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My final read of 2024. Bret Easton Ellis does it AGAIN!
It's unbelievable how every work of his finds new ways to be incredibly bleak & disturbing...some of the violence in this matches American Psycho for sure.
If his works were relevant in the 90's, they're even more so now -and I just love that he is not afraid to be fucking WEIRD about it!
Ultimately, Glamorama feels like a culmination of everything else he's published until this one - which is to say, it feels like Ellis is circling the same ideas around celebrity, consumerism, wealth, culture, identity, commodification & over & over & over again he’s getting more desperate for it to possess the reader the way it’s clearly possessing him!!!
It's unbelievable how every work of his finds new ways to be incredibly bleak & disturbing...some of the violence in this matches American Psycho for sure.
If his works were relevant in the 90's, they're even more so now -and I just love that he is not afraid to be fucking WEIRD about it!
Ultimately, Glamorama feels like a culmination of everything else he's published until this one - which is to say, it feels like Ellis is circling the same ideas around celebrity, consumerism, wealth, culture, identity, commodification & over & over & over again he’s getting more desperate for it to possess the reader the way it’s clearly possessing him!!!