Red Dead Redemption
June, 2010
Writing a sequel is a challenging act of honoring the past and reinventing it. It's time travel, and it's all the more daunting if the oriainal workbecame a critical darling, best-seller or Hollywood film. In Bret Easton Ellis's case, his 1985 novel, Less Than Zero, became all of the above, including a movie that now watches like a parody of 1980s debauchery. The novel, 25 years old and celebrating with a reissue, has aged far better and retains much of its appeal: a blithe nightmarishness an...
