I don't like
bragging.
Really, I don't. But it's a funny story. My cousin, Annette (not real name) lives out of the country, and is fairly good friends with
Whit Stilman's daughter. So, she
gossips with her a lot about the
highbrow folks who have
part-ays with her family. One day, they got on the subject of
American Psycho, and how she wanted to see it when it came out. Annette's friend started talking about Bret Easton Ellis, and how he was a "
mean drunk that nobody liked." Yeah, yeah, that was a
useless boring story.
On a more
factual note, Ellis wrote a lot of
novels about
rich, white, coke addicts doing lots of very
tasteless stuff. However, he also wrote
The Rules Of Attraction, about rich "
bohemians" at college, swapping sex partners, and
American Psycho, a book about a
successful,
attractive coke addict who kills other people for fun. Traits include:
disaffected narrating, lots of
gore, lots of "shocking events" and general
disdain for the reader. You can love him, hate him, or find him boring. Most famous for
Less Than Zero, the aforementioned Psycho, and
Glamorama.