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Bret Easton Ellis


Born
in Los Angeles, California, The United States
March 07, 1964

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Satire, Fiction

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Don DeLillo, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Gustave Flauber ...more


Bret Easton Ellis is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. His novels commonly share recurring characters.
When Ellis was 21, his first novel, the controversial bestseller Less than Zero (1985), was published by Simon & Schuster. His third novel, American Psycho (1991), was his most successful. Upon its release the literary establishment widely condemned it as overly violent and misogynistic. Though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy convinced Alfred A. Knopf to release it as a paperback later that y ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 625,036 ratings · 43,132 reviews · 32 distinct works â€� Similar authors
American Psycho
3.81 avg rating — 343,054 ratings — published 1991 — 258 editions
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Less Than Zero
3.60 avg rating — 93,550 ratings — published 1985 — 156 editions
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The Rules of Attraction
3.72 avg rating — 49,961 ratings — published 1987 — 108 editions
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The Shards
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35,702 ratings — published 2023 — 14 editions
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Lunar Park
3.65 avg rating — 30,060 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Glamorama
3.55 avg rating — 24,859 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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The Informers
3.40 avg rating — 19,599 ratings — published 1994 — 90 editions
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Imperial Bedrooms
3.20 avg rating — 20,224 ratings — published 2010 — 65 editions
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White
3.48 avg rating — 5,671 ratings — published 2019 — 44 editions
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Water from the Sun and Disc...
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“...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
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“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
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“All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.”
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