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Bret Easton Ellis' Imperial Bedrooms
After the absolutely amazing Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis delivers a relatively short read with Imperial Bedrooms, the sequel to Less Than Zero. Let’s say it up front: if you’ve read all of his previous novels already, you have already read this one. It is almost entirely without surprise: perversion, murders, a nightmarish blend of the inner and outer worlds of the narrator and a desperate absence of feelings and empathy are all there. -
I certainly didn't expect it...
The Spanish Inquisition, I mean. Then again who does? -
Reductio ad absurdum
Reductionism is the idea that all known phenomena are the simple sum of simpler, more fundamental ones.