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[1] On Nov-21-2004, Le Pied wrote:

It's not fair !
I want to read it !
NOW !
Please help me !
I've been waiting for this book forever!
And you show us this picture just to make us drool or something!
It's not fair!!!

[2] On Nov-21-2004, Anonymous wrote:

you know i really believe that "lunar park"is going to be ellis' new boof
but that kind of picture is not a proof at all that his new book will be called lunar park...

[3] On Nov-26-2004, james wrote:

this is going to be an amazing book!

[4] On Nov-27-2004, mike wrote:

i'm still skeptical about 'lunar park.' there isn't enough known about it for me to be that excited yet. i think the glamorama movie is more realistic. whats going on with that?

[5] On Nov-28-2004, shimmy wrote:

not excited?? we haven't had an Ellis book since 1998 and your not excited?? Well, count me in for overly-excited! I personally cannot wait until next year for this.

[6] On Nov-29-2004, suicidemartini wrote:

same font and layout as the cover for the FROG KING script

[7] On Nov-30-2004, Kara wrote:

Whoa, really? Same font??? That's a little...non-traditional for a screenplay, no?

Well, either way, I am extremely excited about "Lunar Park"--something new will do me good, considering my copy of "AP" is completely falling apart due to overuse.

[8] On Dec-01-2004, Charlie wrote:

So where can we download a copy of this mauscript then? If that really is it in your photo why don't u do us all a favour and upload it onto a webpage. Spread the word. X

[9] On Dec-01-2004, Bret wrote:

Good effort Charlie, but that isn't going to happen. :)

[10] On Dec-01-2004, The Ghost of Stanley Kubrick wrote:

"And as I turned away from Sarah's room something sang out in a clear and high-pitched voice that turned into a guttural squawking -- it was coming from the bed -- and an adrenalin rush surged through me, out of me, enveloping the cavernous bedroom. I didn't look back as I raced into the hallway, the sconces flickering on and off as I rushed past them, and as I tumbled down the curving staircase, heading toward the sanctity of my office, I realized, that for me, the party had ended."

[11] On Dec-02-2004, Le Pied wrote:

Please.
Please stop now with the excerpts.
It's too hard to read them and then knowing we poor mortals (unlike you who have access to very cool stuff like BEE manuscripts) have to wait a whole year for the rest.

But God this is exciting.

[12] On Dec-03-2004, Holden wrote:

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[13] On Dec-03-2004, mike wrote:

alright fine i'll believe it, i'm excitd.

[14] On Dec-04-2004, The Ghost of Stanley Kubrick wrote:

I projected relief filling the kitchen in a great oceanic wave. I wanted badly for breakfast to end -- I closed my eyes and wished it -- and for everyone in the house to slip quietly away. And then they did.

[15] On Dec-04-2004, Kara wrote:

No!!! Do not take away the little bits and pieces that will get me through the long months until it comes out! If nobody else wants to see them, at least randomly e-mail some of us with excerpts! Hehehe...

[16] On Dec-04-2004, The Ghost. of... come on, you know who. wrote:

The novel would contain an endless series of scenes of girls storming out of rooms in high-rise condo's and the transcripts of cell phone conversations fraught with tension and camera crews following the main characters around as well as six or seven overdoses (attempts on the girl's part to get out lothario's attention). There would be thousands of Cosmopolitan's ordered and characters camcording each other having anal sex and real life porn stars making guest appearances. It was going to make Sodomania look like A Bug's Life. Chapters were titled "The Facial" "The Silicone Queen" "The Porta-John" "The Intrepid Threesome" "Her Boobage" "The Cliterati" "The Getaway" "Hairy Pinkish Taco's" "Am I Too Big For You?" "You Know, I Really Don't Want A Girlfriend Right Now" "Look, I Have To Catch An Early Flight, Okay?" "Hey -- Did You Get A Chance To Pick Up My Dry Cleaning?" "I Am Probably Going To Be Quite Distant Now" and "Do You Mind If I Just Jack-Off?"

[17] On Dec-05-2004, K wrote:

What font is that?

