false \ 6573910 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 4031 27 1374605 2005 Lunar Park total:2727|5:557|4:889|3:799|2:334|1:148| 2727 9554 3650 309 591214 0375412913 9780375412912 186 31 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176081145m/591214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/591214.Lunar_Park 5 5 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 09:10:40 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 20:17:53 -0800 2009 "How lonely people make life. But also I realized what I hadn't learned from him: that a family - if you allow it - gives you joy, which in turn gives you hope."

I’m a pretty big BEE fan, and I love his cool, detached writing style, and how all his books are slightly deranged....more...]]> 4031 0375727272 9780375727276 2160 217 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165382149m/4031.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4031.Lunar_Park 1 4 false Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Jan 24 10:09:54 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 10:27:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4031 0375727272 9780375727276 2160 217 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165382149m/4031.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4031.Lunar_Park 1 2 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 16 10:02:39 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 10:05:22 -0700 2008 Less Than Zero off of my favorite books list. Could this book have been worse? I don't know. I really am not sure how. If we refer back to my list of things Douglas Coupland did to screw up JPod, BEE here does them all and then some, by adding in less pornog...more...]]> 4031 0375727272 9780375727276 2160 217 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165382149m/4031.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4031.Lunar_Park 3 2 false Tue Oct 09 12:53:59 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 13:00:18 -0700 2007 that impressed. It was just a little too over the top. Admittedly, this over the top aspect made it really amusing; the plot is basically that Bret Easton Ells (by writing himself in as the protagonist, he 'does an impression of himself') i...more...]]> 4032 9879397479 9789879397473 54 17 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165382151m/4032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4032.Lunar_Park 5 2 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat May 26 11:56:51 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 20:09:00 -0800 2009
Es bueno leer Lunar Park sin saber nada d...more...]]> 828738 0375711317 15 4 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178736795m/828738.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/828738.Lunar_Park 3 1 false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Aug 21 22:25:15 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 22:25:15 -0700 2007
I read a short remembrance of Tom Cruise in the late 80's by Bret a ...more...]]> 4032 9879397479 9789879397473 54 17 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165382151m/4032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4032.Lunar_Park 2 1 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 18 23:25:25 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 01:10:03 -0700 2007 more...]]> 591214 0375412913 9780375412912 186 31 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176081145m/591214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/591214.Lunar_Park 4 1 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri May 25 12:45:17 -0700 2007 Fri May 25 13:46:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4031 0375727272 9780375727276 2160 217 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165382149m/4031.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4031.Lunar_Park 1 1 false Fri Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 19:13:08 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 19:13:51 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 4031 0375727272 9780375727276 2160 217 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165382149m/4031.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4031.Lunar_Park 2 0 false Fri Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 11 07:35:27 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 11 08:27:10 -0800 2009
This declaration is made by Bret Easton Ellis near the end of his book, Lunar Park. It also beautifully illustrates the failing of a book that I was, at first, amazed by. When I mentioned that Mr. Ell...more...]]> 4031 0375727272 9780375727276 2160 217 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165382149m/4031.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4031.Lunar_Park 4 0 false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 17:01:13 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 06:47:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4031 0375727272 9780375727276 2160 217 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165382149m/4031.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4031.Lunar_Park 3 0 false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 19:54:43 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 15:37:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 591214 0375412913 9780375412912 186 31 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176081145m/591214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/591214.Lunar_Park 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:35:45 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:35:45 -0800 2009 Easton's device of inserting himself into the novel compares unfavorably with Philip Roth's Zuckerman Unbound, while Peter Straub and Stephen King used a similar gimmick more effectively than Ellis does. Some readers enjoyed Lunar Park as a straightforward horror story, but most felt that it was tri...

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Something tells me I might have been able to appreciate the satire of Lunar Park if I'd read Ellis' other novels first. As it is, Lunar Park was my introduction to Ellis, and therefore all references to his life, previous novels, and whatever else felt lost on me.

A...more...]]> 4031 0375727272 9780375727276 2160 217 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165382149m/4031.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4031.Lunar_Park 5 0 false Mon Apr 27 18:45:07 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 19:14:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4031 0375727272 9780375727276 2160 217 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165382149m/4031.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4031.Lunar_Park 4 0 false Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 20:18:12 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 12:01:22 -0800 2008
...more...]]> 1227586 1415924023 50 7 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182056997m/1227586.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1227586.Lunar_Park 4 1 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 21:46:13 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 21:49:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4031 0375727272 9780375727276 2160 217 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165382149m/4031.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4031.Lunar_Park 4 0 false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 13:13:02 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 13:18:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 891021 0330440012 9780330440011 45 10 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179225724m/891021.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/891021.Lunar_Park 3 0 false Thu Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 22 15:18:24 -0700 2009 Thu Dec 10 05:30:38 -0800 2009
Overall, Lunar Park alternates between the...more...]]> 4031 0375727272 9780375727276 2160 217 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165382149m/4031.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4031.Lunar_Park 3 0 false Sat Sep 27 06:36:25 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 08:54:13 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 06:36:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6573910