Less Than Zero

The first novel of Bret Easton Ellis I read, I absolutely loved it. Reading it was like taking a time machine back to my favorite decade the 80s. The book has almost a haunting or eerie feel to it from the crazy late night drug fueled parties, all the characters seeming ambivalence to all the awful crazy things going on around them, & seeing their friends in scary messed up situations which they never intervene in or help their friends. They just watch with a cool detachment. "Disappear Here" the term on the billboard Clay sees or thinks about throughout the novel would be a great descriptive term for this novel. A definite page Turner you won't want to put down, and it is one of my favorite books ever. Check out Brett's other novels The Informers, Rules of Attraction and it's sequel Glamorama you'll love them if you liked Less Than Zero.

Yes its sad and empty. That's the point. Bret Easton Ellis takes you deep into this world of rich kids with jacked up issues. But it's the way he expresses the characters through his writing that makes this book one of the best of all time. He defined a whole generation. First time I read this book I finished it in one sitting.

This book is really just a long drawn out summer for a 19 year old coming back home to LA between freshman and sophomore year of college in New Hampshire.