Previous Comments

[1] On Jun-09-2005, Kyle wrote:

A follow up to Less Than Zero? Yeah, great. Nothing screams "over-the-hill burnout" quite like trying desperately to capitalize on an idea one had at age 20.

[2] On Jun-09-2005, wrote:

jesus it's hinted at as a possibility.. don't jump to judgements.

[3] On Jun-09-2005, Andy wrote:

I would much rather BEE write another novel than spend his time doing a movie adaptation of another author's book...

Lunar Park is going to be fantastic.

[4] On Jun-09-2005, JMB wrote:

Good lord Jayne Dennis is Hideous! I swear that face is photoshopped...

[5] On Jun-10-2005, micah welner wrote:

A follow up to Less Than Zero is the best thing I've heard in a long time. No other character in any Ellis novel has been more interesting to me than Clay. If it's for real, I'm jumping up and down, here.

Also, I'd like to point out that Lunar Park's release date is August 16th, which happens to be my 22nd birthday, and somewhat of a minor Ellis reference in general.

[6] On Jun-11-2005, suicide wrote:

the Jayne Dennis pics are obviously photoshopped

[7] On Jun-11-2005, Kenneth wrote:

The Sequel: Clay and Blair are married, childless and live in Topanga among the aging hippies, former celebrity animals and washed up child stars. Trent visits often. He is now a woman. While Blair is away at rehab (the twenty-first time in time in twenty years) for bulimia, meth, or middle age, Clay has an affair with a former Buckley student half his age. It all ends very, very badly.

[8] On Jun-12-2005, Kyle wrote:

You forgot to mention the former Buckley student is male and he and Clay meet while doing coke in a nameless club.

[9] On Jun-12-2005, Andy wrote:

Bret,
When can we expect a Lunar Park review from you?(still too early?)

[10] On Jun-12-2005, Kenneth wrote:

That's true Kyle. Is Cartman here too?

[11] On Jun-12-2005, Micah Welner wrote:

what about julian? dude.

[12] On Jun-12-2005, Kenneth wrote:

Julian died in a freak cosmetic surgery accident. It was terribly tragic. He comes back in the third part of the trilogy (with ewoks!) as zombie Julian.

[13] On Jun-12-2005, Kyle wrote:

I stumbled upon the manuscript for Less Than One today, but I only got to read the first line...

"People are afraid to merge on freeways in Topanga."

[14] On Jun-12-2005, Kenneth wrote:

"People are afraid to merge on freeways in Topanga."

That is probably literally true. The main road through town is a twisty perilous (often two lane) thing (like virtually all the roads over the santa monica mountains), rich in homicidal drunks, and often used for chase scenes in 1970s and 80s TV shows (this incidentally is one of the strange things about growing up in LA - much of what one sees [or at least used to see] on TV is also somewhere you pass on the way to the beach, or Disneyland, or your mother's guru).

[15] On Jun-13-2005, Taylor wrote:

7 thru 14...Why post this crap?
(Down below is the Less Than Zero post)
Who cares how you would write the next book.(You must be young guys or something huh?)

[16] On Jun-13-2005, Taylor wrote:

And don't forget: I'm a complete asshole.

[17] On Jun-13-2005, Kyle wrote:

Good job at recognizing sarcasm, Taylor. We weren't saying how we would write the next book, we were mocking how Bret probably will. That is, if he's writing it at all.

[18] On Jun-13-2005, Taylor wrote:

It stands to reason. I'm a complete idiot as well.

[19] On Jun-13-2005, Taylor wrote:

You'll forgive my original post (15). It's the tourrette's talking.

[20] On Jun-13-2005, The (REAL) Taylor wrote:

You just confirmed it for me...boys! I'm one of the few women that probably participate here...(my friend told me about the site a few weeks ago)

Yes,he's writing Kyle...a new book called 'Something Less Than Zero'(and your in it!)

[21] On Jun-13-2005, Kyle wrote:

"Yes,he's writing Kyle...a new book called 'Something Less Than Zero'(and your in it!)"

Honestly, that was one of the poorest insults ever directed at me (and not just because of its solecism). Surely you could have done better.

I'm done.

[22] On Jun-13-2005, Andy wrote:

So are posts 16 thru 21 written by the same person??
I would appreciate it if we kept the disscusion to whatever Bret's topic header is.The guy puts alot of his time into this site.

When Lunar Park is released this nonsense has to stop.

