funny scary brilliant - Rated 
lunar park begins in what appears to be an autobiography, which then changes to become a homage to the great Stephen King. At some points you are laughing out loud, others you are scared, its only halfway through when you realise that it is in fact fiction and not an autobiography!
I particuarly liked his evil furby type character. Shame about the ending as the rest is fantastic
YBRET - Rated
Excessive, poignant, hilarious and quite unsettling by turns; Lunar Park is a brilliant read. The novel begins as a self-confessional autobiography of Bret Easton Ellis written in such a way that it's difficult to know which details are fictional and which are real, with Easton Ellis constantly referencing real events and real people (often involved in very believable scenarios). The candidness of this part of the novel makes for extremely funny reading (particularly when Keanu Reeves comes into the story).
This setting later morphs into a fantastical horror story. The writer decides to make a go of family life but finds himself haunted by demons from his past - all rooted in his relationship to his now deceased father. The supernatural elements are quite disturbing but somehow mix surprisingly well with an emotional and very moving family drama. Easton Ellis's narrator, for all his faults, is a very likeable narrator.
Inside the warped mind of Ellis... - Rated 
Another great booked by Ellis, I was hooked yet again. It makes references to characters from American Psycho, so you should probably read that book first. Also, as with most of his books, it leaves you feeling like you could've done with just a tad more detail at the end... But overall amazing descriptions and captivating language - a definite read for this year.
I'll keep this brief - Rated 
I could go on and on about how poor this book is but I won't.
I have to say that I was amazed that this was actually written by the same author that wrote American Psycho. It is a complete mess once you get past the first few promising chapters.
The author sets off various threads that you just hope all come together but they don't.
For such a talented author, Lunar Park is a poor effort.
As for the Terby toy in the book, I could not take it seriously as I kept thinking or Orvil.
Lunar Park - Rated 
Lunar Park may be viewed in some quarters as a classic post-modern novel, in that the book transforms from what could be convincingly read as autobiography and then descends into an evidently ficticious horror story. However, a more accurate description might be that Ellis is playing in a comfort zone here, reinforcing his highly marketable cult of personality rather than creating new characters or scanarios. Considering the raw materials at his disposal, you'd think Ellis might have come up with something more inventive than this mish-mash of post-rehab meltdown and Halloween-night ghoulishness. You can't help feeling that with his creative powers spent on the extremes of American Psycho, the author has exposed himself as weaker on the subtler shifts in tension and character required here. Sometimes it is simply not frightening enough, or close enough to the bone, to lend credulity to the drug and alcahol addled psychosis Ellis seems at pains to convince us of.
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