Less Than Zero

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Summary: Drivel, pure drivel
Review: Why isn't there not a 0 star category ? A badly written "book". Maybe it might appeal to some spoiled rich kid who grew up in the 80's. By page 3, you want Ted Bundy to finish off these vapid morons with a knife. IF you like passion-free sex, idle drug use and apathy, go for it. If you want a well written and entertaining book, go elsewhere.

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Summary: Cigarettes & Hair
Review: How many times can a first person narrator tell you that he's lighting a cigarette? How many times can he describe the state of his hair? If you hate humor and love adolescent self-pity, this book's for you!

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Summary: Less Than Zero is a testimonial and a warning
Review: I was in 9th grade algebra in 1987 when I first read the back of this book off a classmate's desk, and upon finding out it belonged to a mutual friend, asserted myself as next on the list to borrow it. I read it in two nights. The characters and events were that compelling. The movie adaptation does little justice to the book, which serves as a superior testimonial and a strict warning that could still send shivers down the spines of impetuous teens today. In any case, it's an exciting story for readers of all ages, children excepted. Buy it as soon as you can.

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Summary: Best writing ever, ever, ever!
Review: To say that I became completely, totally obsessed with Bret Easton Ellis and his writing after I read "Less than Zero" in 1986 to to put it mildly. To this day I still make references to it, quote lines from it, and just generally insist to everyone that I meet that they MUST read it. It is brilliant. It is masterful. It is quite simply, perfect. I love many other authors, but Ellis has such a flowing prose style that it makes you want to read his words again and again, which is what I have done with "Les Than Zero" an inordinate number of times. When "Vanity Fair" published an article on Ellis a few years back, I just had to write a letter to them to express my devotion to Ellis. They printed it in their October '94 (I'm desperately trying to remember the correct date here) issue. When it comes to Bret Easton Ellis, I am the Queen Mother of his fan club. EVERYONE SHOULD READ HIM!!

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Summary: Legendary American Fiction!
Review: Amazing! Ellis is the Generation X's Poe, or Hawthorne, or Shakespeare....

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Summary: I couldn't put it down...
Review: I have been a huge Bret Easton Ellis fan ever since I read American Psycho. Less Thank Zero was the second Ellis book I read. I thought it was excellent. I really think that he took the time to develop the main character and make the reader understand what was going on inside his head. The book really delved into real LA life in the 80's. I am the same age as the kids portrayed in the novel and I found it so hard to believe that they could act that way because I know that I could never act that way myself. That is why it was especially shocking to me, because these kids lead such fast lives. I am not trying to make it seem like an admirable thing or anything, however, one needs to realize that it was reality. There really were kids like that back then and there are kids like that today. Rather than saying that the book is just about a bunch of disaffected kids, look at it for its biting realism. I also thought that the plot was developed perfectly. I really couldn't put the book down because I was so drawn to it and I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next.

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Summary: Original and poetic
Review: This book has received a bum rap due to being aassociated with the movie of the same name. The writing here is original and poetic, Mr. Ellis' best writing to date. Readers who enjoy lyrical, instrospective work will appreciate this book.

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Summary: sadly true
Review: This book reminded me so much of so many of my friends it scared me. Every teenager should read this, nothing has ever made sex, and drugs so mind-numbing, sad, and dull. It is dizzying yet completely dulling. It is scarey how this lifestyle turns these people into vacuums incapable of feelings. I cannot reccomend this book more. Engrossing, disgusting, terrifying, familiar, and honest. A truly great book.

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Summary: Call for suicide
Review: If there's ever been a book that made me want to kill myself, it was "Less than Zero"; and I mean that as a complement. In a dizzying trip through the world of L.A. in the 80's through the eyes of a young man, Ellis gives us the book of his lifetime. Though lacking a plot and any serious character development, this book is hard to put down. It's like one long drug-induced trip filled with meaningless conversations, sex, drugs, and the occasional violence. Brilliantly, though, Ellis let's the humanity of his main character come through in small passages scattered throughout the book that describe his recent past and especially a family trip to Palm Springs. The desparation of the book's characters and their futile search for happiness will leave you hopelessly depressed and pessimistic. If you haven't killed yourself by then, read Ellis's other, not so brilliant book, "American Psycho" which will make you want to kill somebody else for a change.

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Summary: Why isnt there an 11????
Review: YO! This is the BEST author I have ever read anything by. I am telling you. I read ALL his work in 3 weeks..and ALL in English though I am not even English....it is the most terrific, briliant, best, scary, cool, nice, etc....thing/books I have ever and ever will read!!! They cant be compared..I have seen the movie, got the soundtrack....all I can say is...read one you gotta read them all or else you are cheating your self for the coolest point an author ever made.....!!!! BELIEVE ME! Well, hope this inspired you...if not...you will die not knowing...what you wouldnt want that would ya? You dont know what you are missing...READ IT!!!!!! =) DEAL WITH IT!!!!!!!! MY DEEPEST RESPECT TO BRET EASTON ELLIS Kristine, 18 years, Denmark.