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Bright Lights, Big City

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With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of dawn. With nothing but goodw...more

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Published August 12th 1984 by Vintage (first published 1984)

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Apr 07, 2008 Jessica rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: strangely sympathetic cokehead yuppies

Recommended to Jessica by: my dealer

Shelves: here-is-new-york, substance-related-disorders

Thanks to Bookface, you no longer get this book mixed up with American Psycho, and can now easily tell the difference between Bret Easton Ellis and Jay MacInerney. Good thing you cleared that right up before you embarrassed yourself at one of those writerly New York parties you're always getting invited to. It would've been awful to have spilled your drink on the wrong author, for the wrong reason.... whew!

This book is about how terrible people's lives were before the Internet was invented.

It is...more

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Nov 08, 2011 mark monday rated it 1 of 5 stars

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perhaps the best things that i can say about this one is that it perfectly captured a perfectly nauseating time period in the mid-80s, and it certainly reinvigorated the use of second-person narrative with surprising elan; perhaps the worst thing i could say about this one is That It Drove Me Up The Wall With Its Pathetically Entitled Non-Entity Of A So-Called Protagonist And It Somehow Made It Okay To Be A Pretentious Whiny Twit And Nihilistic Fuck.

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Feb 20, 2011 Meghan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. okay. i read this book and Ian McEwan's Amsterdam in a span of like five days. they're both short, quick-ish reads, so thinking about one book always ends up as a comparison with the other. this despite the fact that they're not extremely similar. this book was more immediately satisfying during the reading of it; i felt some degree of emotional investment in what the main character was going through. however, that ended when the book did. amsterdam, on the other hand, while not as emotionally e...more okay. i read this book and Ian McEwan's Amsterdam in a span of like five days. they're both short, quick-ish reads, so thinking about one book always ends up as a comparison with the other. this despite the fact that they're not extremely similar. this book was more immediately satisfying during the reading of it; i felt some degree of emotional investment in what the main character was going through. however, that ended when the book did. amsterdam, on the other hand, while not as emotionally engaging, has kept me thinking. maybe that's because i feel i have a semi-decent understanding of what jay mcinerney was trying to get across. amsterdam, on the other hand, i'm still trying to figure out.

ANYWAY. here's some thoughts about bright lights big city:

before reading this, i associated it in my mind with the other books about crazy '80s decadence in new york city, like bonfire of the vanities or american psycho (neither of which i've read). while reading it, however, i was reminded of the bell jar and catcher in the rye (which i have read, and of which the former i appreciated and the latter not so much). so i ended up reading this as a book (like the bell jar and catcher in the rye) about a young adult more or less alone in new york city who has some serious emotional and/or mental and/or personal issues that are going unaddressed and are derailing his or her life. additionally, sometime around the reading of this book, i saw this article about how people in their early to mid twenties are still biologically in a kind of adolescence. this puts the three main characters in these three books in roughly the same age group or stage of development. the jay mcinerney character is 24, but he's still very young to be dealing with the events he's facing. all three novels play out in similar fashions and end up making the case that, for all its merits, new york city is just about the most lonely, alienating place to be when you're mentally/emotionally out of sorts. i guess this isn't necessarily a bad thing if it acts as a kind of crucible that forces eventual self-realization and growth. it just sucks in the meantime, seeing the city teeming with people who taunt you with their busyness and goals, when you can't figure out or even care how to get your life in order. as jack bauer once said, "there’s nothing more dangerous and destructive than being in New York without a sense of purpose."

also, the whole oh, *he's* the coma baby stuck in his dead mom realization hit me in just the right place. i appreciated that.(less)

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Oct 30, 2009 Rebecca rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was almost tempted to give this five stars--an honor I've bestowed upon just two books all year. This book surprised me. Here was a character who, yes, snorts cocaine and passes out in bathrooms--but he has a conscience. The second-person narrative is effortless.

