Bret Easton Ellis





Bret Easton Ellis

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Bret Easton Ellis is an American author. He is considered to be one of the major Generation X authors and was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He has called himself a moralist, although he has often been pegged as a nihilist. His characters are young, generally vacuous people, who are aware of their depravity but choose to enjoy it. The novels are also linked by common, recurring characters, and dystopic locales (such as Los Angeles and New York).


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Average rating: 3.58 · 78,198 ratings · 5,949 reviews · 10 distinct works
American Psycho
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 34,312 ratings — published 1991 — 62 editions
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Less Than Zero
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 15,097 ratings — published 1985 — 41 editions
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The Rules of Attraction: A Nov...
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 10,080 ratings — published 1987 — 36 editions
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Glamorama
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 5,969 ratings35 editions
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Lunar Park
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 5,582 ratings — published 2011 — 39 editions
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The Informers
3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 4,001 ratings — published 2010 — 32 editions
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Imperial Bedrooms
3.01 of 5 stars 3.01 avg rating — 3,062 ratings — published 2010 — 27 editions
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Water from the Sun and Discove...
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Letters from LA
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005
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June 2010, Bret Easton Ellis
"Some readers will definitely feel betrayed because Less Than Zero, as an artifact, is beloved in a way. People have a lot of strong associations with it...I think a lot of people are expecting Less Than Zero 2: The Party Continues. And that's just not what I felt it would be." ...More

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“...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.”
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“The better you look, the more you see.”
Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

“Got you. You're mine now. For the rest of the day, week, month, year, life. Have you guessed who I am? Sometimes I think you have. Sometimes when you're standing in a crowd I feel those sultry, dark eyes of yours stop on me. Are you too afraid to come up to me and let me know how you feel? I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings. I want to kill the ugly girls that you're always with. Do you really like those boring, naive, coy, calculating girls or is it just for sex? The seeds of love have taken hold, and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.”
Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction: A Novel

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