A review by retros_x
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

challenging dark medium-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

4.0

What a bleak book. The protagonist is traumatized and depressed - without realizing it and observes passively the decay of a lost generation in the 1980s of LA. Only in the end when he experiences some TRULY HORRIFIC stuff we catch a glimps of moral integrity and reaction in his thoughts and actions, but it seems like a corpse that twitches one last time. 

The prose is dry but rythmic and some really effective paragraphs shake up the intentional monotony of the main body of text. I can't say I enjoyed all of it, but it had an impact.
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