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Bret Easton Ellis's new novel "The Shards" coming out
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Date: January 13th, 2023 10:20 AM Author: Glittery heaven 600+ page novel, main character named Bret Ellis, set in 1980s LA, where teenage Bret fucks around LA while a serial killer is on the loose.
Yuge fan of Less Than Zero, Rules of Attraction, AP, and Glamorama (my favorite), after which each of his books has been shit pure shit.
Return to form or cashing checks?
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Date: January 13th, 2023 10:21 AM Author: Marvelous Violet Marketing Idea Lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#45782943) |
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Date: January 13th, 2023 10:21 AM Author: Orange boyish dopamine hominid The Sharts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#45782947) |
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Date: November 17th, 2023 9:53 AM Author: ultramarine anal address (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#47066446) |
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Date: November 17th, 2023 9:54 AM Author: hairless center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#47066448) |
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Date: January 13th, 2023 10:27 AM Author: yapping twinkling uncleanness Are you looking for graphic descriptions of gay sex? It will probably have plenty of that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#45782984) |
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Date: January 13th, 2023 10:31 AM Author: Glittery heaven tbh, ellis hates fags more than most straights (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#45783009) |
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Date: March 13th, 2026 4:24 PM Author: provocative adulterous native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#49740524) |
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Date: November 16th, 2023 8:03 PM Author: tan tanning salon I’m about 200 pages in and so far the book is 98% gay sex. I never thought of Ellis as a limpwristed flaming queen before this but he is clearly impossibly homosexual. Didn’t he used to pretend to be bi? He’s def 8,000% gay. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#47064754) |
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Date: November 17th, 2023 9:53 AM Author: Glittery heaven Around the time I made this thread I picked it up in a Barnes and Noble and read like 100 pages.
Insufferable.
But tbf, while he's always been turbogay, he is of the last generation of honorable self-hating gays. He despises faggotry, despises gays in advertising, thinks AIDS is your own fault, and constantly mocks his faggot boyfriend for being super gay.
He's like a rock and roller about whom you just need to pretend he never released an album after 1996 or something.
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Date: November 17th, 2023 9:54 AM Author: tan tanning salon TBF it’s still his best book since Glamorama. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#47066449) |
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Date: March 13th, 2026 2:37 PM Author: Talented nighttime black woman 8000% gay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#49740190) |
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Date: January 13th, 2023 10:50 AM Author: umber histrionic pit background story 80s LA as in sunset rock scene? if so then would read. but if its another gay fan fiction about a bisexual loner creeping around bev hills, then no, not interested. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#45783129) |
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Date: November 17th, 2023 9:53 AM Author: Bull headed excitant market i liked the one he put out around 15 years ago about himself being a fag doing drugs at parties (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#47066447) |
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Date: November 17th, 2023 10:13 AM Author: lemon library More pedo fan fiction.he’s cashing checks based on past glories. I’ll pass. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#47066526) |
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Date: March 13th, 2026 2:35 PM Author: Chrome fragrant parlor psychic just finished. if you like BEE you will like this. its got all the intricate descriptions of violence and gays sex that any xo'er should appreciate.
what I liked best was the daily diary like descriptions of LA in the 80s. I'm a sucker for trashy "rich-kids lives" novels and addicted to all things 80s so this was in my wheelhouse. |
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Date: March 18th, 2026 10:29 AM Author: Glittery heaven i started this thread in 2023, remember hating what I read of this book... but three years later I still often think about one passage where he visits his old elementary school and feels very melancholic.
so i guess maybe its better than i thot. if a passage still resonates after 3 years that is more than most books manage |
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Date: March 18th, 2026 10:34 AM Author: Bull headed excitant market didn't he kinda do a book like this? i forget the name but i read it back in like 2008. it was about him, the author, and elements of his books seeped into his irl. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#49752986) |
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Date: March 18th, 2026 2:14 PM Author: Chrome fragrant parlor psychic probably imperial bedrooms. its a sequel to less than zero and talks about how the book/movie affected the characters lives twenty years later. "Clay" is essentially bee.
also had the gay for pay elements that shards has where hollywood fags abuse young actors. BEE is fairly tuned in to that stuff and ironically hates fags. |
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Date: March 18th, 2026 3:43 PM Author: Bull headed excitant market lunar park. i looked it up.
i remember liking that one |
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I type my handle—something like Patek Philippe Phantom or CooleyGod2008, it changes weekly—and hit submit on a thread titled “1L biglaw summer associate offer from V10 firm—should I take it or hold out for Cravath?” The post is three paragraphs of meticulously humblebrag: median at HLS, 178, K-JD, summer at Wachtell last year but “didn’t vibe with the culture,” casual mention of the Richard Mille I wore to the callback. I refresh before the page even finishes loading. Within ninety seconds there are seven replies.
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Date: March 18th, 2026 4:44 PM Author: Bull headed excitant market (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#49753991) |
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Date: March 18th, 2026 4:48 PM Author: Big-titted point masturbator I’ve read all of BEE’s novels and enjoyed The Shards. Before it was a novel, he released it chapter by chapter by reading it once a week on his podcast during the pandemic. This was the best way to experience it, you can find it out there too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#49754003) |
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Date: March 19th, 2026 11:41 AM Author: Chrome fragrant parlor psychic his narration is probably why I like the shards better than less than zero. his voice perfectly matches the dreamy, disconnected tone. kinda like watching a david lynch movie (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5270008&forum_id=2Reputation#49755177) |