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[[Bret Easton Ellis|Bret Easton Ellis']] first novel. ''[[Less Than Zero (Literature)|Less Than Zero]]'' was written when Ellis was 19 and was published in 1985. It was [[In Name Only|loosely adapted]] into a film in 1987.
 
Clay, the protagonist, is a [[Bi the Way|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.
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=== [[Less Than Zero (Literature)|Less Than Zero]] provides examples of the following tropes: ===
 
* [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer]]: Julian's pimp and dealer.
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* [[Bi the Way]]: Clay.
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: While Clay does a lot of questionable and downright illegal stuff, he's nowhere near as bad as most of the people around him. To elaborate, the host of one of the many, many parties, buys a [[Snuff Film]] and screens it to all the partygoers while sporting an obvious erection. People stand around Clay's anorexic friend Muriel while she shoots up and take numerous pictures. A pair of drug dealers rape a little girl because they can't see any reason not to. Julian's pimp forces Clay to watch as Julian prostitutes himself to a client... It goes on and on.
* [[Chained to Aa Bed]]: Clay's dealer has a twelve year old girl tied to a bed. His dealer also drugs her and uses her as a sex slave...
* [[Character Overlap]]: Clay is also a minor character in ''[[The Rules of Attraction]]''.
* [[Crapsack World]]