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Pros
The author's vivid descriptions, nostalgic backdrop, and details of time and place make the book shine! This book is disturbing and gruesome and dealt with content matter that i usually shy away from. Thank you netgalley and knopf publishing group for... Read More
The story is compelling from the outset yet manages to keep the reader invested and hungry. At no time is the reader unaware of where the story is headed or how it will end, and it’s because of this that the reader can relish the details, eagerly awai... Read More
A wicked, gritty, edgy tale with dark undertones. The storytelling is exceptional and the suspense factor is high.
As an angeleno too young to remember the 80’s this really delivered in terms of time and place. A nostalgic flashback for gen x. Growing up privileged and dealing with the atrocities of the 80's.
Cons
This one’s starts interestingly enough, but quickly becomes a repetitive mess. Sorry, ellis. Your creative well is dry. None so blind….
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Quality
Its a book about affluent teenagers in la in the early 80s certainly not an unexplored era but the quality of the storytelling ... Read More
While this is happening bret is piecing together facts about a serial killer known as the trawler and finding consistencies wit... Read More
He doesnt necessarily fit in with the barbie and ken dolls that surround him
If youre fine with the blooddrenched imagery conjured up in american psycho but upset by the sexual content of the shards that ... Read More
Packaging/appearance
In what feels like a return to his roots the shards touches on all the things i love and hate about los angeles the dry howling... Read More
34american psycho34 just blew me away as i read it while working in nyc in the 1990s
Competitiveness
I will never forget how bret serialized the shards on his patreon podcast a new chapter every two weeks for about a year
All the chapters are linked at the beginning of his patreon page and it is an experience you will never forget
This is a looooooong one so strap yourself in if you plan to read it
Come for the 80s details—the music the movies the clothes
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- This product had a total of 2,133 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 11 2023.
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I often forced myself to slow down to enjoy the writing and not just follow the story
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Disclaimer thank you netgalley and knopf for this review copy and i am leaving this review voluntarily
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Lots and lots of lurid gay sex
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Some other reviewers however are separating the typical bret violence from a tender remembrance of things past on display in the new work
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Like contemplating hiroshima and nagasaki is too much
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Like a francis bacon painting of the pope is too much
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