McInerney is a part of the "literary brat pack," so his work is lumped in along with Bret Easton Ellis's. I remember Less than Zero as a confusing jumble of drug-feuled ramblings about ex-girlfriends, overdoses, fast cars, and prostit...more

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May 22, 2008 Liz rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: library

Is this really a book all New Yorkers have to read? That's how it was brought to my attention and, perhaps because of that, I found it disappointingly 80s. I was expecting the city to be more of a character but instead it's all coke and bars and mocking of lit magazines - Gawker before Gawker existed. I feel like "Bright Lights, Big City" belongs on a shelf with "American Psycho" and "Bonfire of the Vanities." The literary brat pack connection is obvious, the Tom Wolfe one maybe less so, but all...more

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Jun 29, 2007 Shepherd rated it 4 of 5 stars

You get used to reading a novel in second person pretty quickly, so it's not really that annoying. You enjoy how quickly the pages turn, how quickly the plot flows. It's a fun read, if not a deep one. You recognize the parallels with your own life, but don't feel the need to dwell on this. You end up liking the main character, even though you know he's an asshole. You're a bit resistant to some implied moralizing at the end, but you let it go. And you will make use of the metaphor of cocaine use...more

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Apr 26, 2013 Lisa Eckstein rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2010

You've been meaning to read BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY for years, ever since hearing that it's written in the second person. You were intrigued, understandably. Point of view in fiction has always been an area of interest, and you might be described as a sucker for narrative gimmicks.

While preparing for a trip to Manhattan, you entertained romantic fantasies of reading a novel set in New York during your stay. You forgot, as you always do, that you never manage to read while traveling, and that at...more

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Mar 15, 2013 Kirsty Hymers rated it 3 of 5 stars

My first Jay McInerney book, opportunistically purchased at an HMV book sale. I enjoyed the second person narrative, which takes a few pages to relax into. It gives the book a fast paced feel and seems appropriate to the chaotic, self-indulgent lifestyle of the protagonist.

The narrative wasn't particularly deep or thought provoking, and the characters weren't very three dimensional, although given the narrators self-involvement this feels justified. The book is wittily written and enjoyable to r...more

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Mar 09, 2013 Tara rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is another one of those books about New York City of the past where the description of the book was hyped up such that you became disappointed as you read (the other was 'the best of everything').

The story was supposed to be about NYC in the 80s, and there is a bit of that, mainly of the partying life in downtown, being married to a model, or rather, most of the book was really about life after being dumped by said model. If you want NYC of the 80s, try bonfires of the vanity or even one of...more

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Jan 07, 2013 Daniel rated it 3 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The most obvious thing to talk about after reading this book is the use of second person. I think this in itself makes the book extremely unique, because you clearly don't see very many books that are entirely in the second person. It was definitely tough for me to adjust to it as a reader, but it also adds an interesting element because there's a sense of being able to relate to the text because you never know what "Your" name is, and you can imagine that you're doing everything in his place. T...more

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Jan 06, 2013 Abby rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Everyone

Shelves: favorites

Probably one of the most brilliant books I've ever read. I absolutely adored it. Of course, this might partially be due to the second-person point of view. You don't see that often, especially in a full length novel, but McInerney made it seem effortless. He did an incredible job with it. Sure, I'm disappointed that we'll never know the narrator's name - it'll make describing this book to others very difficult. But at the same time, this makes the novel more real.

The narrator himself is great....more

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Jan 03, 2013 Syringa Smyrna rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. « You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. »

« You are awed by his strict refusal to acknowledge any goal higher than the pursuit of pleasure. You want to be like that. You also think he is shallow and dangerous. »

« This cousin had a girlfriend with cheekbones to break your heart, and you knew she was the real thing when she steadfastly refused to acknowledge your presence. She possessed secrets – about islands, about horses, about French pronunci...more

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Dec 02, 2012 Wynne Kontos rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

My dad loaned this book to me right before I went abroad to Paris this summer. He had attached a yellow Post-It saying he thought I might enjoy it since it takes place in both New York and Paris (sort of).
I got no personal reading done in Paris, and this book, despite being only 230 something pages, has been on my shelf since this summer until I got to it this fall. There must have been a cosmic source making me wait to read it, since I believe books sometimes know when we need the stories insi...more My dad loaned this book to me right before I went abroad to Paris this summer. He had attached a yellow Post-It saying he thought I might enjoy it since it takes place in both New York and Paris (sort of).
I got no personal reading done in Paris, and this book, despite being only 230 something pages, has been on my shelf since this summer until I got to it this fall. There must have been a cosmic source making me wait to read it, since I believe books sometimes know when we need the stories inside them. "Bright Lights Big City" couldn't have come at a better time for me.

