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A review by maanlijk
The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis
4.0
I decided to write a new, updated review of this book since I had an extended discussion about it with my teacher.
The critics in 1994 were very negative about this book and not having read American Psycho, I didn't know what to expect from Ellis' style I just started reading. Before you start reading, realise that in every chapter a new protagonist appears and his or her name isn't always obvious or even known. In the beginning, the people are shallow. L.A. Glamour including the Valium that's richly taken and the empty lives of most successful people. It made me think of The Catcher in the Rye, no explicit climax. And then you end it, remember the funnily absurd sex scenes & maybe smile a little and you put it back on your bookshelf. Was it worth 5€? Yes. I still think about i now and then, wonder why they made such bad decisions. Is this book shallow? No! Would a shallow book contain a boy thinking about death? And murder? And vampires? That's what all the teens are obsessed with. A vain Edward Cullen and a older Violet from AHS. This book was a progressive collection of story and if you are a human of your time, you will at least like a few (and it's okay to not like them all, because you don't like all the characters of a book either way?). I already read a story unknowingly in an English class years ago & I guess more teachers will let their youngsters read Ellis.
The critics in 1994 were very negative about this book and not having read American Psycho, I didn't know what to expect from Ellis' style I just started reading. Before you start reading, realise that in every chapter a new protagonist appears and his or her name isn't always obvious or even known. In the beginning, the people are shallow. L.A. Glamour including the Valium that's richly taken and the empty lives of most successful people. It made me think of The Catcher in the Rye, no explicit climax. And then you end it, remember the funnily absurd sex scenes & maybe smile a little and you put it back on your bookshelf. Was it worth 5€? Yes. I still think about i now and then, wonder why they made such bad decisions. Is this book shallow? No! Would a shallow book contain a boy thinking about death? And murder? And vampires? That's what all the teens are obsessed with. A vain Edward Cullen and a older Violet from AHS. This book was a progressive collection of story and if you are a human of your time, you will at least like a few (and it's okay to not like them all, because you don't like all the characters of a book either way?). I already read a story unknowingly in an English class years ago & I guess more teachers will let their youngsters read Ellis.