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so-so8-26-22: My 84th finished book of 2022! I don‘t know what to say about this book. Manhattan (and London and Paris) in the 90s. Victor Ward, a supermodel who name drops constantly, lives a glorified life of excess until he gets recruited to go abroad and find an old friend. Violent and sexual and confusing. ⭐️⭐️📖#️⃣8️⃣4️⃣
so-soThe humor did not ring for me, so I can start there. I think the difference between this and “American Psycho,” for example, is the ideas being expressed are not as present and powerful as they are in AP. Whereas here it‘s a lot of “contemporary life is superficial and celeb obsessed,” AP delves into masculinity, misogyny, hyper consumerism and much more... But: cut one or two hundred pages out and I think this novel would be far more compelling.
#90sSpringFling @BarbaraBB @Cinfhen
Loving all the 90s photos and now I'm regretting not planning ahead and phoning my parents for some. I'll have to settle for some living history: two of the oldest shirts in my wardrobe. How old are they? In continuous operation since high school? Could be...no one really knows. But flannels and baggy wide-leg jeans (about as wide as I was tall) were definitely my thing!
I'm in agreement with others BEE fits the bill for today's #rockinmay #cocaine. Lunar Park might be the only exception. This one is set in the 90s New York night club scene and is definitely along similar *lines* (sorry, had to) as his other work in terms of themes, but also goes down a very bizarre path. Paranoia doesn't even begin to describe... @Cinfhen