The novel is best known for it's use of third person narration, but this took little to no adaptation for me. The narrator is disillusioned by everything in his life, from his once kind-of-cool magazine job, to living in the "best city in the world," and his young model wife who has since left him for a modeling career in gay Paris.
The story opens to him high on cocaine, talking to a woman with a shaved head in a club who he may or may not want to have sex with if by any chance she happens to be interested, which he quickly determines she is not and ends up stumbling home at dawn, the New York city streets his only backdrop. Once I got over my momentary shock that this was one of my father's favorite novels, I was able to see the true beauty of what I was reading.
There's a reason this story has been at the tip of reader's tongues for over twenty years. Despite its age it remains relevant, touching, and laugh out loud funny. I was "that girl" laughing aloud on the SI Ferry on more than one occasion.

Perhaps it was my ability to identify with being a young twenty something struggling for a professional and personal identity in New York City. The city has an odd way of giving you value, especially as a young person. Even more as a writer, someone who struggles for more but can't quite determine how to get it. The narrator is this person. Hence what I said about "good timing."
Yet even I'll admit the same old young person searching for themselves story can get old and played out. And just when you think McInerney's bold writing style is the reason his run of the mill coming of age has remained in such strong focus, the story turns into something so much deeper, and much more touching by using family to reach through all the bull shit we experience when we think we've lost ourselves.

One of my favorite books I've ever read, and I think it saved me at a time when I was beginning to wonder what I WAS going to do with myself after all. (less)

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Aug 29, 2012 Graham Fein rated it 4 of 5 stars

I thought Bright Lights, Big City, was initially very interesting because of the 2nd person perspective, eventually you do get your ownself into the story because of the perspective. You put yourself into 80's new york, which was a very grimy and at times scary city. I thought the entire time I was reading the book that it was told in flashbacks, almost like an episode of "How I Met Your Mother" except a lot more explicit. The characters were gritty, yet they were likeable because you could unde...more

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Jul 31, 2012 Princess rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book was a quick read: a few hours, tops. Remarkable in parts, laugh out loud funny in others, and then… strangely haunting. Even now I am trying to shake the fog of the main character’s thoughts from my head. You see, the book is written almost entirely in second-person, so you find yourself identifying with the young man almost against your own will.

He first enters New York the way most of us did/ do: with dreams as big, as tall, and as majestic as the city’s skyscrapers. He has a beautif...more

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Jun 17, 2012 Drew rated it 3 of 5 stars

Not sure what to think of this one. On the one hand, it's got a lot of very good prose (and funny, too, e.g. "You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy."), and you pretty much have to identify with the main character...he is you, after all.* On the other hand, and maybe this is symptomatic of first novels, but McInerney seems to feel the need to heap on some unnecessary dramatic events either in a quest for Total Sympathy or as a justification for the protagonis...more

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Jun 13, 2012 Lily Rhoads rated it 3 of 5 stars

Bright Lights, Big City is about an unnamed young man living in Manhattan. By day he is a fact-checker for a magazine who is happily married to a woman named Amanda. By night he goes from party to party, doing drugs and searching for Amanda who recently left him, although no one knows that. His life of drugs and partying begins taking a toll on him and he eventually loses his job. He goes on like this in a downward spiral until he is forced to accept that Amanda is gone, along with his career, a...more

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Jun 01, 2012 Nicolas Shump rated it 4 of 5 stars

For the longest time, I had resisted reading any Jay McInerney as a response to the hype that accompanied the publication of his first novel, Bright Lights, Big City. For some reason, McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis were grouped together when they made their respective debuts. McInerney objected publicly stating that anyone who looked at their respective prose would not make such a mistake. He's exactly right. Bright Lights, Big City is everything that Less than Zero was not.
It is funny, endear...more

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May 29, 2012 Kelsey rated it 1 of 5 stars

Honestly this is one of the worse books I've ever read. I was ready to put it down half way through but I kept on reading in hope that it would pick up or something would happen but clearly I was expecting too much.

It wouldn't even bother me that the book doesn't have a direct plot if the character was interesting or at least had a bit of a story to them, but the characters in this book are all completely charmless, one dimensional cliché's I couldn't experience any sort of concern or interest f...more

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Jan 19, 2012 James Ward rated it 5 of 5 stars

I put off reading this book for a while because I assumed that the 2nd person narrative would be jarring and read more like a 'choose your own adventure' than an enjoyable novel, but man, was I wrong. After the first page, I no longer noticed the perspective. McInerney conquers the 2nd person so well, that by the end of the novel, its merely a side point because the rest of the novel is so strong.

