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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679781493
ISBN: 0679781498
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: June 30, 1998
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: June 30, 1998
Sales Rank: 8296
Studio: Vintage
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Product Description:
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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Rating:  -
This book is one of the least eventful and interesting books I've ever read. There was a point about three-fourths way through the book where I lost interest and wanted to throw this book away but I trudged on to finish the book and I wish I would've put the book down and walked away. This book features no decent plot and I don't see the big deal about this book. I'm not illiterate, mentally disturbed, easily bored or hard to please but this book sucked something awful. This guy is from LA, goes ... Read More
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"Less Than Zero" is a semi-autobiographical novel of youthful disaffection and depravity among wealthy Los Angelinos, written when author Bret Easton Ellis was 19 years old. Clay is a college freshman who has returned to his native L.A. for Christmas break after his first semester in New Hampshire. He has vague plans to see his old friends and a half-hearted intention of rekindling a relationship with his high school girlfriend Blaire. Clay recounts, in a droning first person narration, the month ... Read More
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On the back of my book, USA Today quips, "Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation." I couldn't agree with that statement more (although I really didn't care for Catcher). Less Than Zero's Clay has the cynicism and adolescent boredom of Holden Caulfield, only on a more depraved level. He surrounds himself with degenerates who lead decadent, shallow lives full of drugs, booze, sex, and money. When one character is asked, "...What don't you have," he replies, "I don't have anything to lose." That ... Read More
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Um, this is pretty much like every other Bret Easton Ellis book, except it was the first, so I guess they are all like this one. It's about a bunch of rich kids who became jaded about life too early on. They do a bunch of drugs. Have a bunch of sex and commit crimes that don't really disturb them, including raping a 12-year-old girl. It's pretty good up until the end, where the 12-year-old girl came in. That was a bit too much for me.
The thing I found interesting about this book is that ... Read More
Rating:  -
Ellis is an expert at chronicling the callow consumerism and nihilism of a particular breed of American wealth. He hits it here. These characters aren't at all overblown. They are incredibly shallow. They are exactly as shallow as they would be if they were actually alive. If you don't know people who are exactly like this then you've never known anyone from Sherman Oaks or Beverly Hills.
And then, as he always does, once he's created these completely plausible characters, Ellis starts dragging ... Read More
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