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Less Than Zero [Kindle Edition]

Bret Easton Ellis (Author)
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'It is all too relevant to teenagers today'
--Alastair Hutchinson in The Times

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Clay comes home to L.A. for Christmas vacation and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, 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. Morally barren, ethically bereft and tinged with implicit violence, Less Than Zero is a shocking coming-of-age novel about the casual nihilism that comes with youth and money. 'An extraordinarily accomplished first novel' New Yorker '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
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 308 KB
  • Print Length: 210 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0679781498
  • Publisher: Picador (10 Dec 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004FV4T7A
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #11,038 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful
The Dead Generation 8 Sep 2005
By rp
Format:Paperback
Where did Bret Easton-Ellis come from? I don't mean geographically. I mean how did someone in their early twenties write such a complete book? Less Than Zero is so accomplished it's incredible. It tells the story of the teenagers of the rich and famous, and their decent into decadence simply in search of something to do. These characters simply have nothing to risk. They are dead to the world and completely souless.
I think a lot of other authors wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to satirise the characters. Easton-Ellis looks beyond the shallowness of his characters and the result is a tragedy worthy of Evelyn Waugh, F. Scott Fitzgerald or Ernest Hemingway. Unfortunately, Less Than Zero is not as entertaining as Vile Bodies or The Great Gatsby. It's on a par with The Sun Also Rises though.
I think as the years go by, this book will be seen as more and more tragic, and an extremely good record of 1980s America at it's most empty and decadent. When it was first released some reviewers misread it as some kind of nihilistic call-to-arms for young party people. There's even an excerpt on the back of the book from one reviewer who compares the characters to The Beat Generation and generally approves of their wild party antics. I think now that the dust has settled it's easier to understand the meaning of this book. There's no soul in this party.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
The first book I have ever read by Ellis and I will be reading more as a result. I have just finished the book and it has become one of my all time favourites. Ellis writes about boredom and irrelevant conversation in a gripping manner. Hard to comprehend I know but the author summaries the 80's perfectly. Anyone in their mid-twenties onwards should be able to relate to this book and find it spot on and possibly even miss those times.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Bret Easton Ellis is the Irvine Welsh of America - or is Irvine Welsh the....well never mind. The book is unnerving, unsettling and disgusting but thats because it talks to your very soul, it disturbes you at a visceral level. You want this and you want this bad but your mind cannot countenance your desires.

BEE has written the ultimate teen-angst book that makes Salinger look like Enid Blyton. The cool words and hip prose are only a cover for the savagery beneath that explains the heart of every teenager.

Read it back to back with Trainspotting for a truly gut-wrenching, stomach churning exhilarating experience.
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First Bret Ellis
A bunch of crazies doing their thing, bizarre mid-life relationships and horrendous deaths.

Predictable, where the only thing keeping you on edge is the writer's ability... Read more
Published 29 days ago by PandemicGander
What makes this book so good?
Bret Easton Ellis documents the life of Clay, eighteen years old, back home in LA for the holidays from his New England college. Clay does little. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Book Critic
DONT BUY THIS WASTE OF PAPER/BANDWIDTH
Unbelievable, I can't believe I have wasted hours of my life reading this rubbish, I'm sure it's supposed to be a 'Social Commentary' or some such, but seriously, don't waste your... Read more
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Strange and attractive
I time-travelled to the '80s, to LA, at Christmas time. So dark, cynical and desperate, that eventually gets romantic. Read more
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i really enjoyed american psycho & decided i'd give this a go after the good reviews i'd read, i did finish the book (more in the hope that it would get better) but thought it was... Read more
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Published 10 months ago by J. Jenkins
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`Less Than Zero' follows the Christmas break of Clay, a young rich kid with far too much money and time on his hands. Read more
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...be highly confused as to what the fuss is about. I loved it.

This isn't a book with a message, as such (that I could see), it is simply an examination of the modern... Read more
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