false 9915 24 The novel's protagonist, Clay, comes home to Los Angeles on break from his East Coast college. He re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where the natives drive Porsches, dine at Spago, and gobble their quaaludes from Pez dispensers. While home, Clay tries to renew his romance with his old girlfriend, Blair, and attempts to re-establish his close friendship with his best bud, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs, and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark. 1146200 1987 Less Than Zero total:6472|5:1124|4:2218|3:2103|2:776|1:250| 6472 22607 8070 504 4 17 false false Fri Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 17:58:29 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 13:02:02 -0700 2008
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 pow...more...]]> 2 7 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Jul 16 09:15:40 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 06:36:00 -0700 2008 Actually, my view of this book was kind of distorted by this man I used to work with at this coffee shop.
He was a huge fan if this author. And he was also a writer himself (published in Hustler!). He was in his 40's and still trying to break out. He had a s...more...]]> 2 4 false false Tue Jul 31 06:20:01 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 07:25:35 -0700 2007 Less Than Zero didn't bother to go into the character's inner-dialogue any more than it bothered to show a character that anyone might care about. Sure, the things they do (random sex, drug abuse, e...more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 22:59:08 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 23:08:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 17 08:48:55 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 09 18:24:27 -0700 2007 One question before we start, "Anthracite?"

Less than Zero is a meditation on the soul-less, physically obsessed world that was born in the 1980s. Yes, perhaps the pedulum has swung to and fro since the publication, but I find the relevance striking to today's pop-culture aesth...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 11:16:20 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 11:20:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 17:08:03 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 16:04:42 -0700 2008 Once. more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 04:26:49 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 07:43:23 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 14:36:03 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 14:54:10 -0700 2008
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Reread a year and a half later, it no longer has quite the same effect which either means I've beco...more...]]> 2 1 false true Tue Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 05 22:58:04 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 08 20:55:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Sat Jan 19 11:34:40 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 11:41:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 22 06:55:11 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 22 07:17:13 -0800 2007 Taking place in the early 80's in LA, Ellis employs a simplicity that lacks of depth and heavy description which p...more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Aug 21 00:31:56 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 00:33:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false true Thu Dec 04 22:23:01 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 22:44:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed Jul 04 22:30:32 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 00:40:43 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 true false Sat May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Fri Nov 16 07:05:47 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 16 07:13:00 -0800 2007
"Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation".

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Intellectually it is interesting. Using prose styling and thematic elements (and a haunting billboard) from The Great Gatsby makes an interesting comment on the young rich in Los Angeles during the 1980's. The apathy of these characters is...more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Jun 04 22:17:15 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 22:27:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 13:47:26 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 15:24:35 -0700 2009 more...]]>