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Glamorama is a satirical mass-murder opus more ambitious than Bret Easton Ellis's 1990 American Psycho. 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 Flatliners II. 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.
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. Glamorama 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, Less Than Zero, aped Joan Didion. Now Ellis has grown into a lesser Don DeLillo--and that's high praise. --Tim Appelo --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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The evil twin of fellow brat-packer Jay McInerney's Model Behavior, Ellis's (The Informers) bad trip through glitterary New York has everything his fans (and critics) have come to expect: graphic sex, designer drugs, rock 'n' roll allusions, splatterpunk violence and characters as deep as 8"x10" glossies. Protagonist Victor Ward, a "model-slash-loser," is opening his own trendy Manhattan club while cheating on his supermodel girlfriend and back-stabbing his partner. After some adventures in clubland, the plot takes a turn for the paranoid. Victor is recruited by a mysterious figure, F. Fred Palakon, to track down a former girlfriend gone missing in London. There he becomes unwillingly drawn into a terrorist group?run, like so much else in the novel, by a supermodel?that bombs fashionable hangouts, hotels and jetliners. Throughout, Ellis clutters his hallmark proper-noun realism with excessive name-dropping and strung-out plotting. The satirist in Ellis seems to want to indict celebrity-obsessed, materialistic and superficial contemporary culture. With this novel he, perhaps unwittingly but certainly ironically, provides Exhibit A. 100,000 first printing.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
brilliant,
By high_fructose (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Glamorama (Paperback)
This is the best book I have ever read. It was so out of control and engrossing I couldn't stop reading it. The confusion, heathenism, specs and stench is all too much.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Weird, But Great,
By a young reader (new york) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Glamorama (Paperback)
Yes, this book is about international supermodel terrorists (the same idea, you might notice, poked fun at by Ben Stiller in Zoolander... except in Glamorama it's no joke). As rediculous as that sounds, it works in Glamorama. And even if the idea doesn't provoke you, there is so much more to this book that it almost doesn't matter.The beginning, about 100 pages taking place in Manhatten in the 90s in which the main character is enjoying being the "It Boy" of the moment, is important. If you don't like that, don't give up yet, because what follows is not light-hearted at all. The rest of the book is intense and at points confusing. However, every word is more intriguing then the last. Even if the book isn't fun to read, you will want to know what happens so badly that you will blow off your homework or job to finish it. Even after racing through hundreds of pages, you won't know what happens... well ever. Although in the last hundred or so pages of the book, questions do get answered, it seems that every answer in this book leads to more questions. Some parts of this book are just downright bazaar and its last few pages are vague. However, after racing through those pages until the last I realized that I did enjoy everyone of those pages even if I'm dying to have lunch with Bret Easton Ellis just to beg him to answer my million questions.
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This review is from: Glamorama (Paperback)
This book was incredible. I bought this book blind (not recommended by anyone) because I liked the cover. It was great reading. Ellis' writing is hard to follow and the story goes all over the place, but that's just a reflection of the story itself and the characters - everything is nuts. You never really know what's going so it keeps you on the edge of your seat. This may be difficult to swallow for readers who like worlds that are orderly and make sense - which this story does not most of the time. It was crazy and I loved it! Ellis' is smart but not intellectual. Can't wait for another great Ellis read.
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