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Stephen King Reviews Lunar Park

Stephen King writes about Lunar Park @ Entertainment Weekly after being told by a fellow patron of Borders that Ellis has mentioned LP was partly an homage to him.

Whether or not Bret Easton Ellis is "doing" Stephen King at the beginning of Lunar Park (little parenthetical expressions and all) doesn't matter, because by the end, all the masks, imitations, and pharmacological shopping lists have been set aside. Even in American Psycho, that boringly bloodthirsty book, it was clear to me that Ellis was a fine storyteller. It's this facet of his writing that has most appealed to readers and been most overlooked by critics. It seems at times to have appalled Ellis himself (one could almost believe it's the Terby hidden inside his laptop, flexing its claws). I got a clear sense of Lunar Park having started almost as a joke - perhaps a rather desperate one, part apology for American Psycho - and having finished as what is close to a credo. That is the true magic of novels, which often possess more strength (and reality) than their creators suppose: They see into our secret hearts.

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