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The Shards - Bret Easton Ellis BOOK REVIEW (Part 2 of 2)

BUY HERE (paid links): Audiobook: https://amzn.to/413b4jS Physical: https://amzn.to/3RmhDuY Bret Easton Ellis interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuRrdgXR4v8&t=54s Hollywood Reporter Article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/ex-hollywood-agent-son-arrested-murder-dismembered-torso-dumpster-1235644059/ Bronnie Ware Article: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/17/the-no-1-regret-of-the-dying-i-see-it-all-the-time-says-psychologist-what-he-does-to-stop-it-now.html SUPPORT / PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/booksarebetterthanfood THE SHARDS PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2pEYm35mYlL6WKAEYh7jcH?si=f5b3fbc280aa44ab INSTAGRAM: @booksarebetterthanfood https://www.instagram.com/booksarebetterthanfood MUG: https://www.zazzle.com/better_than_food_coffee_mug-168249045611119837 ----------------------- PATREON INFO: For $5+ per video Patrons you'll receive (in addition to all below): Entered in the Book & Coffee Jar For $1+ per video Patrons you'll get access to: Patron-Only Reviews All Reviews Ad-Free Discord Channel Better Than Friday Newsletter (5 things I'm interested in sent to you every Friday) ------------------------------- PATRON ONLY REVIEWS: Death in Venice - Thomas Mann https://www.patreon.com/posts/death-in-venice-88575877 The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus https://www.patreon.com/posts/myth-of-sisyphus-80534135 H.P. Lovecraft - The Call of Cthulhu (Halloween Special) https://www.patreon.com/posts/call-of-cthulhu-74055549 Hamlet: Poem Unlimited by Harold Bloom https://www.patreon.com/posts/66203438 10 Books to Be Read 2022: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63010254 Train Dreams by Denis Johnson https://www.patreon.com/posts/60574022 The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop - Halloween 2021 https://www.patreon.com/posts/58073911 Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima https://www.patreon.com/posts/55759685 Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard https://www.patreon.com/posts/53139833 The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki https://www.patreon.com/posts/51134117 Platforms by Nina Power https://www.patreon.com/posts/48914140 Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk https://www.patreon.com/posts/45465524 Bookshelf Tour 2020: Part 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41287302 Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42817306 Part 3: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43783138 The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat https://www.patreon.com/posts/38823138 Margery Kempe by Robert Glück https://www.patreon.com/posts/38645694 Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov https://www.patreon.com/posts/37527267 The Lover by Marguerite Duras https://www.patreon.com/posts/35574016 11 Books to be read in 2020: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33921584 Atomic Habits by James Clear https://www.patreon.com/posts/32697977 Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal https://www.patreon.com/posts/30969884 The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene https://www.patreon.com/posts/29515320 Reading is Expensive (A Rant) https://www.patreon.com/posts/29065141 White by Bret Easton Ellis https://www.patreon.com/posts/26771749 A Room on the Garden Side by Ernest Hemingway https://www.patreon.com/posts/21573550 The Return by Roberto Bolaño https://www.patreon.com/posts/21019229 Darkness Visible by William Styron https://www.patreon.com/posts/20276630 "Blindness", an essay by Jorge Luis Borges https://www.patreon.com/posts/19529985 The Alligators by John Updike https://www.patreon.com/posts/18428537 The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain https://www.patreon.com/posts/17281418 Animal Crackers in My Soup by Charles Bukowski https://www.patreon.com/posts/16924023 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez https://www.patreon.com/posts/16133547

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Kody

Two of your best reviews thus far! Always enjoy your analysis, keep up the great work, Cliff!

Brock Eldon

Cliff, these were really outstanding reviews. I think the split between more general and detail oriented readings, split between Youtube (public) and Patreon (private) is actually a really smart business decision. You did not disappoint me . . . While - sure - it's a lot of the same ideas, they're explored from a different angle and in more depth. I think this is one of your best as well. It's the best review of the book I've seen. I would love if Brett had you on his podcast. Really . . .

Rob Burkel

Great review, Cliff. A review not unlike great fiction…stated to make you think!

G J Sykes

Great review Cliff, sterling stuff as always. I received The Shards as a christmas present this year and it was my final (and 100th) read of the year. What a book to finish 2023 on! A welcome return for Bret Easton Ellis and very much, imho, head and shoulders above most of the dross that passes for contemporary fiction nowadays. Great stuff and once again to you Mr Sargent carry on the good work sir!