false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223662408m/591219.jpg 9913 28 <I>Glamorama</I> is a satirical mass-murder opus more ambitious than Bret Easton Ellis's 1990 <I>American Psycho</I>. It starts as a spritz-of-consciousness romp about kid-club entrepreneur Victor Ward, "the It boy of the moment," an actor-model up for <I>Flatliners II</I>. Ellis has perfect pitch for glam-speak, and he gives nightlife the fizz, pace, and shimmer it lacks in drab reality. Anyone could cite the right celeb names and tunes, but like a rock-polishing machine, his prose gives literary sheen to fame-chasing air-kissers. He's coldly funny: when Victor's girl tries to argue him out of a breakup, she angrily snorts six bumps of coke, stops, mutters, "Wrong vial," snorts four corrective doses from whatever she has in her other fist, then objects to a rival at the party wearing the same dress she's wearing.<p> You had to be there; Ellis makes you feel you are. But such satire is a very smart bomb targeting a very large barn. Models' status anxiety doesn't merit Ellis's Tom Wolfe-esque expertise. <I>Glamorama</I> gets better when Victor gets drafted into a mysterious group of model-terrorists who bomb 747s and the Ritz in Paris, wearing Kevlar-lined Armani suits. Oh, they still behave like shallow snobs, pronouncing "cool" as if it had 12 o's. But now when somebody swills Cristal, it's apt to be poisoned, to horrific effect, which Ellis expertly, affectlessly describes. His enfant-terrible debut, <I>Less Than Zero</I>, aped Joan Didion. Now Ellis has grown into a lesser Don DeLillo--and that's high praise. <I>--Tim Appelo</I> 2115530 1998 Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries) total:3104|5:616|4:869|3:914|2:492|1:213| 3104 10495 4220 290 1 8 false false Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 22:27:02 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 12:54:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 7 true false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 02 15:14:40 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 11:43:14 -0700 2007
Or………… Wait! Do these plastic explosives match my Armani? Call the camera crew. We have to go back to wardrobe! Reset the timer. And….where’s my Zanex?
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It is the story of Victor post-Camden, now a high profile mode...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon May 21 13:29:30 -0700 2007 Mon May 21 13:46:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 2 false false Fri Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 05:28:01 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 18:47:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Jan 15 11:18:21 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 11:28:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed Aug 20 18:28:48 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 11:36:12 -0700 2008
Where do I even begin with this book. It's really not worth me spending too much time on, however, I want revenge on this book. It's not fair that I wasted so much time on it. Life is too short. It's really long (about 540 pages) and the...more...]]> 4 1 false true Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 20:36:43 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 20:56:29 -0700 2008
But I think I have to stop.
And it's not because it's boring, or shallow, or intensely materialistic. I've actually been kind of digging that stuff (the celebrity name lists, the hilariously sha...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Feb 28 11:39:03 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 11:39:33 -0800 2009 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 08:38:20 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 08:42:32 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 08 19:58:29 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 00:03:10 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 19:58:29 -0800 2009 This is my take on Glamorama, it's about...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jun 26 11:24:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 11:29:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 09:59:49 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 16:56:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jul 09 10:55:26 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 10:58:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Aug 02 14:14:06 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 14:14:42 -0700 2007
I had a good time with the symbolism in the book (though some of it is still somewhat confusing), the shallowness of the characters, etcetera.

My only beef with the book is that it should have ended at a point before the actual ending. It...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Feb 18 09:35:12 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 20 10:36:15 -0800 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=591219