Imagine becoming a bestselling novelist, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, while after "American Psycho" your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze, and drugs. Then imagine having a second chance ten years later, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given, with a wife, children, and suburban sobriety-only to watch this new life shatter beyond recognition in a matter ...
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Imagine becoming a bestselling novelist, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, while after "American Psycho" your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze, and drugs. Then imagine having a second chance ten years later, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given, with a wife, children, and suburban sobriety-only to watch this new life shatter beyond recognition in a matter of days. At a fateful Halloween party he glimpses a disturbing (fictional) character driving a car identical to his late father's, his stepdaughter's doll violently "malfunctions," and their house undergoes bizarre transformations both within and without. Connection these aberrations to graver events-a series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his son's age-Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace even as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania. "Lunar Park" confounds one expectation after another, in what is surely the most powerfully original and deeply moving novel of an extraordinary career.
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Lunar Park is a unique twist of fact and fiction. Elis crafts a fictitious life around the basic truths in his life. In Lunar Park the main character is Bret Easton Ellis who has written Less Than Zero, American Psycho, and Glamorama. When a personal tragedy occurs ellis is forced to grow up and move to the suburbs and become a family man. Not long into this lifestyle bizzare events seem to be haunting ellis. Basically a tale of relationships and forgiveness with the common ellis style attached to it this novel falls short of his previous work. I definately see some influence from Danielewski's House Of Leaves intentional or not it is in there. If you are looking for the same shocking scenes you experienced in American Psycho you will not find them here. Still worth reading i emjoyed the change of pace for an ellis book.
bookboy
May 17, 2007
Ellis writing horror? I'm not buying it.
Lunar Park reads like a cross between House of Leaves and The Dark Half. Whereas those were both very chiling reads, Lunar Park is not and instead comes across as an indulgent self promoting gimic. Ellis casts himself as the protagonist and after a compelling first chapter the novel falls flat under it's ridiculously unbelievable plot. I'm not sure if it's unbelievable because it's horror and I don't think Ellis is a good horror writer or because it was just plan bad. Maybe it's a combination of both. Don't get me wrong, I am a HUGE fan of Ellis and his writing is as crisp and breezy and enjoyable as ever but the story stinks. The plot in a nutshell: Ellis' house is morphing into another house, his daughter's stuffed bird is haunted, he's receiving blank emails from his dead father, Patrick Bateman (crazy guy from American Psycho) is real and recreating the murders from American Psycho and young boys are coming up missing. Bret is constantly drunk and drugged up so we're unsure if it's real or all in his head. Ellis is a great yet stagnant writer who has essentially been rewritng the same story over and over again. I can understand wanting to branch out but this novel is disappointing, convoluted and collapses under the weight of it's ambition. Since Glamorama, Ellis is hitting a downward spiral in nonsensical bloated egomaniacal novels and Lunar Park is no exception. At one point in the novel Bret proclaims this will be his last novel. Let's hope that's true if he plans on writing more drivel like this.
