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It's because of Charlie rose

You're right, much more than he is in his podcasts!

@@tcrijwanachoudhury stop spamming lady

@@alexj.denton7453 Charlie Rose is a very gifted interviewer. Too bad all the harassment stuff happened.

HAHAHA HAHAHAAAAAAAAAA

I think he entirely realizes how smart it is

It's always a JOY reading BEE.

Agreed. It reminds me of that famous passage in the Socrates _Apology_ when he described poets as sort of ‘soothsayers’ & ‘diviners’ who call upon ideas and patterns that go beyond the poet’s normal levels of explanatory power, yet the poet can still ‘embody’ or capture what they are channeling through the poetically arranged words.

A few of his ideas are fairly good as a sort of caricature of modern “culture” which American Psycho and Glamorama do fairly well but shit like Less Than Zero, Imperial Bedrooms and The Informers are an example of his original First-Person Cookiecutter style consisting of loosely connected dialogue and monologue heavy scenes that get repetitive quickly.

As personable as Charlie Rose was it was definitely a feature of his style to blow questions and get ahead of himself.

Alexandra M Not much to think about; his work has all the depth of a car park puddle.

@@kelman727 Not really. You just gotta stop being like one of his characters and look past the surface.

is there much to think? I enjoy it all the same.

@@kelman727 does it matter? it's still enjoyable.

just got to the turn and holy shit

I don't think it would be published in these times. They won't even publish Milo Minnopoulous books and all he does is flint and act sarcastic. It's very hard for writers to push the boundaries without risk of censorship.

plz dont compare Bret with that trash. it doesnt make any sense @@willrueb9573

It's become a part of our culture. Our common language. When someone mentions "A Patrick Bateman type" we all know exactly what that means. It's really amazing, because I was around when that book came out, and it was buried.

So…bi?

No, his sexual preferences are irrelevant. This was 8 months ago, and I don't remember exactly what I was reacting to. But I will listen again to see and get back to you. @@theSupercasa

It's that he is very clear-eyed, almost aggressively honest, in his reflection on himself. And balanced, accepting the bad with the good. Not apologizing for the bad. Not sentimentalizing anything. And he is confident and comfortable with that honesty. And he speaks with a chest voice, unlike Millennial males, who tend to speak with head voices. It's a very '80s male persona. @@theSupercasa

That’s sort of ridiculous, lol imagine being in trouble in school for reading?? Is it any wonder if people read at all nowadays. lol

I read it at lunch in middle school and the teachers who do lunch duty don't have any problem with it. I read Rules of Attraction, Less Than Zero, and American Psycho during my free time at school as well.

Who ARE you?

Jake Gyllenhaal can pull off both the charming and menacing bits enough to pull off Bobby Hughes. Meanwhile I could see Ansel Elgort playing Victor.

Clive Owen would have been a perfect Bobby Hughes.

Jacob Elordi

For Victor I'd choose Miles Teller

@@katie2275 agreed

he did lol. he was in new york for most of the 80s. living that life.

@@drinkingpoolwater that sounds awful.

@@bluebellbeatnik4945why’s that

@@goldproductionsofficial9949 excess, cocaine, bad music, STDs, i mean...

Two years before Zoolander

It's not all that surprising. Bret struggles with a need to re-write and self edit. He does outlines, with a lot of detail, before actually doing a first draft. I heard him say recently that he spent a year on an outline.

​@@glenfahselt8378 Well the fact that he spent 5 years writing it is some further confirmation to me that it's a quality piece of literature. If I put 20 books on my bookshelf as " quality prosaic works " then Glamorama would be one of them, along with other 'notable standalone' works, a bit like a " hit song " from an artist which created 99 bad songs, with 1 really good hit song. Other works in that category include " The Girl Who Played Go ", " Ender's Game ". Where the author created 1 masterpiece (only). I wouldn't call " American Psycho " a masterpiece, as many people can't even finish the book when it derails into the category of 'vivid gore', like: " I was walking down a dark alley... suddenly a saw a homeless man with a dog, I pulled out my knife and embarked on a mission to strangulate the homeless man's neck with the dog's intestines ".. it's like ok what is this..? Yet the book turned into a famous Hollywood movie in which he probably made millions from the BluRay sales alone. Glamorama, much like the other 2 I just mentioned, have the quality of being 'deep & fascinating', like: " I just read this book for 48 hours straight, wow, that was great. ", that type of immersion is possible in these 3. Like: " Thanks so much for lending me that book, best book I ever read //quote from 2002 & 2003 ".

@@Xenon777channel Sure, Glamorama's his best book, but he's certainly not like a one-hit music wonder. He hasn't written a bad book, and his first four are all great. Btw, authors almost always get a one-time up-front payment for movie adaptations; he didn't make anything extra on the video sales.

@@williambartholmey5946 Thank you for the extra info. So Glamorama is his best book as some sort of accepted fact amongst people which have read all of his books, or just your personal opinion? And yes I agree that he isn't a " One hit wonder " as with many authors & music composers.

@@Xenon777channelhe actually spend 8 years writing it

He's not a misogynist, sadly.

what makes you say that? 🤔

@@alexj.denton7453 this a concerning comment 💀

Anyone who thinks BEA is a misogynist bc of his characters and topics is extremely narrow minded.

That was his appeal. He is uninteresting but has interesting guests.

Try Thomas Harris

Who is this comment aimed at? And Harris is an average author who writes plain paperback thrillers they sell at airport bookstores to quickly digest during a flight, one or two of which made for better movie(s) than the damn book. The only reason anyone remembers Harris' books is because of the popularity of the movie version of SOTL. Ellis became an overnight literary celebrity while still in college when he wrote what became arguably the coming-of-age novel of the 80's (Less Than Zero), and later a satire that drew intense reactions, still holds up today, and pushed the boundaries of expression (A.P.).

@@thecriticandtheuncle5784 Thomas Harris has written interesting books which have 0 depth outside of their plot

Read The Shards. It's brilliant.