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The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis
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The Informers (original 1994; edition 1994)

by Bret Easton Ellis

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Capturing the lives of a group of people in Los Angeles, 'The Informers' is an intense narrative that blurs genders, generations and even identities. They are connected in the only way people can be in LA - suffering from nothing less than the death of the soul.
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The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis (1994)

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as if this book couldn't get more disappointing, timothy price is revealed as blond and blue-eyed. ( )
  blueshorts | Jan 26, 2024 |


A Pokol, Breat Easton Ellis univerzumában: Los Angeles. Valiumtól kába bukott angyalok korzóznak a pálmafák alatt, üres szemű, napbarnított szőkéket invitálnak egy italra, a hőségben remeg a levegő, a Porsche motorja agresszíven beböffen, és mindenki előre unja már az egészet, a beszélgetést, ami a dugás előtt van, a dugás utáni csendet, sőt, a dugást magát. Itt a szenvedés rafinált: kapsz végtelen sok pénzt, csak azon kapod magad, hogy nem tudsz mit kezdeni vele. Olyan ez, mint valami késő XX. századi Tantalusz-parafrázis, ahol eszközeid vannak egy jobb életre, csak kedved nincs, hogy élj velük.

(Megjegyzem, akkor szembesültem azzal, hogy Ellis micsoda pazar író, amikor olvasás közben elfelejtettem, hogy ez a szöveg voltaképpen irodalom, amit "csak" egy író írt. El tudja hitetni, hogy ezt a mérgező, szörnyű világot nem teremtette, hanem csak közvetíti. Kellemetlen, néha fájdalmas olvasni, minden porcikám tiltakozik, hogy akár csak közelítőleg valóságnak fogadjam el ezt a teret, de tekintve, hogy ez a vélelmezhető írói célnak tökéletesen megfelel, csak ámulni tudok Ellis képességein.) ( )
  Kuszma | Jul 2, 2022 |
wanted to love this but was awfully boring and confusing. skipped pages of boring run on sentences. the horrific portion was OK but not worth the wait. I loved lunar park; American psycho and glamorama. but this....is a whole other world of weird and boring. I missed the point of it? no story line...no plot... just self Absorbed strangely fake LA people. then two random vampires appear briefly and then disappear. no characters evolved or stick out as memorable.. and then the "book" just stops so abruptly without any resolution. spent the enter time trying to figure out who the freaking narrative was...almost gave up! I think Ellis enjoyed torturing his fans with this crap!! ( )
  XoVictoryXo | May 31, 2016 |
This book didn't turn out to be as great as I expected. While I found it a fairly entertaining read, mostly due to the setting and the characters and their crazy lifestyles, it didn't do that much for me story-wise. The fact that I didn't read it straight through didn't help. The book consists of loosely interconnected stories, and I kept getting the characters confused whenever I started on a new one. Still, this is my first Bret Easton Ellis novel, and I'd still like to try some of his other works. ( )
  thioviolight | Oct 29, 2014 |
Collection of short stories set in LA in the early-mid 80s, using many of the same characters. Basically an inferior riff on the themes of Less Than Zero - the characters are drugged and bored out of any emotional connection with the world, which makes the book tough to engage with at first, until the later stories show what that state of affairs leads to and some outlandish horror occurs almost unnoticed. Decent enough by the end, but basically the same ground he covered in a far more impressive novel a decade earlier. ( )
  roblong | Sep 6, 2012 |
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One night I was sitting in bed in my hotel room
on Bunker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles.
It was an important night in my life, because I had
to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up
or I got out: that was the note said, the note
the landlady had put under my door. A great
problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it
by turning out the lights and going to bed.

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Bruce calls, stoned and sunburned, from Los Angeles and tells that he's sorry.
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I go to the other room, swallow some Valium, open up my coffin and take a little nap.
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