Lunar Park

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• Who's fooling whom?

  Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis 308pp, Picador, £16.99 The questions writers are most often asked at public events - apart from whether they use pen or keyboard and what they think of any films made from their books - are where they get their ideas f ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Beauty and the beastly

  Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis Picador £16.99, pp308 Bret Easton Ellis's new novel is a curiosity, but not quite a failure. It's a postmodern ghost story about a writer haunted by his own past and his own literary creations. Stephen King has turned ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

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  It's mostly a story about father to son relationships, redemption, and facing the past.
  The style is perfect. And the chic suburbs life might actually be the scariest thing in this book.
  It's a little bit sleazy, it's funny, it's moving, it's terrifying, it's sad.
  Lunar park is BEE's ... (continue)

  It's mostly a story about father to son relationships, redemption, and facing the past.
  The style is perfect. And the chic suburbs life might actually be the scariest thing in this book.
  It's a little bit sleazy, it's funny, it's moving, it's terrifying, it's sad.
  Lunar park is BEE's most approachable novel, less name-dropping, less sleaze, more plot, more emotion.

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  My Darlin Clementine said on Mar 18, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Wtf wtf wtf?!?
  A voyeuristic, trippy ride.
  I alternately both loved and hated this book: sometimes I thought it was brilliant, sometimes awfully tacky. Postmodern horror?
  If you like it, go find the album 'Fear of a blank planet' by Porcupine Tree, inspired by this book.

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  Sengaia said on Apr 27, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 368 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0330440012
• ISBN-13: 9780330440011
• Publisher: Vintage/ Random House
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2006
• Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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