play Bret Easton Ellis bingo whilst reading this. I saw on Goodreads somewhere Murakami bingo and thought it was pretty funny, there are many writers who you could play the game with. So, this was everything in this book that I've seen before, that is ticked off the BEE Bingo:

- L.A.
- Valium
- Trump Tower
- Armani
- Psychiatrists
- Dead Animals
- MTV
- Affairs
- Bisexual Flirting
- Sex with Minors
- Killing Women
- GQ
- Cocaine