[18] On Dec-05-2004, jeremy wrote:

yeah, i want details about the manuscript. what font is it? is it double-spaced? is it justified? details, please.

[19] On Dec-08-2004, ray wrote:

i'm totally salivating here....

[20] On Dec-12-2004, Tom wrote:

This book better be amazing. I really enjoy Ellis' work, but Glamorama really quite boring and useless, and I wasn't a fan of American Psycho, so I'm hoping Lunar Park is a great one. However, seeing as how my faith in Ellis' ability to write something fresh and new is shaky, I think I'll just wait for the paperback version. Ellis has been sort of like a broken record these past couple of books, so I'm hoping all this time between books is a good thing, and that he proves he has new ideas and things to say. People as vacuous, insipid shells: I get it, I'm so over it, let's move on. Give us something new.

Oh yeah, that picture? Proves nothing.

[21] On Dec-12-2004, beest wrote:

I agree that the picture proves nothing. Anyone could type up a cover page like that. There also appears to be other text whited out between the Title and Author name which raises more questions of authenticity. This type of evidence might pass muster with 60 Minutes but I think all we've got here is a barnes & noble clerk trying to obtain a false sense of importance/superiority. Nice try though...you too kubrick.

[22] On Dec-13-2004, Kubrick wrote:

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself over the long haul, is that at some point, you buy a ticket too. Thomas McGuane

People who have made up their minds about a man do not like to have their opinions changed, to reverse their judgments on account of some new evidence or new arguments, and the man who tries to compel them to change their minds is at least wasting his time, and he may be asking for trouble. John O'Hara

From the table of my memory / I'll wipe away all trivial fond records / All saw of books, all forms, / All pressures past / That youth and obversation copies there. "Hamlet"

[23] On Dec-13-2004, G A R Y F I S K E T J O N wrote:

Part of the town we lived in seemed dreamt up and fractured and modern: tilted buildings widely spaced apart with facades that resembled cascading ribbons, and concrete slabs fluttering over each other, and electronic signs were wrapped around the buildings, and there were gigantic liquid-crystal display screens, and zip strips quoting stock prices and delivering the day's headlines, and neon decorated the court house, and a Jumbotron TV was perched above the Bloomingdale's that took up four blocks of downtown where military helicopters flew between silver towers. But once you left that area this was also a town with a 2000 acre nature preserve and horse farms and two golf courses and there were more children's book stores than there were Barnes & Nobles. The drive to the college took me past numerous playgrounds and a baseball field and on Main Street where I stopped to buy a Starbucks latte there were a variety of gourmet food stores as well as a first-class cheese shop, a row of patisseries, a friendly pharmacist who filled my Klonopin and Xanax prescriptions, an understated Cineplex and a family-run hardware store and all the streets were lined with magnolia and dogwood and cherry trees. At a stoplight festooned with fresh flowers I watched as a chipmunk climbed a telephone pole while I sipped my non-fat latte. The latte revived me to the point where the hangover seemed like something that happened last week. And I was suddenly, inexplicably content as I drove through the town's shady streets. I passed a potato field. I passed horses grazing outside a barn. And the security guard at the gates leading up to the campus tipped his hat to me as I raised my latte, acknowledging him.

[24] On Dec-13-2004, beest wrote:

Yeah, yeah yeah...John Lennon

[25] On Dec-13-2004, John Lennon wrote:

