Read my ★★★★★ review of #BretEastonEllis's newest novel, #TheShards. How interesting -- one of the architects of the White Male Postmodernist Generation-X Tarantino 1990s Arts Patriarchy, now embracing sincere emotions and Complex Feels for the first time in his career, and turning in an incredibly insightful and entertaining story about the infinite drama that comes with being teenage and gay in a setting where they can’t be public about it.
www.goodreads.comJason Pettus's review of The Shards5/5: 2024 reads, #67. It occurred to me last week when I picked up Bret Easton Ellis’s latest novel, The Shards, published about a year and a half ago but that I’m just now getting to, that he’s one of the few authors out there I’m a legitimate completist of, meaning I’ve read literally every novel he’s ever written. Technically I suppose that should make him appear in my Great Completist Challenge I regularly add to here at Goodreads, about two dozen writers strong at this point; the problem, though, is that I’ve read very few of Ellis’s novels since joining Goodreads way back in 2006, so I did...
