THE INFORMERS (Bret Easton Ellis) - June 10/09

This collection of inter-connected short stories admittedly gets off to a fairly involving start, yet there reaches a point at which the whole thing just becomes aggressively repetitive. In Bret Easton Ellis' world, everybody is overprivileged, spoiled, addicted to drugs, and just flat-out aimless. It's initially a pretty intriguing peek behind the scenes of a world that I would certainly never see otherwise, but it inevitably becomes impossible to care as Ellis introduces the 10th, 11th, etc character that suffers from the aforementioned attributes. ** out of ****