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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780679743248 ISBN: 0679743243 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: August 01, 1995 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: August 01, 1995 Studio: Vintage Editorial Review: Product Description: This powerful and poignant novel of L.A., from the author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho, depicts a generation's overwhelming dissatisfaction with the way things are, and its insistence on remaining as detached and isolated as possible. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Informers was NothingI gave up on this book after 130 out of 225 pages. The book was recommended on NPR as good vacation reading. The characters did nothing, said nothing, and did not interact. All they did was take Valium and Librium because they were so bored. The author did not convince me that their nihilistic lives were interesting enough to waste any more of my vacation time on their boring lives. Rating:  - Going through his hoopsThe Informers is a novel composing of fragmentary stories mixing up characters who are distinguished only by their conformity. They are all rich, all tan, all psychically rootless and morally deracinated, and all dysfunctional. They go through life as beneficiaries of capitalism, with no apparent purpose other than to enjoy pleasure in capsule form, take drugs, drink and discuss and 'enjoy' their material wealth. Ellis has done this theme before in his early 20s novels. Reading it is rather like ... Read More Rating: - A lesser Ellis novelAs a huge fan of Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho," "The Informers" struck me as underwhelming. Viewed as a series of short stories, the book moves fast, intrigues, and works reasonably well. As a novel, however, Ellis has trouble weaving his characters from one story to the next (i.e. the narrator of one story might be a minor character in another, or only mentioned in passing). And, although it's part of his point in portraying the early-'80s L.A.-set milieu, all of the characters seem so shallow ... Read More Rating:  - Never a dull moment...Bret Easton Ellis has always been a personal favorite of mine, ever since the days of reading `Less than Zero' and `Rules of Attraction' and realizing that this guy is a literary genius. Reading `The Informers' though gives me an even more solid belief in the power within this mans pen-strokes, for with a collection this strong penned so young (he wrote all of these short stories while still in college before publishing his debut at the age of 20) there is no doubt in my mind that Ellis is a living legend. ... Read More Rating:  - Outstanding, yet least read book by BEEEach chapter, or should I say story, of this book is very well written. Each character has a different voice, and all stories are interested. I have trouble trying to understand why this book is not more popular amongst readers and BEE fans alike. |
