Less Than Zero
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People are worried to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. And so starts the tale of Clay, an eighteen-year-ancient student returning home to LA for the Christmas trip. Troublingly, his holiday rapidly becomes a dizzying spiral of desperation, filled with relentless drinking in louche bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters in the rich suburban homes of affluent America. A fierce coming-of-age tale about the casual nihilism that comes with youth and money in a world where people are truly worried to merge, “Less Than Zero” is morally lonely, ethically bereft, and tinged with the regularly violent but permanently inexorable consequences of such depravity. ‘One of the most disturbing novels I’ve read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality’ – Michiko Kakutani, “New York Times”. ‘The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation’ – “USA Today”. ‘Remarkable. A killer – sexy, sassy, sad’ – “Village Voice”. ‘Never has Hollywood’s version of success looked so frightening in a piece of contemporary literature’ – “Newsday”. ‘Ellis captures the tiresome ‘kool’ and laid-back cadences of this group with deadening precision’ – “Vogue”. ‘An extraordinarily accomplished first novel’ – “New Yorker”.
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Read the book or see the movie. The tale is the same…a cautionary tale of young lives careening out of control. Their neglectful parents are the obvious ones to blame for the mess.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
What a piece of garbage. This is, lacking doubt, the worst book I have ever read. I would have agreed it zero stars, but Amazon.com didn’t have a zero star rating.
“Less Than Zero” chronicles the experiences of Clay, an 18 year ancient living life in the 80’s. Clay narrates the tale in a way that basically reads: I went to a party at ________, with (make up a few names) where I had alcohol/cigarettes/speed/coke and finished up going home with some boy/girl. Now imagine reading that last sentence again and again for 200 pages and you have basically read this book. It’s that repetitive and monotonous.
If you are expecting to read a novel that really has a tale, then look elsewhere. If, on the additional hand, you want to read a book with hundreds of indistinguishable characters, nearly every one of them described as blond haired and well tanned, then this book is for you.
Oh, and did I mention Ellis’ writing style? When he is not building up new cardboard characters or dropping pointless pop culture references, he is demonstrating his fondness for the word “and”. In one sentence he really manages to stuff that word in 24 times (pg. 110 of my copy). And the opening sentence of the book? “People Are worried to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.” You call that an opening sentence!? That’s the sentence that is supposed to draw the reader in! Grab their attention!!
Reasonably frankly, I am astonished that this book was ever published. This book is just unadorned terrible. Read at your own risk.
P.S. I am really 23. This review is titled “A kid’s review” because I couldn’t be bothered filling in the details for a proper review title.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Yeah, I liked this book the first time I read it…when I was fifteen and when it was called “American Psycho.” There’s nothing incorrect with having a certain style, Bret Easton Ellis (and tip an ear, Poppy Z Brite), but it ain’t kosher to simply rehash the same exact plotlines. Yes, Bret, we get it, there’s a seamy underground to the yuppie lifestyle. How shocking! Go for American Psycho as a replacement for, if you must read Ellis. At least if you get it in your head that it’s written as a social satire rather than just for shock value, it’s not too terrible, and infinitely better than LTZ.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
When one is young, club life looks exciting and treacherous. But when one gets beyond the surface of club life, its right empty scenery shows itself. No one has shown this more accurately than BEE in LTZ
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This book was forceful. I really loved it and could tell to it being a private school snob. Plus…my sister goes to the high school that they mentioned. Sweeeettt….
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5