7. Glamorama (1998)
A book about models, show business and terrorists, the novel is narrated by Victor Ward, a vapid model and current 'It Boy' who leads a glamorous life going to all the right parties, dating a beautiful female model and having an affair with another female model. He thinks he leads a charmed life but the Gods are going to deal him a bad hand, involving him in some pretty dodgy capers with international terrorism Another unlikeable narrator from the pen of Ellis (a lot like Clay in Imperial Bedrooms), Victor is a foil for Ellis to explore and comment upon celebrity culture and thus slate it, because we do not have any characters in the book to like. Everyone is shallow, plastic and vain. Ellis constantly name drops celebrities until the book is just saturated with them. This is an apparent attempt to satirise the celebrity world. I am not particularly a fan of Glamorama. I couldn't connect with Victor as a narrator - at least Patrick Bateman has an aura about him and a good story to tell. Victor is as exciting as a lump of mutton. Plus the book is rather long for a scant plot about models becoming terrorists. I can't tell you any thing more about the book because I put it back on my bookshelf about half way through. And I have never done that before with a Bret Easton Ellis book. That's how much I disliked Glamorama.