My Lunar Park Question
I guess I'll kick this off since I finished the book this weekend.
If Ellis had not cast himself as the lead character in this novel, would this have generated as much buzz as it did? Or along those lines, why did Ellis have to be the main character for this novel to work?
If Ellis had not cast himself as the lead character in this novel, would this have generated as much buzz as it did? Or along those lines, why did Ellis have to be the main character for this novel to work?
posted by Crash at
8:18 AM
2 Comments:
Hmm. I think becasue it blurred that fine line between reality and fiction. I swear at the beginning I kept going "Ok did this really happen? Wait, wait - is THIS part real?" It made for an interesting "struggle" in my brain. I think that had the main character been truely fictional, that blurred reality would have been lacking, and for me, that was a great thing about the book.
I agree with JL,I think that having the author tell the story like it actually did happen to him was part of this books appeal. I think it would have lost alot had it just been some Joe Schmoe main character.
Aside; was this book not a freakin acid trip of a read or what?
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