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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Novel Stories, 24 Feb 2001
By A Customer
An interesting point that has arisen in previous reviews is that some people treat "The Informers" as a novel and others as a series of stories. I know how they both feel.I first read it in paperback, where there is no indication whatever that this is not a novel. I tried to keep track of the different narrators and different characters until my brain hurt (this wasn't helped by the fact that all the male characters are 20 years old, blond with green eyes and adonis-like bodies - just how Ellis likes 'em, I guess - and all the women are middle-aged, wasted and strung out on tranquillisers.) I loved it anyway for what the blurb calls its "impressionistic blur" of narrative. That's another way of saying it makes your brain hurt if you try to keep track of them individually. Then I picked up a hardback copy in a second-hand bookshop and it made it quite clear that this was a collection of stories. I breathed a sigh of relief, but as someone who is never happier than when he feels there's something in a book he's not quite getting, "The Informers" felt slightly diminished as a result. Read it anyway. It's cool, mature, bleak, hilarious Ellis.
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by Bret Easton Ellis
by Bret Easton Ellis
by Bret Easton Ellis
by Bret Easton Ellis
by Bret Easton Ellis
