Title: Too close to the truth
Product review: Although the people and places he writes about seem like a different world to me (seeing as I'm an eighteen-year-old English boy!), I don't think I have ever read a more compelling writer then Bret Easton Ellis. In this novel, the third of his I have read, he portrays an almost nightmare vision of the 'American Dream' gone horribly wrong. The casualness with which the characters lead their nihilistic lives is at times disturbing, at other times hilarious. The endless spiral of drugs, sex, suicide and parties still holds frightening relevance today, but what sets this out from other Bret Easton Ellis novels is the caring heart it has: despite the flaws of these spoilt-rich-kids, they all have one noble quest in their lives; the pursuit of love. Where the novel excels is how it poignantly describes the hopelessness of this eternal search, and how it shows the desperation the human spirit can sink to in it's pursuit of this unobtainable goal.
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