Bright Lights, Big City read like a New York version of Less Than Zero but much more cohesive, (I k...more I put off reading this book for a while because I assumed that the 2nd person narrative would be jarring and read more like a 'choose your own adventure' than an enjoyable novel, but man, was I wrong. After the first page, I no longer noticed the perspective. McInerney conquers the 2nd person so well, that by the end of the novel, its merely a side point because the rest of the novel is so strong.

Bright Lights, Big City read like a New York version of Less Than Zero but much more cohesive, (I know a lot of LTZ's appeal is its rampant pace) and as a New Yorker, I appreciate the setting and the way that McInerney interacts with the it, i.e. transportations, late night walking, buildings, streets, neighborhoods. The unnamed character in Bright Lights is at a much different stage in his life than Less Than Zero's Clay, so its hard to fully compare them, but I was more sympathetic to the character in Bright Lights. The desperation and anxiety the narrator of Bright Lights feels seems real and the neglect for any of his responsibilities because of this anxiety is believable and the entire novel, propelled by his 'fuck it all' attitude, gives the novel a much deeper meaning, where Less Than Zero seems to stay on the surface. Although the themes are similar; sex, drugs, clubs/party life, negligence, etc., McInerney does it with more substance. I like a lot of Bret Easton Ellis' stuff but this book is on another level, and the writing is so smart! Lots and lots of laugh out loud, smart and witty lines, and the interior dialogue is awesome.

Some quotes I marked:

"You're sure you're awake?" she says.
It certainly feels like it: headache, sour stomach- all the vital signs. (p. 55)

You sit down up front. The bus lurches into traffic. Below 40th Street the signs on the corners change from 7th Avenue to Fashion Avenue as you enter the garment district. Amanda's old stomping grounds. Above 42nd they sell women without clothes and below they sell clothes with women. (p. 87)

"We met in a bar. It was too dark to read."
"Not so dark that she couldn't see you were her ticket out of Trailer Park Land. Bright lights, big city. If you really wanted to do that happy couple thing you shouldn't have let her model. A week on 7th Avenue would warp a nun. Where skin-deep is the mode, your traditional domestic values are not going to take root and flourish. Amanda was trying to get as far from red dirt and four-wheel drive as she could. She figured out she could trade on her looks farther than she got with you." (p. 115-116)(less)

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Dec 09, 2011 Stacy rated it 5 of 5 stars

I have wanted to read this book ever since I saw the film as a child and understood a grand total of nothing about it. Haha! All I gleaned from the 1989 TV viewing was that Marty McFly was running around looking like shit and doing bad things in scary-ass NYC. I'm very glad that I waited until I was a 14-year New Yorker to read it. I finally understand why McInerney is such a bigshot in this town. Man, can he paint it with words (in the second-person, no less)! I honestly don't see how it could...more

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Oct 10, 2011 Wendy Chard rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The innovative use of second person narrative in Bright Lights, Big City is one of several literary traits McInerney utilises in order to represent the protagonist’s failure to locate himself within a personal identity. By calling the protagonist “you” and, in effect, projecting the identity crisis of the protagonist directly onto the reader, McInerney creates a character who has divorced identity from self, and does not see the former as a reasonable manifestation of the latter.

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Oct 05, 2011 Nicole rated it 3 of 5 stars

I may be on an '80's kick right now. Between Bret Easton Ellis and a not-so-long-ago viewing of Brat Pack films, I am immersed in the overindulgent culture of the 1980's all over again. Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney is no exception.

Focusing on the decadence afforded to even those who were broke in New York City in this time period, McInerney's narrative focuses on our faceless and nameless main man who is reeling from his wife's abandonment of their marriage and his hated and thankles...more

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Aug 06, 2011 Steve rated it 4 of 5 stars

If Jay McInerney and Brett Easton Ellis are brothers in prose, then McInerney is definitely the quieter one, less interested in chainsawing you to pieces, and more interested in just being your friend.

"You" being the key word here, as McInerney's debut novel is told exclusively in the second person point of view (You do this. You do that. You find yourself in a bathroom stall, snorting Bolivian marching powder with a green-haired punk/model, etc, etc). But the POV never gets old, or comes off g...more

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Jun 12, 2011 Jenny rated it 3 of 5 stars

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In the mood to read another New York book, I picked up Bright Lights, Big City the modern classic published in 1984 about a young man, lost in life, trying to find himself in NYC. This book has been lauded by the likes of authors Jonathan Tropper and Jen Lancaster (who titled her book after, Bright Lights, Big Ass, in reference to it). Time magazine also named it one of its nine generation-defining novels.

