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* [[Crapsack World]]
* [[Crapsack World]]
* [[Developing Doomed Characters]]: The point of the book, really.
* [[Developing Doomed Characters]]: The point of the book, really.
* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: In an interview celebrating the launching of his most recent book, ''Imperial Bedrooms'', Bret Easton Ellis recounted how many fans of his work would come up to him and say "You're the guy who wrote ''Less Than Zero'', [[Completely Missing the Point|that's the book that made me want to live in L.A.]]!"
* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: In an interview celebrating the launching of the sequel, ''[[Imperial Bedrooms]]'', Bret Easton Ellis recounted how many fans of his work would come up to him and say "You're the guy who wrote ''Less Than Zero'', [[Completely Missing the Point|that's the book that made me want to live in L.A.]]!"
* [[The Eighties]]: [[Bret Easton Ellis]]' writing style generally incorporates a ''lot'' of pop culture, and this novel is no exception. Every paragraph just screams '''Eighties! Eighties! Eighties!!!''' from the parachute pants to the Ataris.
* [[The Eighties]]: [[Bret Easton Ellis]]' writing style generally incorporates a ''lot'' of pop culture, and this novel is no exception. Every paragraph just screams '''Eighties! Eighties! Eighties!!!''' from the parachute pants to the Ataris.
* [[It Got Worse]]: Boy howdy. The book starts off somewhat pessimistically already, with Clay estranged from all the people around him, especially his sorta-girlfriend and best friend. And it just keeps going downhill.
* [[It Got Worse]]: Boy howdy. The book starts off somewhat pessimistically already, with Clay estranged from all the people around him, especially his sorta-girlfriend and best friend. And it just keeps going downhill.
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Latest revision as of 20:22, 5 September 2021

Less Than Zero
Written by: Bret Easton Ellis
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First published: 1985
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Bret Easton Ellis' first novel. Less Than Zero was written when Ellis was 19 and was published in 1985. It was loosely adapted into a film in 1987.

Clay, the protagonist, is a bisexual college student back home in L.A. for the winter break. He comes from a pretty rich family and during the course of the novel, goes to a lot of parties, has a lot of one-night stands and does a lot of drugs. The story itself is a fairly frightening take on the amorality of the 1980s party scene.

A sequel, Imperial Bedrooms, was published in 2010. Less Than Zero was made into a film in 1987, and a television series in 2018.

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