Whining spoiled brat fiction; my parents failed to buy my
love, I took a lot of drugs, yet somehow my life is empty.
Tearing up yet? His clumsily-written, unoriginal but extreme
(particularly for those unexposed to splatterpunk
horror/suspense) AMERICAN PSYCHO was most of the reason for
his inclusion, I believe. Other novels include his first,
LESS THAN ZERO, which is also cf after a fashion. (I've
always taken the title of his serial killer novel as a
backhanded tribute to Robert Bloch, whose most
widely-distributed novels were probably PSYCHO and AMERICAN
GOTHIC, the latter the first Herman Mudgett novel I'm aware
of...recently we've seen a couple of high-profile Mudgett
books, one fiction, one nf--the murderous owner of "The
Castle" near the Chicago Exposition in 1898.)
-----Original Message----- From: Mario Taboada [mailto:
matrxtech@yahoo.com]
<<but does include some more recent folk I find pretty
marginal for cf, such as Bret Easton Ellis, or generally
minor, such as BE Ellis despite his popularity>>
OK, we can tell you really like Ellis... I've never picked up
any of his stuff. What does he write?
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