Thanks for the review- I like your tortoise-shell glasses reference to the hipsters in town.

And, thank you for the spoiler alert about the typical Ellis ending- the last book I read by him was "Glamorama" which I enjoyed until the last thirty pages.

Thanks for the review- I like your tortoise-shell glasses reference to the hipsters in town.

And, thank you for the spoiler alert about the typical Ellis ending- the last book I read by him was "Glamorama" which I enjoyed until the last thirty pages.

My main issue with BEE's work is just that I find it tiring to read more then a tiny bit at a time. The unrelenting horribleness just wears me down before long, and the books aren't well-written enough to encourage me to put up with completely unlikeable characters doing horrible things to each other and whoever they come across.

I actually just re-read American Psycho and was sort of blown away by it. There were a lot of passages -- like the one describing Bateman's panic-inducing lunch with his younger brother -- that were so wonderful I kept going back to them and reading them out loud.