=Book recently read: Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis=

(in 100 words or less)
The inventor and still the master at portraying the dazed, affectless, disconnected narrator, no one does Bret Easton Ellis like Bret Easton Ellis and many have tried. Ellis is the voice not only of a generation, but of an era's post-everything hangover and death-spiral malaise. This book reprises characters from his landmark 1987 “Less Than Zero” but that’s unimportant. What’s important in Ellis is the pop-nihilist irony, dial-it-to-eleven violence, and Warholian-zombie monotone. You can’t get away from that voice. You hear it everywhere, under everything. Like it or not, it's the unwelcome if unshakeable tune in our collective heads.