[23] On Jun-14-2005, james948 wrote:

I agree. This is an excellent site; the only one I can make out for BEE news and developments.

A forum would be nice though; where we can put our own topics up. This is probably why people post irrelevant stuff.

For instance; i would like to know if anyone wants to sell their proof of lunar park to me?

[24] On Jun-14-2005, Jeff wrote:

Stop talking right now, everyone.

[25] On Jun-15-2005, Bob wrote:

I can talk if I want to...

[26] On Jun-15-2005, ? wrote:

so can I, dammit.
So how about a forum?

Lunar Park is being serialised in the national newspapers in the Uk.
sounds exciting!

[27] On Jun-15-2005, Bret Schlyer wrote:

Here is why there is no forum. If anybody has suggestions for a secure platform for one, I'd be interested.

[28] On Jun-15-2005, Jeff wrote:

I told everyone to stop talking because people are bickering and it's not only childish but stupid, so stop talking.

[29] On Jun-16-2005, Jimmy wrote:

I have the advanced reader's gallies of Lunar Park. I read the first ten or so pages and it was very gripping. This strikes me as one of the most original works in literature in god knows how long. And I'm only on page 10.

[30] On Jun-16-2005, James wrote:

oh. i'm sorry bret. i shoudl have done a little research. come to think of it i do remember reading about this at the time.

Has anyone noticed that all the Torrent sites have teh same forum; i think they just use the same script.
I'm not v well versed in all this but if someone would give Bret a hand in making a secure forum i'm sure he (and everyone else) would much appreciate it.

anyway, not complaining. thanks for the site. Like I say it's the best around.

James

[31] On Jun-16-2005, mitch wrote:

I like Less Than Zero just the way it is. I do not desire to know what ever happened to Clay. I feel if Bret writes a sequal he will destroy what Less Than Zero represents. I do not mind him writing about another group of generation X kids facing the facts of life in the 21st century. I do mind him writing sequal to a book which in my view has a good enough ending. I would even consider not to read Less Than Zero 2 if it was published just because I love Less Than Zero 1 that much.

[32] On Jun-16-2005, James wrote:

Mitch, I understand what you're saying but don't you think that perhaps all of Bret's books since LTZ have been 'sequels' ?

Though not linear (remember the 'facts even when beaded on a string quotation from the beginning of Rules of Attraction?) they all form pieces of a puzzle.

In my opinion Bret's work exposes and subverts the artificiality of the sequel, dipping back and forth between times, people and events.

What do you think ?

[33] On Jun-16-2005, Jeff wrote:

I think you should get out more often.

[34] On Jun-17-2005, James wrote:

Jeff, to be honest, you don't seem all that sharp so it's probably best if you keep your comments to yourself.

[35] On Jun-17-2005, mitch wrote:

James, I didn't really think about it that way. I guess Ellis does not recycle his ideas but keeps on going deeper and deeper into the characters life, you're right, going back and forth. I admit though I don't like that he tries to connect characters together. Just becasue I don't believe people are connected. But then again in Ellis' work are the characters actually connected?

[36] On Jun-17-2005, James wrote:

what do you mean by connected?
James

[37] On Jun-17-2005, mitch wrote:

For example in Rules Of Attraction all the character are connected with each other even though they don't know it.

[38] On Jun-17-2005, James wrote:

Ah. Gotcha.
I agree that these connections aren't necessarily "realistic," but I see them as emphasising them as a creation, i.e. revelling in their artificiality.

I don't want to go too far down this path because they are, at the same time, characters that breathe, but when Patrick Bateman appears in Glamourama just for a minute it is as if BEE does it for the sake of doing it; because he can.

This is, after all, his fictional world; he is its creator and its master and by perpetual allusion to the length and span of this world he pushes us further and further into the fiction; down the rabbit hole as it were.

James

[39] On Jun-17-2005, James wrote:

reading that back I realise it's a little garbled but do you get what I am trying to say ?

[40] On Jun-18-2005, Andy wrote:

If you haven't read his other books yet, do so, it will enhance the reading experience of Lunar Park.

The book is outstanding and will have you hooked from the first pages.

[41] On Jun-19-2005, mitch wrote:

I understand where you are coming from. I give credit to Ellis for being different because he allows himself the freedom to write about whatever.

[42] On Jul-12-2005, wrote:

ellis has never let me down . if i still feel this way after lunar park, then i wouldn't worry if ellis wanted to write a sequal to Genesis - i'm sure he knows what he is doing and that it would be good.