Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24172 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-16
• Released on: 2006-06-12
• 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

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.

Inside the warped mind of Ellis...
Another great booked by Ellis, I was hooked yet again. It makes references to characters from American Psycho, so you should probably read that book first. Also, as with most of his books, it leaves you feeling like you could've done with just a tad more detail at the end... But overall amazing descriptions and captivating language - a definite read for this year.