Imperial Bedrooms

Just ordered my copy off ebay

It means i have to re-read Less then Zero again! (which is no bad thing) but im looking forward to a new BEE book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Bedrooms

P.S thanks to BEE's recommendation, the national's new album ''ultra violet'' is excellent, well worth a listen if you like joy division or jesus and mary chain type bands

i'm definitely looking forward to this one as well. hopefully this one is better than his last book 'lunar park'. not that it was all that bad but just weird with its flirtings with the supernatural.

i should probably pick up less than zero again so i can pull the trigger on reading this new book. but considering that i've read less than zero about 3 or 4 times, i can't imagine it would take more than a day.

I thoroughly enjoyed Lunar Park, I am a fan of Stephen King so it went hand in hand my favorite author writing in the style of my 2nd favorite.

I listened to the audio book of Lunar park as well read by James Van Der Beak and i thought i read it very well.

i should probably give lunar park another try. i'd bet that my disappointments were in expecting something totally different than what it actually was, but i think disappointment is probably too strong of a word. the first half or so of the book was very good indeed.

i never read any stephen king so the references to king's style are lost on me. but that does put things more in perspective.

edit: i should also mention that i did heavily enjoy the strong references in lunar park to 'hamlet'. especially since i would never immediately make correlations between shakespeare and ellis.

Excellent, i was starting to wonder what happened to this guy. I shall be picking this up. I really liked Lunar Park.

I could never really get into BEE... seemed way to self-indulgent and forced. I own all his literature, but I guess I'm just waiting for his masterpiece because I know he has one in him.

Hated Lunar Park

Loved Imperial Bedrooms

Glamourama is still my favourite tho.

  On 7/16/2010 at 9:30 PM, mosca said:

 

Glamourama is still my favourite tho.

One of the most entertaining books ever written. Would be stoked to read it again.

  On 7/16/2010 at 8:14 PM, goffer said:

I could never really get into BEE... seemed way to self-indulgent and forced. I own all his literature, but I guess I'm just waiting for his masterpiece because I know he has one in him.

its easy either American Psycho or Glamorama

also i really enjoyed rules of attraction as well

  On 7/16/2010 at 11:03 PM, chris moss acid said:

  On 7/16/2010 at 8:14 PM, goffer said:

I could never really get into BEE... seemed way to self-indulgent and forced. I own all his literature, but I guess I'm just waiting for his masterpiece because I know he has one in him.

 

 

its easy either American Psycho or Glamorama

 

 

also i really enjoyed rules of attraction as well

Like I said... I own it all, read through most of them, but in the end, despite finding them somewhat engaging, I find them to be self-indulgent and forced... like a bad J. G. Ballard.

i liked lunar park, and loved american psycho. however, less than zero bored me to fucking tears.