A review by nroxiereads
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

2.0

I know Ellis makes a point to annoy us with his characters' aimless, repetitive, attempting-to-make-meaning-of-meaningless-signs crap, but I just got too tired of it to care that he had a point anymore. We have a main character (Clay) who seems to be slightly more ethical than his peers and family, but (unlike the terrible movie) he does nothing to stop the terrible things going on and says hardly a thing. Instead, he seems to want feeling so badly that he wants to "see the worst," trying to get something to affect him. Total nihilistic, disaffected generation, but it just didn't make me care to read it. The Breakfast Club did it better for me.