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Review title: Shallowness Reaches New Depths
Product review: With this book, Bret Easton Ellis has invented new ways of sucking up contemporary literature. I can't believe I read the whole thing; it's not as if there was anything enjoyable or resourceful about it. In fact, I'll say if your idea of a good time is masturbation and murder, this is your new manual. This guy is the literary equivalent of John Hinkley, Jr. That bit about Jamie Gertz? Whatever. It's as though Ellis tried to compress an INXS video into the space of 400 pages. All that self-righteous bum torture and the horribly monotonous insights into what everyone was wearing? It drove me up the wall! How'd he get away with publishing this?! I thought the days of William S. Burroughs and purposless polemics were gone forever, but I guess I was wrong. Seal the vault on this steaming pile and read something else. So vain and meritricious! I'm going to go sedate myself, watch Bambi, and wash my brain out with soap.
