Talk:Glamorama

Is Sean Bateman 'significant'?

"The novel keeps up Ellis's tradition of using pre-existing characters from previous novels. For example, a significant character is Sean Bateman, who was the primary character in The Rules Of Attraction and was Patrick Bateman's brother in American Psycho (Patrick himself makes a brief cameo in Glamorama)."
What exactly is it that makes Sean Bateman a 'significant' character? I may be wrong, but I only recall him being mentioned briefly in part one during a conversation between Victor and Lauren, and then again in a Camden flashback in part six. If someone can't explain why he is so 'significant' then I'll re-write the section. I'll leave my bit about Bertrand and add a somewhat more authoritative list of all characters who have made a return in Glamorama.

Matthew king 22:49, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

I have re-written the paragrah. I hope I didn't miss anyone out. ;)

Matthew king 10:01, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

NPOV

The original headline of "plot stolen/recycled" didn't exactly seem neutral or encyclopedic, so I went ahead and cleaned up a little. - Ambientlight 23:55, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Zoolander

In the Zoolander article it says Ellis did take legal action and settled out of court, and can't talk about it due to the terms in the settlement. In this article it says he was joking about taking legal action. What gives?

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Chapter numbering

Should the unusual numbering system of the chapters be mentioned?) (I don't have the novel here, but I remember that in at least one part of the book they are counting down instead of up, for example.) -- megA (talk) 14:56, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Each "act" has its own chapter numbering and they count down to the end of the act. It's not that unusual, really, but if it's come up in critical evaluation of the novel then I suppose that could be mentioned. GRAPPLE X 14:59, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

I think I remember there was some inconsistency in the numbering, but I'd have to look it up when I have the book at hand again... Is it really not that unusual to count the chapters down? -- megA (talk) 15:47, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Article lacks a lot of info

This is a rather strange article. In an article about a book, I hope to see a little bit of background about the author and the writing; a brief plot summary and list of characters; maybe a little bit of supported analysis of the themes; and a bit of the reception history. This article seems to be a long and loosely organized string of quotes from reviews, some of them no-name newspapers (the Lakeland Ledger?) or college papers. There isn't really even a plot summary. 71.198.222.71 (talk) 16:19, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

I've written a plot summary which should give the reader something to refer back to when looking at the section on themes & analysis. I'm aware the summary is a bit long, but it's hard to condense the "thriller" plot into a few paragraphs while maintaining some sense of vibe. Open to suggestions on how to improve this!! Rental87 (talk) 22:21, 19 June 2025 (UTC)