Bret Easton Ellis

Born

in Los Angeles, California, The United States

March 07, 1964

Website

http://www.breteastonellis.com/

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Genre

Satire, Fiction

Influences

Don DeLillo, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Gustave Flauber ...more

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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). ...more

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Bret Easton Ellis’s books

Average rating: 3.68 · 434,396 ratings · 18,648 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors

	American Psycho 3.81 avg rating — 233,775 ratings — published 1991 — 180 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Less Than Zero 3.56 avg rating — 68,705 ratings — published 1985 — 119 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rules of Attraction 3.69 avg rating — 39,909 ratings — published 1987 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lunar Park 3.64 avg rating — 30,074 ratings — published 2005 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glamorama 3.46 avg rating — 20,462 ratings — published 1998 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Informers 3.37 avg rating — 18,818 ratings — published 1994 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imperial Bedrooms 3.12 avg rating — 19,093 ratings — published 2010 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White 3.57 avg rating — 2,877 ratings — published 2019 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Water from the Sun and Discovering Japan 3.49 avg rating — 432 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters from LA 3.72 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Bret Easton Ellis

Less Than Zero (2 books)
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Bret Easton Ellis

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Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

“...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

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“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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“All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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Polls

What frequently challenged or banned adult-themed book should we read in April and May?

[Note: if you want to see different books in the polls, suggest some!]

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

28 votes, 22.2%

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

24 votes, 19.0%

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

14 votes, 11.1%

Carrie by Stephen King

12 votes, 9.5%

The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, John

10 votes, 7.9%

Maurice by E.M. Forster

10 votes, 7.9%

The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

10 votes, 7.9%

Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck, John

8 votes, 6.3%

My House by Nikki Giovanni

5 votes, 4.0%

Native Son by Richard Wright

5 votes, 4.0%

126 total votes

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