js reviewed The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
Review of 'The Shards' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Brideshead Revisited, but different. The inside of an ultra-spoiled brat, an adolescent putting on oversized britches while self-regulating anxiety and emotions by means of mountains of pills and other substances. The scene is known, a setting that immediately brings back not just Less than Zero but more importantly timewarps me back into the younger self reading it.
Which, I guess, would be the point of this autofiction. It holds up a mirror, but it’s a broken mirror giving a fragmented reflection. Not reality, but still revealing, truthful. Now I’ll reread that debut; the slight melancholy merits an extension.
