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Work detailsImperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis (2010)
![]() No current Talk conversations about this book. Read because I love Less than Zero, this is the sequel and, to my regret, I still care about the characters. This book doesn't. It flails around, creating fake drama where it doesn't belong in absence of actually being about anything. Feels like half-an-effort of a famous author who no longer feels like he has to try. ( ![]() Enh. Nominally a sequel to Less Than Zero set 20 years later, but still just a book about horrible, vapid people, just older. Not actually engaging, although there were a few interesting parts (the meta exploitation of people who think they're exploiting others, etc.) There was absolutely no point to this book. Written as a sequel of Less Than Zero 20 years after it was published. Less Than Zero was an incredible book. It told a tale that was beautiful in its bleakness and spoke in a voice that a generation could relate to. Imperial Bedrooms continued a story that didn't need continuing. I doubt it'd be a story you'd understand if you hadn't read Less Than Zero. From all the Ellis books I've read, this was the least Ellis-ian. It was disappointing. Creepy and demoralizing. 5 stars for audiobook read by Andrew McCarthy because his performance is amazing and made me like this novel a lot more.
Despite Chip Kidd’s cover art, which features a traffic-stopping Satanic image and Mr. Ellis’s name in the book-jacket equivalent of big red neon letters, “Imperial Bedrooms” is without shock value. It’s a work of limited imagination that all too deftly simulates the effects of having no imagination at all.
Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle that will leave him no choice but to plumb the darkest recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal. No library descriptions found. |
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