"I’m into murders and executions"

i have just finished watching American Psycho, which was a really interesting film. Disturbingly brilliant. The acting was great as well, with Christian Bale (who played Patrick Bateman) surprising me with his performance. But what makes the film different is that it is based on a story by Bret Easton Ellis, who I am now starting to get into.

I normally do not read fiction, but I did read Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis, which impressed me as well. It was flawed, but still brilliant book. He references a lot of his earlier books there and is actually the main character as well. I read the book without having read the earlier books. I had seen one film made after a book of Mr Ellis before, which was called The Rules of Attraction.

UPDATE (03.09). It seems that Lunar Park has also been reviewed by others in Estonia. I should say something more about my own experience with the book. It was exciting, but scary at the same time. The first part of the book with the incessant drugtaking, drinking etc gives a really bleak look at Ellis’ life, whereas the latter part, where different realities are mixed so much that you cannot really understand what is real any more, is strangely more optimistic, as Ellis the character finally takes his destiny into his hands and fights the (unreal) demons.

In the end I liked the book not so much because of the story or the characters, but how it was written to create atmoshpere and emotional response in the reader. I strongly recommend to read it, even if you are not really a book reading person.