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Glamorama

By: Bret Easton Ellis
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
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In Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis shows us a shadowy looking-glass world, the juncture where fame and fashion, terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives.

The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn’t been and with people he doesn’t know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history, he’s living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. Now it’s time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.
“Does for the cold, minimal ’90s what American Psycho did for the Wall Street greed of the ’80s. You name it, he manages to get it all in.” VOGUE©2000 Bret Easton Ellis (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Crime Thrillers Dark Humour Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Thriller Thriller & Suspense Comedy Crime New York Suspense Mystery
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really interesting, fascinated with how the books put together, there definitely gems in this text

It's a lot!

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I would have enjoyed another narrator, expressing more arrogance and wit. One of my favourite BEE tales.

The plot and superb writing

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A well narrated book, bringing late 90s US culture to life, ruined by unexplained bursts of white noise at random intervals. In summary: good writing and good performance spoiled by poor post production.

Good performance spoiled by white noise

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Lots of good ideas in this somewhat meta-novel, the OG satire (when Zoolander ripped it off it was mere farce) of fame and celebrity ‘values’. Ellis delivers his best constructed novel since American Psycho toying with the characters, the reader and dabbling in the surreal.
If you struggle with the first part of the book do soldier on, it’s supposed to make you feel a certain way about the character(s) and is effective.
(The chapters are also deliberately numbered that way)

Not one for the prudish or homophobic so don’t bother review-bombing it if it makes you feel uncomfortable. You should know what you’re getting into before you pick it up by now.

Well-crafted or gimmicky?

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If you like cheap childish plots as an excuse to do porn and gore you will love this book.
The characters have no substance the writing is in existent/does not have any specific/personal style, the book is way too long especially considering what it is.
The claim that this is a denunciation of models and celebrities is pathetic but so typical. Makes me think about how exposing your breasts and ass is the way to go if you’re a feminist.
While I did not like the book at all, I think the most unbearable is the narrator’s voice constantly screaming and whining in your ears, forcing you to turn the volume up and down constantly.

I did not have an enjoyable experience

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