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06-17-2007, 08:18 PM
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Re: Bret Easton Ellis, one of my new favorite authors.
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[ QUOTE ] Catcher in the Rye is outdated? [/ QUOTE ] ya, that seems a bit silly. almost as silly as high school kids being mature enough to handle any of the content in BEEs tamest book, let alone figure out the satire. [/ QUOTE ] Agreed, if you don't get Catcher you probably don't get BEE either, besides "OMG HE CUT UP THAT HOOKER!! OMG THE CHICK KILLED HERSELF! TOTALLY SWEET DUDE" 
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06-17-2007, 08:31 PM
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Re: Bret Easton Ellis, one of my new favorite authors.
I read American Psycho, Rules of Attraction, and Less than Zero one summer and decided that I pretty much got what BEE was going for and that I didn't need to read any more of his books.
Has he broken any new ground in his new ones? I also feel this way about Milan Kundera and Richard Russo btw
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06-17-2007, 09:25 PM
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Re: Bret Easton Ellis, one of my new favorite authors.
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I read American Psycho, Rules of Attraction, and Less than Zero one summer and decided that I pretty much got what BEE was going for and that I didn't need to read any more of his books. Has he broken any new ground in his new ones? I also feel this way about Milan Kundera and Richard Russo btw [/ QUOTE ] Russo's first three books (Mohawk, The Risk Pool, and Nobody's Fool) are beautiful, magnificent things. Straight Man and Empire Falls, while decent and worthwhile, are not as effective, in my opinion.
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06-17-2007, 09:27 PM
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Re: Bret Easton Ellis, one of my new favorite authors.
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I know I'm late to the game, but I'm really diggin his books: Less than Zero, Rules of Attraction, and American Psycho. They've been out since the early ninties so I view the fact that we were'nt exposed to them in highschool literature classes, while still being forced to read dated out of touch sutff like "the catcher in the rye", another example of public educations failure. [/ QUOTE ] Catcher in the Rye is "out of touch?" Big dip on the old credibility meter there, bud.
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06-17-2007, 09:33 PM
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Re: Bret Easton Ellis, one of my new favorite authors.
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I know I'm late to the game, but I'm really diggin his books: Less than Zero, Rules of Attraction, and American Psycho. They've been out since the early ninties so I view the fact that we were'nt exposed to them in highschool literature classes, while still being forced to read dated out of touch sutff like "the catcher in the rye", another example of public educations failure. [/ QUOTE ] This post is a great example of public education's failure.
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