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Imperial Bedrooms (2010)

by Bret Easton Ellis(Favorite Author)

3.11 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0330517090 (ISBN13: 9780330517096)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Picador

review 1: Does B.E.E. have to ask Elvis Costello's permission before he rips off his titles? Or is he just a cultural vampire? I suppose he felt he had to since this is a kinda sequel to his first, sensational 80s novel "Less Than Zero." Less you miss the connection (B.E.E. is nothing if not obvious), the book begins thusly "They had made a movie about us. The movie was based on a book written by someone we knew." Oh snap, he' s talking about "Less Than Zero!" Few things are more lazy than doing meta in the 00s. This is another shallow novel about shallow people being shallow (dead eyed sex, drugs, pop culture). He thinks he's a satirist, but he's not that smart or funny. Maybe he thinks by using Costello and Raymond Chandler as epigraphs, people will forgot that he has no talent. H... moreere's a sentence that sums up this book and pretty much all of B.E.E. (he stings, but it only hurts for a minute), "we were just doing coke and watching "The Hills." You can read this book in like an hour whilst doing something else (might I suggest coke and "The Hills?"), but if you get bored, have a sip of overprice champagne every time he drops a brand name. You'll be drunk by page 50 and then won't care how shitty this book is. The worst novelist of his generation?
review 2: Kinda good but it mostly just dragged on. It was written in the style of a mystery thriller, so I had to wait until the very end to be able to get a grip on exactly what the hell was going on. I can only take mystery stories in small doses because I guess I'm somewhat impatient. *shrugs* It wasn't a bad story, but it was rather morbid at times and left me somewhat frazzled from having to read through all the filler clues in order to see what the deal was. I'm still glad I grabbed this from the library, though, as I've been wanting to check it out since reading (and enjoying) the prequel, Less Than Zero. less

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