I closed my eyes again. I did not want to go back to that book. It had been about my father (his rage, his obsession with status, his loneliness) who I transformed into a fictional serial killer and I did not want to put myself through the experience again -- of revisiting either Robert Ellis or Patrick Bateman. I had now come to an age where I had moved past the casual carnage that was so present in the books I conceived when I was in my twenties; past the severed heads and the soup made from blood and the woman vaginally penetrated with her own rib. Exploring that kind of violence had been "interesting" and "exciting" and it was all "metaphorical" anyway -- at least to me at that moment in my life, when I was young and pissed-off and had not yet grapsed my own mortality, a time when physical pain and real suffering held no meaning for me. I was "transgressive" and the book was really about "style" and there was no point now in reliving the crimes and the horror that Patrick Bateman inspired. Sitting in my office in front of Kimball I realized I had fantasized, various times, about this exact moment. This was the moment everything that detractors of the book had warned me about: that if anything happened to anyone as a result of the publication of this novel Bret Easton Ellis was to blame. Gloria Steinem had sat across from Larry King in the winter of 1991 and had reiterated this over and over and which was the reason why the National Organization for Women had boycotted the book. (In a small world filled with black ironies Miss Steinem eventually married David Bale, the father of the actor who played Patrick Bateman in the movie). I thought the idea was laughable -- there was no one as insane and vicious as this fictional creation out there in the real world. Plus Patrick Bateman was a notoriously unreliable narrator and if one actually read the book you could come away doubting that these crimes even occurred. There were large hints that they existed only in Bateman's mind. That the murders and torture were in-fact fantasies fueled by his rage and fury over the way life in America was structed, and had -- no matter the size of his wealth -- trapped him. The fantasies were an escape. This was the book's thesis. It was a concept. It was about society and manners and mores and not about cutting up women. How could anyone who had read the book not see this? Yet because of the severity of the outcries over the novel, never far away was the fear that maybe it was not such a laughable idea; always lurking was indeed the worry over what would happen if this book fell into the wrong hands. Who knew, then, what it could inspire? And after the killings in Toronto it was no longer lurking -- it was real, it existed, taunting me. But that had been over ten years ago -- a decade had passed -- and nothing remotely similar had come up. The book had made me wealthy and famous and I never wanted to touch it again. And now it all came rushing back. But I found myself in Patrick Bateman's shoes: I felt like the unreliable narrator even though I knew I wasn't. Yet then I thought: well, had he?

[26] On Dec-13-2004, beest wrote:

Always lurking was indeed the worry over what would happen if this book fell into the wrong hands. Bret Easton Ellis

[27] On Dec-13-2004, charlie wrote:

Wow. My last entry here was on Dec 1st where I asked for the manuscript to be uploaded if that really was it in the picture... A lot seems to have past since then. The above excerpts that have been displayed for us, do (I admit)sound pretty "Ellisian", but if they're not in the final published draft of Lunar Park when it comes out next year I'll definitely be losing all faith in these kinds of sites. It's not fair to lead genuinely interested people up the garden path... But maybe we're all just asking for it... ?

[28] On Dec-13-2004, Anonymous wrote:

The only reason these "quotes" sound like Ellis is because they're basically American Psycho Cliff notes. The fact that Lunar Park's plot is widely known and that Ellis' themes are extremely redundant makes him an easy target for literary counterfeit. Add two cups of american culture, sprinkle generously with gratuitous sex, violence, and your occasional overdose and you've got your very own copy of Lunar Park but no life. Also, if someone was actually privy to this manuscript before publication, would they really be dumb enough to jeopardize their position by posting it all over the author's website? I doubt it.

[29] On Dec-14-2004, Bret wrote:

Just to clear one thing up that was raised by #28 - this is not the author's website. This site is entirely unofficial, and I do not know who is posting all the excerpts.

I will at this point say that I'm becoming uncomfortable w/ the number of and extent of the excerpts being posted here in the comments and would ask that whomever is doing it to please stop. At the current pace, the entire book will be here in the comments prior to its publication - and thats not good for anybody.

I'm sure its not how Mr. Ellis would want his work distributed, and its also not a good way to read the book as it makes little sense out of context. Plus, I really don't want to get a cease & desist letter for Christmas.

So please, no more excerpts. And on the off-chance that our excerpt-poster happens to be working for Mr. Ellis, I'd appreciate it if you could clue me in to your 'strategy'. That way I can clearly know whats acceptable and whats not. Until I hear otherwise though, I'm going to remove any additional excerpts posted here.

[30] On Dec-14-2004, Bret wrote:

In response to #21, the 'other text whited out' that you see is from the 2nd page of the manuscript. Since its printed on cheap, low-weight paper, the text shows thru. The same thing can be seen on the 'empty' lines on the bottom volume in the photo. Look closely, and there is text bleeding thru.