Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

30 reviews

idaanette's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Pedophilia, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicide attempt, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Cannibalism, Car accident, Child death, Death, Drug use, and Rape

seanamcphie's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, Addiction, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Blood, Rape, Violence, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Gore

_bxllxe_'s review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

What would you do if you were young, wealthy, and apathetic? What if sex and drugs weren’t enough anymore? What if the the only things left to entertain you were the worst things? What if you had nothing to lose? 

Bret Easton Ellis is fascinated with these questions, and he explores the answers in this chilling, dystopian LA landscape. 

“I want to go back,” Daniel says, quietly, with effort.
“Where?” I ask, unsure.
There’s a long pause  that kind of freaks me out and Daniel finishes his drink and fingers the sunglasses he’s still wearing and says, “I don’t know. Just back.”

“[…] she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like ‘I think we’ve all lost some sort of feeling.’”

“But you don’t need anything. You have everything,” I tell him.
Rip looks at me. “No. I don’t.”
“What?”
“No, I don’t.”
There’s a pause and then I ask, “Oh, shit, Rip, what don’t you have?”
“I don’t have anything to lose.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Drug abuse, Rape, and Addiction

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Death, Infidelity, and Violence

Minor: Abortion, Sexual content, Torture, Vomit, and Racial slurs

awgeezmckenna's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Pedophilia, Death, Drug use, Addiction, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Sexual content, Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Blood

miasoon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Violence, Addiction, Drug abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

delaviz's review against another edition

dark inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

A must read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Murder, Gore, Suicide, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Toxic friendship, Violence, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Racial slurs, Pregnancy, and Infidelity

katerina_l's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Car accident, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Biphobia, Blood, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

leetyeet's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Cried, sobbed, bawled. This book was entertaining and intriguing. Normally when I like a story this much I’m pacing and gasping but all I could do was sit and stare as the weeks passed in Los Angeles.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Addiction

Moderate: Alcohol, Rape, and Suicide

Minor: Abortion

stefo's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I'm not really sure how to rate this.
On one hand it felt really slow and not a lot of things really happened, the characters were incredibly unlikable and I didn't really care a lot for anybody.
On the other hand It was quite easy to read and I managed to read it in just 3 days without it feeling too tedious. The "disturbing" aspects didn't feel forced and generally I would say the end was somewhat satisfying. The structure was a little interesting, with the whole flashbacks thing and the repeating motifs.

Overall, neither impressed or disappointed, can absolutely see how someone would HATE this book but I'm just indifferent to it, The epitome of a 2.5 star book for me. It's meh. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, and Addiction

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual content

Minor: Cancer, Child death, and Abortion

ezraaa's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Rape, Pedophilia, Drug use, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual assault, Abortion, Addiction, Animal death, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Racism

Minor: Cancer, Death, Car accident, and Eating disorder