Less Than Zero
By Bret Easton Ellis
- Release Date: 1998-06-30
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. • The basis for the cult-classic film "Possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." —The New York Times
They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college, he re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute 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 and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.
Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards!
Reviews
Movie was better
2By Jzsp8888Yawn. Just boringMy hometown LA
1By Little momma 1955The best thing about this book is it's familiar like an old hoodie. The characters are rich and entitled losers with too much time and drugs on their hands. I don't have a clue what the big deal about this novel is. Dark and disturbing, next best thing it did was put me to sleep. Certainly not worth the cost or effort to read.The book that got me into reading
5By razorbackslllllllllBret Easton Ellis is definitely one of my favorite authors, just with how courageous he is. This book does an excellent job showing the dark side of the fortunate youth in Los Angeles. The book does get very dark toward the end and made me think about the ending a for a couple days after I read it. It’s not for everyone but one that gets overlooked.Read it as a teenager and loved it. Read it again as an adult and loved it in a different way.
5By Dr.S, MDThis is just a great book. The characters are sometimes larger than life and ridiculous, but in a way that grabs your attention and keeps you wanting more. Mix that with the unsettling descriptions of the landscape and the ever building tension within the plot and you’ve got a book that I’ve thought about countless times even after multiple readings.I like dark. But yeesh.
3By auswizard79I enjoy the style that Ellis writes in. It’s fast paced and really fun to read. Until it’s not. I think it went a few degrees darker than I was expecting.Life changing
5By Megdirectioner4Favorite book, favorite author. Totally blew my mind. To read a book that is written like the way my mind works is amazingVery good for its time...
4By Justin Kelly PritchardI've been putting off reading this for years. I should have read it in my early 20s. Maybe it didn't catch me at this age like it would have then. It is still a great read full of effect. Especially with the heroin epidemic we have nowadays.This is good!!!!!!:)
5By Eye On My AppleThis is a good book. I even say the movies is so powerfulPretty lame
2By Jordan ElliottGlamorama was my first Ellis read, followed by AP. This was just plain bad. I mean I get he was young when he wrote this and a lot of it is his actual story, but c'mon. It would have gotten one star except I am a huge AP fan. I would not recommend this.Wow
4By Alejandro HerreraWild and Disturbing