Bret Easton Ellis
Paperback | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.58 | 63425 Users | 3244 Reviews
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| Title | : | Less Than Zero (Less Than Zero #1) |
| Author | : | Bret Easton Ellis |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | June 9th 2010 by Vintage Books (first published May 1985) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Novels |
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Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money a place devoid of feeling or hope.Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.
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| Original Title: | Less Than Zero |
| ISBN: | 0679781498 (ISBN13: 9780679781493) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Less Than Zero #1 |
| Characters: | Clay (Less Than Zero), Blair (Less Than Zero), Kim (Less Than Zero), Alana (Less Than Zero), Julian (Less Than Zero), Trent (Less Than Zero), Rip (Less Than Zero), Griffin (Less Than Zero), Finn (Less Than Zero), Daniel (Less Than Zero) |
| Setting: | Los Angeles, California(United States) California(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.58 From 63425 Users | 3244 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books Less Than Zero (Less Than Zero #1)
Less Than Zero is an affecting ridealong in a car full of coke-addled rich kids. The ending is properly shocking. I was, as was intended, thoroughly disgusted, as I'm sure you will be too. I didn't like a single character. The book has all the appeal of a trainwreck that causes a chemical spill at your local kindergarten. You don't read this book for fun. You read it to justify your hatred of humanity and all things wealthy. Christian Rummel does a fantastic job with the audiobook. In summation:Unloved rich kids in 80s L.A. desperately try to feel something. It's depressing and disheartening, but worth it if you can stomach the apathy and hedonism. It's pretty awful at times (the events of the book).
Another empty novel about emptiness, oh joy! I read this because friends were always like, Youve never read Bret Easton Ellis? Whaaaaat? But now I have and we never have to talk about it again. Yay.
The defense I see most often of Ellis is: "You just don't get the joke." And could there be a more annoying defense? How can you even respond to that? It's meaningless.And it's not a joke. It's satire; that's totally different.I spent tonight arguing about Ellis with some very smart contrarians, and here's what they said: Ellis has captured the soulless Me First Generation, and their failure to connect with life, in a really effective way. He refuses his rival David Foster Wallace's edict that
This book seems boring and shallow, and reading it gives me an anesthetized, hollow, detached feeling that I would not describe as entirely pleasant.And yet I cannot seem to stop, and whenever I have to, I become very anxious to return to it as quickly as I can. Its appeal is no less powerful for being difficult to pinpoint or explain.This experience reminds me of something, but I'm not sure what.... Oh yeah, I know: Bright Lights, Big City. Way better, though, so far. I love all the characters'
This book probably deserved more than three stars. But I just can't give it any more than that. I HATE this book. I hate it with my whole soul. It's so true and I am massively depressed after reading it. It perfectly illustrates the life of a completely useless waste of a human being and all his useless friends and their useless lives. It's awful. They should all be put out of their (and our) misery. The best thing I can say is that this book serves as a glorious example of how not to be. The
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