opinions?

>>24543362 (OP)
More or less the same as all his other work. That being said I like his other work and therefore liked The Shards. Put me onto the song Nowhere Girl by B-Movie. "Nowhere girl in self-imposed exile" is literally how it feels to be me so thats cool.

>>24543362 (OP)
typo on cover it should be SHARTS
>kek

Is this the one where there is a double of him? Thought that sounded interesting

>>24543498
stale joke

>>24543382
>More or less the same as all his other work.
Why the fuck did he decide to end his 13 year novel writing hiatus with "more of the same"?

>>24543611
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

>>24543362 (OP)
It's alright. I like that Brett himself voiced the audiobook. It just multiplies the perversely personal nature of this auto-fiction.

>>24543611
Very few out there are blessed with a genuine excess of creativity anon

>>24543605
>*it should be THE SHITTY BOOK
ftfy

>>24543362 (OP)
looks like an X-Files book art

>>24543605
it's what i think

how is it compared to American psycho

>>24543808
more personal and autobiographical, more slower and way way more gayer

>>24543382
You have to be 18 to post here.

>>24544546
Ouch. Sorry I like to joke and have fun. The book is a dumb yet fun so why would my comment not be?

>>24544623
A dumb yet fun READ. Sorry now I’m just proving your point :P

>>24543382
>More or less the same as
No it isn't; it's far more rigid and genre-fied. Though it has more in common with American Psycho than Glamorama, it's neither as ambitious nor as 'timely' as either. Nonetheless, I did enjoy it. It was 'fun to read' as one anon said, and there were a few displaced 'concerns' and a central puzzle that even made it interesting

>>24543362 (OP)
>live reading the manuscript by chapter as it was being written was interesting (and how it differed from print final version)
>suck & fuck appropriate for slacking high school seniors at least
>nominal antagonist's mental illness portrayed believably
>hobo pet killing cult and gangstalking made surveillance menacing along with the True Detective possibility of having stumbled into something much larger
>extensive in-book soundtrack good for immersive reading:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2pEYm35mYlL6WKAEYh7jcH

Finally executed on Imperial Bedrooms and Smiley Face Killer surveillance being the real horror, and some of the darker parts of the short stories. Noir-ish setup supercedes Less Than Zero and Rules of Attraction affluent ingenue ennui. Material's personal and until this book suppressed, which lends itself to verisimilitude. The way his self-insert handles aspects of the investigation beggars belief at a couple critical junctures, but this could be handwaved for his complicity and/or simply being young and dumb (and drugged up). A more schizoid picrel by way of Brick (2005) and Stephen King.

>>24545183
>book suppressed, which lends itself to verisimilitude
This is one 'displaced concern'
The book really *was* suppressed as a species of writing, but not for any reason given in the fiction

bump

>>24543362 (OP)
Unedited version of Less Than Zero + the most disturbing things he could come up with after decades of coming up the most disgusting things he could come up with.

>>24543362 (OP)
It's good. Horror, mysterious, and cool fun hanging with the hot valley kids.
>>24543382
You're faded. Nothing like Less Than Zero or Rules of attraction. American Psycho is a different horror story hanging with wall street and very NY. The Shards is LA, valley kids, and unreliable auto-fiction horror. Glamorama is kinda similar desu

>>24548326
No I’m not. At the end of the day Ellis’s novels are violence and disillusion with a New Wave soundtrack wrapped into an autofiction. Obviously they aren’t all exactly the same. But the all reoccurring tropes from his other work can be seen in The Shards—Bret sees the same car everywhere, he’s always wasted so unreliable narrator angle, Elvis Costello name drop, killer on the lose, drugs…you can’t say it’s not more of the same thing he always does. And I really liked The Shards, it was fresh enough to keep me reading, but not super original. You’re just being a contrarian for the sake of it if you can’t recognize the overlap.

>>24543362 (OP)
it sticks

>>24548376
>At the end of the day
A few signature images are just that, indicative of nothing other
>>24544695
(Me) earlier

>>24549334
sticks or stinks?

>>24549361
Idk, I mean it really reminded me of Lunar Park ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>24549884
favorite BEE novel?

>>24549909
Superlatives are not easy to answer, but if I had to choose, Glamorama is probably my favorite.

bump

>>24549884
Yeah, it has most in common with that one, no doubt
>>24549909
Glamorama for me, as well

>>24543362 (OP)
>RICH PEOPLE ARE EMPTY AND DISTURBING
wow thank you for the insight bret easton ellis, i'm glad you made another book about it

>>24550392
it's not as easy

>>24543362 (OP)
American psycho was meh why would I read this?

>>24544018
>way way more gayer
American Psycho was incredibly gay, so that is impressive

bret is literally me

>>24550788
>History repeats the old concerts the glib replies the same defeats keep your finger on important issues with crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues..
Really?