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Den berømte forfatter Ellis er efter en periode med stoffer og druk faldet til ro i en fredelig forstad sammen med konen og en lille baby. Alt ånder fred, men så begynder en seriemorder at husere i området, en seriemorder, der kopierer mordene i Ellis' mest berømte roman "American psycho".
Read for a Studies in Fiction graduate seminar at CU Boulder
Anyone who knows me knows I'm not a fan of horror at all. And this novel was absolutely horrifying. But also so well-written and with so many layers that reading it was an odd pleasure. I have to admire an author who can sink a story beneath so many layers of narrative that the reader has a hard time finding truth OR lies in the pages.
I would definitely recommend this read. If for no other reason than to admire its experimental structure and provocative prose! But be warned - it really is terrifying. ( )
This was a high-speed pit stop between slower reads. It starts out inauspiciously with Ellis bragging about and quoting from his earlier novels. It then goes into a long, breathless account of his rise to the A -list stratosphere of glam and its excesses, belief-straining excesses. Another fairly long section chronicles his descent into serial rehab. After that, the book kind of falls apart. Paragraphs turn into lonely sentences about the wreckage and his painful attempts to save a crumbling marriage and finally connect to his son. But he's mostly aware he's too far gone now to make the connections.
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Le risque du métier en faisant de soi un spectacle qui n'en finit pas, c'est qu'à un moment donné, on achète soi-même un billet. Thomas McGuane, Panama
Les gens qui se sont fait une idée à propos d'un homme n'aiment pas devoir changer d'opinion, réviser leur jugement en raison d'une preuve nouvelle ou d'arguments nouveaux, et l'homme qui tente de les forcer à changer d'avis est, pour le moins, en train de perdre son temps et peut-être de chercher des ennuis. John O'Hara
Des tablettes de ma mémoire J'effacerai tout ce qui y fut inscrit de futile et de tendre Tout adage livresque, toute forme, Toute impression passée Que ma déférente jeunesse y a copiés Hamlet, I, v, 95
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Information fra den franske Almen Viden.Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
Pour Robert Martin Ellis 1941-1992 et Michael Wade Kaplan 1974-2004
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"You do an awfully good impression of yourself."
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So, if you should see my son, tell him I say hello, be good, that I am thinking of him and that I know he's watching over me somewhere, and not to worry: that he can always find me here, whenever he wants, right here, my arms held out and waiting, in the pages, behind the covers, at the end of Lunar Park.
Den berømte forfatter Ellis er efter en periode med stoffer og druk faldet til ro i en fredelig forstad sammen med konen og en lille baby. Alt ånder fred, men så begynder en seriemorder at husere i området, en seriemorder, der kopierer mordene i Ellis' mest berømte roman "American psycho".
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Anyone who knows me knows I'm not a fan of horror at all. And this novel was absolutely horrifying. But also so well-written and with so many layers that reading it was an odd pleasure. I have to admire an author who can sink a story beneath so many layers of narrative that the reader has a hard time finding truth OR lies in the pages.
I would definitely recommend this read. If for no other reason than to admire its experimental structure and provocative prose! But be warned - it really is terrifying. (