invaderlinz 's review for:

Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis

3.0

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"The better you look, the more you see."

I'm usually a big fan of Ellis' work, but this one was just much too long. The book is divided into 6 sections, and truthfully section one could've been cut out completely or at least half the size. It follows the normal Hollywood lifestyle of drugs, sex, and name-dropping of celebrities, but it just goes on for too long in the beginning. I found myself skipping over big chunks that were just lists of celebrity names, and it really didn't add anything to the story. If you can get through that first section though, this turns into the wildest acid trip of a story and I was not expecting one bit of it. Somehow it becomes a terrorist/spy/murder/thriller and I'm not even sure how it did, but it did. Once things started to take a turn for the worst for Victor, our main guy, I couldn't put it down. Victor is truly a garbage human being so in a way it was nice to see things not going his way for once. I really couldn't wrap my mind around a lot of what was happening, but it was a thrill ride for the last few sections that took my breath away. Still not really sure what I read, but if nothing else, it was ambitious.