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19558019

Bret Easton Ellis Anonymous Sun Dec 12 12:44:52 2021 No.19558019 [Reply] [Original]

1. Less Than Zero is narrated by Clay

2. RoA is narrated primarily by Patrick Bateman's brother and a girl and a gay guy + Patrick Bateman has a single chapter near the end + Clay has a single chapter which parodies LtZ better than DFW was able to

3. American Psycho mocks RoA in the opening chapter + Paul from RoA appears staring at Bateman b/c he looks like Sean + Tim Price (Justin Theroux from the AP film) appears in multiple chapters of The Informers

4. Glamorama is narrated by Victor, a character with 2 chapters in RoA + He dies in the last 1/6 of the book most people miss this + Mentions Lauren, one of the main narrators from RoA: “Lauren Hynde died in … December 1985 … in a car accident … outside Camden, New Hampshire.” (Right after RoA ends lol)

5. The Informers... doesn't matter... Tim Price + someone from LtZ are main + Sean Bateman from RoA is mentioned

6. Lunar Park is about fictionalized Ellis and loops in all his previous books + someone imitating murders from AP

7. Imperial Bedrooms is a different Clay from LtZ + claims LtZ the novel was written by someone else + mocks the movie's connection to reality + is self-contained to the LtZ characters

Did I miss anything

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 12:47:17 2021 No.19558027 >>19558019 >Did I miss anything You missed the reason why I should care.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 12:50:16 2021 No.19558041 Ellis is a total hack.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 12:56:04 2021 No.19558066 >RoA actually deep and links in characters lol yeah you missed a lot

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 12:58:32 2021 No.19558075 >>19558019 Stop posting this. What do you think is going to happen?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 13:02:48 2021 No.19558096 >>19558075 I have to validate all the hours I wasted reading BEE somehow.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 13:04:47 2021 No.19558104 >>19558075 Devastating

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 17:04:28 2021 No.19559561 >>19558019 k

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 21:41:39 2021 No.19561286 >>19558019 Cool

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 23:18:33 2021 No.19561842 >>19558019 You need to deepen your analysis of his work as fanfiction.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 23:28:34 2021 No.19561886 >>19561842 wat like fanfiction of himself?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 23:35:42 2021 No.19561924 >>19558019 Stephen King and Sanderson does it better >RoA Interesting movie thanks to Avery. One of the worst books I ever read

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 23:35:56 2021 No.19561926 >>19561886 No that his entire work is Sparkle horn the magical pony dragon for a rich gay elite college cunt.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 23:56:53 2021 No.19562031 >>19561924 Avery is pretty cool >>19561926 >elite college LOL what >rich What does this matter?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 00:00:31 2021 No.19562044 >>19561924 I liked the bit where the chick wants to lose her virginity and wants everything to be just perfect and then she just loses it one night at a party to some drunk idiot who throws up all over her. Hilarious.

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Anonymous Mon Dec 13 00:28:04 2021 No.19562145

>>19562031
>LOL what
As opposed to party colleges.
>What does this matter?
If you can't see how BEE's class position is continuously emphasised, from the vampire pedophiles in his short stories, through to Bateman slumming it as a mere executive when he is independently wealthy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 00:59:31 2021 No.19562273 >>19562145 He's just a whiny rich homosexual. Why do you faggots make such a big deal?

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Anonymous Mon Dec 13 01:06:46 2021 No.19562294

>>19562273
Because the big deal is the basis of literary criticism for fucks sake. Without investing in a detailed analysis how would we know that Bateman is not in fact psychotic, but is merely becoming psychotic to fit in. Much like the bohos in the first chapter, Bateman is "rich cunt punking."

That's the whole fucking point of murdering the author and gutting the work, to eat the kidneys fried and the liver raw.

Jesus fuck do you read for plot?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 01:24:51 2021 No.19562348 >>19562294 bee is a shit writer and you are a shit faggot

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 01:26:49 2021 No.19562354 >>19562348 Did I ever say he was not a shit writer? Also I'M A FUKKEN POOFTER MUNT.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 02:42:53 2021 No.19562627 RoA is primarily narrated by Sean who is Patrick's brother

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Anonymous Mon Dec 13 03:09:58 2021 No.19562699

>>19561924
>Interesting movie thanks to Avery. One of the worst books I ever read
The movie is good but it deviates from the book too much. The book is far darker and the characters in the book are far less likeable. But it became a romantic comedy primarily. It's a good movie I guess but it fails to capture the energy of the book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 03:30:57 2021 No.19562759 >>19558019 Dont care, but how are the sex scenes? Any memorable pervy shit, like underage urethral sounding with slivers of wax or riding defibrilated cock? Or was that from this other dudes books? Cant really tell them apart.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 03:50:09 2021 No.19562842 >>19558019 >He dies in the last 1/6 of the book when exactly

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 09:11:17 2021 No.19563906 >>19562627 huh

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 09:13:19 2021 No.19563917 >>19562145 So if your college isn't a party college it's an elite college? That doesn't make any sense. >class position What class position is BEE in? =^)

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 09:15:55 2021 No.19563926 >>19562699 Ellis said it's the only movie to capture the spirit of one of his books. But yeah it's missing the grinding and uncomfortable darkness, even with the suicide scene.