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The name dropping will leave you breathless!! the best niche ref is fern mallis. has anyone else read this?? bc I need to know what you think about the mountain of Snapple and mentos consumed and what it felt like for you to be in zoolanderās vacant head for 500 pages and what you think the ice and confetti were all about
Jan 28, 2024
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Arguably Brett Easton Ellisā magnum opus. I love that he sued Zoolander for stealing his IP and won. Itās a story about a male fashion model who becomes a terrorist. As in other Easton Ellis books, there is a mantra: āThe better you look the more you see.ā This is deeply true. Beautiful people are punished by being exposed to all the most horrifying things in the world. Epsteinā¦need I say more?
Jun 14, 2022
Jan 16, 2024
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"Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the somber renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings. I mean long journeys across gray space. I mean danger, the edge of every void, the circumstance of one man imparting an erotic terror to the dreams of the republic. Understand the man who must inhabit these extreme regions, monstrous and vulval, damp with memories of violation. Even if half-mad he is absorbed into the public's total madness; even if fully rational, a beaurocrat in hell, a secret genius of survival, he is sure to be destroyed by the public's contempt for survivors. Fame, this special kind, feeds itself on outrage, on what the counselors of lesser men would consider bad publicity - hysteria in limousines, knife fights in the audience, bizarre litigation, treachery, pandemonium and drugs. Perhaps the only natural law attaching to true fame is that the famous man is compelled, eventually, to commit suicide.
(Is it clear I was a hero of rock 'n' roll?)"
the rest of the book sucks
Nov 6, 2023
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This is what the internet felt like when selling out was still a thing to be avoided at all costs
Feb 7, 2024
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mansfield park for the Nabokov heads (the real ones will read his lecture on this novel!!)
Northanger abbey for anyone who finds pookieās marriage appealing
Emma for the girls who wore a Blair Waldorf headband unironically at some point in their lives
Persuasion for anyone born before 1985
Pride & prejudice for those who hold grudges
Sense & sensibility for people who are experts at pining for unavailables
Jan 30, 2024
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Technically itās a screwball but itās still got a marriage plot and nothing, absolutely nothing beats Kate delivering āI feeeeeeel fineā while wasted on champagne
Jan 30, 2024