Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16411 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-16
• Released on: 2006-06-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Independent on Sunday
‘Zipping along with that seemingly artless prose of his, it’s his most ambitious, least gory, most human novel to date’

Good Book Guide
‘Far and away Easton’s best novel since the incredible American Psycho’

Daily Telegraph
‘Full of bleak honesty and disarming wit… an ambitious, funny and never less than intriguing novel’

Customer Reviews

Egotistical drivel
After reading American Psycho and been very impressed I was recommended this by a friend. Biggest reading disappointment so far.

I just couldn't get to grips with the narrative, a strange mix of 3rd person 1st person which just didn't work for me. Seemed very self-indulgent and the paranormal angle made the whole thing totally unbelievable (that is unless your a Derrick Accora fan). Sorry Bret I just didn't buy the whole residual energies taking over a kids toy...

funny scary brilliant
lunar park begins in what appears to be an autobiography, which then changes to become a homage to the great Stephen King. At some points you are laughing out loud, others you are scared, its only halfway through when you realise that it is in fact fiction and not an autobiography!
I particuarly liked his evil furby type character. Shame about the ending as the rest is fantastic

YBRET
Excessive, poignant, hilarious and quite unsettling by turns; Lunar Park is a brilliant read. The novel begins as a self-confessional autobiography of Bret Easton Ellis written in such a way that it's difficult to know which details are fictional and which are real, with Easton Ellis constantly referencing real events and real people (often involved in very believable scenarios). The candidness of this part of the novel makes for extremely funny reading (particularly when Keanu Reeves comes into the story).
This setting later morphs into a fantastical horror story. The writer decides to make a go of family life but finds himself haunted by demons from his past - all rooted in his relationship to his now deceased father. The supernatural elements are quite disturbing but somehow mix surprisingly well with an emotional and very moving family drama. Easton Ellis's narrator, for all his faults, is a very likeable narrator.