Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis

Have finished reading Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis.  It was sort of OK until the last twenty pages when the descriptions of violence became obscene and I threw it away (very rare for me to throw books away - actually put them in the rubbish).  He is an exceptional writer with a sort of rococo-nihilist style that is very affecting.  But he ruins his books by trying to include plots which are so far-fetched they are derisory.  He is useless at narrative drive.  If ever there was a writer who needs to be told write about what you know it is Bret Easton Ellis.

He could write a really great book if he would remember he is a Jane Austen not a Raymond Chandler.