Lunar Park doesn’t seem to be an out-and-out hit, if the Goodreads rating is to be used as a meter, but I quite enjoyed it.
Tag: bret easton ellis
There is a sort of voyeuristic allure to Bret Easton Ellis novels for me. For whatever reason, I love to read about hypersexual nihilists with far too much money and far too much access to cocaine.
In my opinion, there is a limit to the amount of ambiguity that a story can sustain. If you cross the limit, it goes from being interesting and mind-bendy to just making the reader feel a bit slow.
Picture a bunch of rich people with too much time on their hands, too many drugs at their disposal and a severe lack of empathy.
An over-the-top satire on Wall Street culture, rife with brand name obsessions, spectacular misogyny and, of course, murder.