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Estilhaços by Bret Easton Ellis

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tildasjo's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

magdalenag2727's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

ala2134's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

So engrossing and compelling. As I kept reading, I couldn’t stop telling friends that they had to pick this up. It had so many juicy plot elements: a serial killer mystery, clandestine gay romance, rich LA high school melodrama, the list goes on. I would love to know how true to fact this is, but I think that’s part of the mystery that makes it so intriguing. My only qualm is that it was incredibly long. If you took out the stereotypically LA paragraphs droning on about which highway they took whilst driving around, it could have been cut down by about 100 pages (seriously). Even so, I would highly recommend this.

tessareadsbookies's review against another edition

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5.0

Insanity.

mayaroels's review against another edition

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4.0

Een trage horror die leest als een trein. Helemaal anders dan american psycho maar zo beklijvend. Ook zo teeny. Seks, drugs, eliteschool en koelbloedige, mysterieuze moorden

parkersjoint's review against another edition

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dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

i gave up on this one 3/4’s of the way in, sometime last fall, heavily due to the slow pacing and large ‘fat’ that BEE had written in this novel. i love his writing, sincerely, but there’s like 200 or so pages that could’ve been sliced from this.

a lottttttt of this book is the protagonist mapping out every single thing he does when he’s home, or in the car, it gets repetitive. being high on drugs, alone, reflecting, listening to alternative 80s music etc etc

but i just kept coming back to it. i don’t know why, but i did. i’m glad i finished it. i really do like this story. i’m a bitch for the eerie, slightly off putting tone of something just feeling *wrong* ….. the characters in here aren’t lovable or memorable at all, but as i said, what BEE really nails here is the *atmosphere*

this novel is HEAVY on *atmosphere* & vibes. if that’s your thing, in addition with the backdrop of 1980s LA, bored rich kids, who are high on drugs, in the midst of the golden age of serial killers, lingering homoeroticism, you will have fun. [then again, that’s kinda all his novels lmao]

nicolealeseh's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

tequilatallulah's review against another edition

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2.0

God Ellis really is just obsessed with cum isn’t he

laubell's review against another edition

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tense

5.0

sophiebmelville's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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