Imperial Bedrooms Audiobook

" The Rat Pack from Less Than Zero is back in a dark continuation of debauchery in L.A. Clay returns to entangle himself in a conspiracy after he falls for an aspiring actress, Rain. And that's pretty much the whole plot. Clay runs into old companions along the way including Blair and Julian and imbibes plenty of alcohol to fuel his affair with Rain. What drives this book is the pervading sense of paranoia that Clay experiences. It creates a tangible tension as Clay's anxiety grows. While the mood is effective, I didn't find the story itself very engaging. Clay and his friends are far from sympathetic and his depravity is nothing new. The motives and consequences of his involvement in the shady scheme aren't ever fully revealed which made the conclusion a disappointment. Imperial Bedrooms lacked the originality of Bret's other books and felt rehashed. If you are a die-hard Bret fan by all means, you will like this book, but people like me who didn't get much out of Less Than Zero shouldn't waste their time on this. I received a complimentary copy of this book via the Amazon Vine Program. "

" clumsy, unfocused. dissolves into last-attempt ultraviolence, without effect. "

" Not his finest work. Entertaining but lacks something. "

" Not my favorite book by Ellis (I've read all but American Psycho). The best thing about it was that it only took me 2 days to read. I like his prose style, I just didn't care for the plot at all. Lunar Park was very similar but far superior. "

" This haunted me, and not in a good way. Ellis' writing always leaves me feeling like I have bugs crawling on my skin. The story is nothing like it's predecessor. The only thing that remained the same was that the characters apparently have no souls. They stay completely unaffected by all of the horror that they cause. "

" Sociopath American Psycho with a bit of self-reflective Lunar Park with a bit of LA satire Less Than Zero and the glam of Glamorama. Ellis has written a pastiche of his own work in order to remind us that he can write violence and violent sex well, not to mention characters so isolated from themselves and each other that they disappear here. What intrigues me about this is that he resurrects his first narrator to no effect. And it doesn't resurrect Ellis--just allows him to engage once again with 80s music allusions. Or maybe he's just being ironic--what would anyone expect of these characters but less than zero? A sequel that delivers exactly what these characters have become--versions of themselves. "

" I so rarely give up permanently on a novel, but I did this one. I read Less Than Zero when I was fourteen and loved it, but I have grown since then and expect the author to have done so. Alas, it didn't seem that way to me. I was bored. "

" A sequel to Less Than Zero that feels a little forced at times but was still engrossing and a nice revisiting of the Beverly Hills kids. "

" Didn't enjoy this at all. Why would anyone give a shit about these hideous people. Not me so much! "

" What started out as a fun look into the lives of the characters from Less Than Zero 25 years later devolved into American Psycho level of sadism, sexual perversion,torture and ultimately complete nihilism. "

" A book about emptiness, written with no soul, with no meaning. Waste of time. "

" Like all of Ellis' books, I couldn't stop reading it. It was repetitious, depressing, and ultimately sickening, but there is something about Ellis' writing that draws you in to a world you hope doesn't really exist. It seems real and he forces you to watch. "

" Sadly, I loved it! "

" Awful and silly. But short, so it has one characteristic worth praising. "

" brutal book, but classic Ellis.... characters do a total 360 from 'Less Than Zero.' "

" I guess like Philip Roth, Ellis keeps writing the same novel over and over. This is Less Than Zero crossed with American Psycho and Glamorama. I hope the aftertaste won't linger too long. "

" Contains maybe 10 pages of good writing at the beginning and end but otherwise contains porn-level dialogue and beyond-tedious plotting. "

" Decent story in this sequel to Less Than Zero, but characters aren't well-written. A pretty lazy effort by Ellis. "

" gf got the audiobook so i listened to it a few weeks after i read it, Andrew McCarthy doing it was pretty great "

" Loved it. Knew I would:) "

" Didn't do it for me "

" This novella is like watching a nasty dark art house movie. An ugly story packaged well by the oh! so cool Mr. Ellis' not sure iif m being isardonic . This is not a novel but a short story dragged out to make an average novella. "

" I thought American Psycho, while at times cringe-worthy in its explcitness, was rather brilliant. This just lacked something. I still finished it, because it was a trainwreck. "

" Short novel of Hollywood life, becoming cold and disturbing by the end. Mixes in a little mystery story line. Listened on audio narrated by Andrew McCarthy - he really added to the story. "

" Decent story in this sequel to Less Than Zero, but characters aren't well-written. A pretty lazy effort by Ellis. "

" What can I say, I love Bret Easton Ellis. His nihilistic lyric thrills me every time. This book doesn't disappoint but it's not Less Than Zero. "

" Possibly one of the worst books I've ever read in my life. Unbelievably bad. "

" This is quite decent, I thought. Ellis fans - like myself - should find it worth a read, but the ending let me down a bit. I thought the final words seemed a bit obvious, like explaining why your joke is funny. "

" Not bad, quite a short book and I realise I should have probably read the first book about these characters first but didn't realise at the time, a bit gruesome in parts. "

" What started out as a fun look into the lives of the characters from Less Than Zero 25 years later devolved into American Psycho level of sadism, sexual perversion,torture and ultimately complete nihilism. "

" Good to see the band back together again. "

" Disappointing sequel to Less than Zero. Goes down some dark places. Almost like Ellis thought this was a sequel to American Psycho instead. "