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Though I bought it a few weeks back, I'm just now starting up on The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis, about a group of nihilistic teens who get caught up in the sinister machinations of a brutal serial killer who's menacing the streets of '80s LA. That's a very broad and basic summary that probably doesn't do justice to the full scope of the story, but it's a serviceable one all the same. Thus far it's your basic Ellis fare, i.e., a group of physically perfect, bisexually promiscuous teenagers who lead the sort of carefree and materially rich but emotionally soulless lives that many of us probably half-wish we could have lived when we were teenagers lol. But that's not a slight against it. I'm enjoying it immensely with its almost obscene litany of '80s pop culture references.