James Van Der Beek Books

I loved James ever since the first episode of DC. The book was also really great.

I have to say that I loved this book. And that's not only because they gave my website a A+. There are tons of pictures. and the writing was really good too.

my god, my god, is he hot

A postcard and mini book of James Van Der Beek all in one. It contains 10 postcards with color pictures plus facts on postcard stock. The best part is that even when you use the postcards, you get to keep the mini book which has all the same great photos plus the facts about James. These are great!

This book was the best. Not only did they have good facts, but awesome pictures too. Definatly a keeper.

Whilst in San Francisco in 2005 was in a bookstore where Ellis read the first few pages of this book at a book signing. Now 3 years later after finally picking up a copy to take on holidays the great expectant read I anticipated never happened. The book just went on and on and never really went anywhere. Every page you turned waiting for the story to step to the next level,but it never does. Very disappointed.

Reviewed by Charles Shea LeMone www.allwordman.com

In his fifth novel, Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis has found the perfect anti-hero: himself. In an overview of his life he recounts selling his first novel while still attending college; receiving huge advances on future novels; his addiction to cocaine; numerous seedy sexual romps; abusing the limelight as a best-selling novelist (with more than one Hollywood film based on his books. Finally, he describes his eventual decline and fall from grace in the eyes of his once adoring public and publisher.

In an effort to clean up his act, Bret marries a former flame, a successful actress who gave birth to his illegitimate son, Robby, now 11 years old. At this point, the novel detours away from its self-effacing autobiographical tone and slips into the chilling province of horror, as Bret declares, "Every word is true."

Starting with a Halloween party held at his suburban home, Bret's new life begins to unravel as a series of supernatural events cause him to question his sanity. Following the first incident, when his step-daughter's mechanical doll takes on a life of its own, initially, Bret attributes the blood on the claws of the toy to delusions produced by the cocaine and the vodka he has once again begun to abuse.

But too many other sinister events convince him otherwise. He starts receiving mysterious e-mails from the bank where his father's ashes are deposited. His home begins to transform, taking on the physical appearance of the unhappy home he lived in as a child. Boys in the neighborhood, the same age as his son, disappear. A woman he has been trying to seduce is killed. And a wave of grisly murders -- which mirror the acts committed by a serial killer he created in a previous novel -- bring a perplexed detective to question him. Meanwhile, his marriage appears doomed and his son's alienation and distrust of him intensifies day-by-day.

This novel of angst and despair is as mesmerizing as a ten-car collision but is also frequently amusing. The climax and resolution of the story that Bret reaches, however, left me feeling unsatisfied. It was like being a guest at a sumptuous feast only to discover that the last dish served is half-baked. Still, I recommend this book to all Bret Ellis Easton fans and to all readers of fiction who enjoy delving into cleverly crafted tongue-in-cheek page turners.

For a book that starts out with a pseudo autobiography, for a book that features a self-indulgent main character, for a book that draws its themes from a series of obvious inspirations (including Shakespeare), I was pleasantly pulled along. Unlike some of Ellis' other stuff, it was clear to me that the construction of the book was well developed and tightly layered. The tension builds slowly. The book dabbles in straight detective stuff, then veers gently (how is that possible?) into horror turf. Yet when the blood comes, it seems even more real, even more damaging, even more of a catharsis. If you can't get past the self-centered main character, put the book down. If you feel yourself surprised to be with this guy for so long, keep reading because the end is worth the trip.

Ellis turns into a cheap wannabe-Steven-King. A bad bad spine chiller (we are talking monster birds attacking the narrator in a haunted house), that has no literary depth whatsoever. Gone the days when Ellis actually had to say something about the state of society. If you are a die-hard Ellis fan (And I used to be! I read every one of his books), then spare yourself this one. It will just disgust you.

So why the 5? The book is perfectly constructed, the characters are real, the choice of making the author the main character and his books important to the plot brilliant; the horror is spectacular. You are sucked into the vortex. But I hated this book. I was disgusted by the Ellis person, real or imagined, and his wife Jayne. They are failed persons: using drugs, prescription or felonious, alcohol, the works. But it's the utter narcissistic existence they live which is the real horror. The demon of Ellis' alter ego is apparently taking over the lives and home of this family. Jayne, the wife, is an actress concerned mainly with keeping family life on an even enough keel to be able to pursue her career and not be alone. While paid help are raising the kids. The little girl Sarah is on meds and so is the son Robby- so as to cause as little trouble to the parents as possible. To my thinking the demons were/are present from the beginning of Ellis life, and he's destined to have them as his only constant companions. The author chucks us a thin bare bone of hope and love (?) in the last few pages of the book. Thanks.
Like many, I wonder what author Ellis is doing today. Why has his book tour been cancelled? Then again, I don't want to know anything further about this character, this author, this person, this mind. I'll never read another of his books, I'm certain.

This book has everything you want to know about James Van Der Beek and dawsons creek. It has many cool picture of James and other co-workers with him too!