Bret Easton Ellis
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March 07, 1964
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Los Angeles, California, The United States
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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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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis avg rating 3.70 — 11,121 ratings — published 1991 44 editions |
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Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis avg rating 3.50 — 6,127 ratings — published 1987 24 editions |
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The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis avg rating 3.60 — 4,074 ratings — published 1987 20 editions |
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Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis avg rating 3.39 — 2,671 ratings — published 1998 28 editions |
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Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis avg rating 3.47 — 2,102 ratings — published 2005 27 editions |
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The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis avg rating 3.34 — 1,386 ratings — published 1994 24 editions |
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Zombies by Bret Easton Ellis avg rating 3.23 — 40 ratings — published 1996 2 editions |
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Water from the Sun: Discovering Japan by Bret Easton Ellis avg rating 3.37 — 19 ratings — published 2006 |
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Letters from L.A. : Edition bilingue anglais-français (1CD audio) by Bret Easton Ellis avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2005 2 editions |
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Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010 |
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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)
— Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho)
"People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city. Blair picks me up from LAX and mutters this under her breath as she drives up the onramp. She says, "People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles." Though that sentence shouldn't bother me, it stays in my mind for an uncomfortably long time. Nothing else seems to matter. Not the fact that I'm eighteen and it's December and the ride on the plane had been rough and the couple from Santa Barbara, who were sitting across from me in first class, had gotten pretty drunk. Not the mud that had splattered on the legs of my jeans, which felt kind of cold and loose, earlier that day at an airport in New Hampshire. Not the stain on the arm of the wrinkled, damp shirt I wear, a shirt which looked fresh and clean this morning. Not the tear on the neck of my gray argyle vest, which seems vaguely more eastern than before, especially next to Blair's clean tight jeans and her pale-blue shirt. All of this seems irrelevant next to that one sentence. It seems easier to hear that people are afraid to merge than "I'm pretty sure Muriel is anorexic" or the singer on the radio crying out about magnetic waves. Nothing else seems to matter to me but those ten words. Not the warm winds, which seem to propel the car down the empty asphalt freeway, or the faded smell of marijuana which still faintly permeates Blaire's car. All it comes down to is the fact that I'm a boy coming home for a month and meeting someone whom I haven't seen for four months and people are afraid to merge. "
— Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero)
— Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero)
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