Therefore, I had big expectations for this novel. For the most part it met my expectations....more In the mood to read another New York book, I picked up Bright Lights, Big City the modern classic published in 1984 about a young man, lost in life, trying to find himself in NYC. This book has been lauded by the likes of authors Jonathan Tropper and Jen Lancaster (who titled her book after, Bright Lights, Big Ass, in reference to it). Time magazine also named it one of its nine generation-defining novels.

Therefore, I had big expectations for this novel. For the most part it met my expectations. The author, Jay McInerney, described the 1980's New York nightlife where everyone snorts cocaine mindlessly on the regular. His wife, who works as a model, calls from France to tell him she's staying there and basically hopes his life goes well for him. He works for a fact department in an agency where he reads through other people's fiction to correct any incorrect "facts" but it hasn't helped him rise to the fiction department which was his goal in the first place. His friend, Ted Allagash, calls him up every night to party at random clubs.

While I found the 182 page romp through 1980's New York interesting, I'm fairly certain I read it much too superficially. The significance of most of it probably slipped through my fingers. Just from the little I've read written about it on various websites, I see that I didn't "get it". I wonder if some of what was so loved about this book was that it was innovative and enlightening for its time. (?) Anyway, even though it was an "easy" read, I feel like some cliff notes might help me out a little. Unless any of you have read it and can explain to me what I was supposed to have gotten from it?

Oh! I almost forgot to mention this book is written in second person. It might be the first book I've read like this, and while I normally wouldn't like it, it worked for this book, and I still felt like I was reading about another person rather than feeling like I was him. It's almost like I'm reading something he wrote to himself. Sounds strange but it actually worked out fine, lol.

Anyway, I'm way behind the times on this because apparently there was a movie based on this book with Michael J. Fox and Keifer Sutherland from 1988, an off-broadway musical for a little bit in 1999, and was performed on stage in the UK in 2009 (just last year!) I guess that's how out of the loop you can get when you're only 2-years-old when the book is published, lol. But apparently they are also re-making the movie, set to release in 2013. So... I will be watching the original movie soon and will return here to review it!

Taken from my blog at www.takemeawayreading.com (less)

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Jan 24, 2010 Paul Griebel rated it 3 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I liked this book as a whole, though I have a few criticisms, specifically that it started off rather slow and was pretty back-loaded with the character development it managed to achieve. I felt I didn't really get to know the main character until the end, when he was finally revealing the intimate details of his crumbling relationship with his wife and the death of his mother. At those points, I felt really connected to him and was actually interested in knowing more about him, but by that poin...more

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Nov 05, 2009 Heidi rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is one of those books I missed when it first came out... while the 1980s was my "coming of age" decade, I was a few years behind McInerney and company. All I knew about this book was that is spawned a not so good movie (sorry Michael J Fox-- love you but without even seeing the flick I can see you were miscast) and that it was supposed to be the voice of the 20-something generation in the early '80s.

It was definitely a walk down memory lane of what was hot in the early/mid 80's but it ended...more

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May 31, 2009 Clare added it

A surprise - a good one. Previously I had read of Jay McInerney only his New Yorker profile of Chloe Sevigny just-post-Kids (excellent) and his 9/11 novel, The Good Life (much less so.) But Bright Lights, Big City goes back another decade, to the early eighties, when Times Square still swarmed with prostitutes and drugs (and Bryant Park wasn't nearly so clean), Tribeca was affordable (and there was no film festival), and the Twin Towers marked the sky. And maybe it's because I'm feeling sentimen...more

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Jun 08, 2012 Kriti rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this book. It was groupd among Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero, which is one of my favorite books. However, the only thing they really had in common was the excessive use of cocaine. In Ellis’ book represents a very nihilistic attitude and one can’t get emotionally attached to anything because there is no emotion. In that book all I wanted was for Clay to finally show some humanity behind the looking-but-not-really-seeing exterior he built around himself. This book had me more...more

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Jan 04, 2012 Christina Marie Rau rated it 3 of 5 stars

Here's a novel that you start to read, get really into it, and then suddenly, you finish it and you're left thinking, "what the hell just happened?" It's so much but it's very little. It's a simply story but complex. It's in second person, so you're in the story, just like I was in the story, but I'm not in it any more because I finished it. That's the genius of Jay McInerny.

I kept thinking about Brett Easton Ellis as I read. The 80s. The Yuppies. The city. The business world. The money. The dru...more

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