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smplatt
Boys Coming of Age III
Sep 8 2006, 7:31 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 8 2006, 7:31 PM EDT
Bret Easton Ellis, I both love and hate his bloody stuff, but "Less than Zero" is a great example of his toned down writing. It's about rich and disenchanted college kids home for the holidays in 1980's L.A. Mostly a dark novel about snorting cocaine, male prostitution, and a dead body, we see in it a sharp contrast between the glittering and the gutter, and somehow we find that they are pretty related in more ways than one. In every novel Ellis has to have his token disgusting scene that makes you want to vomit, so prepare yourself. But despite this, the novel is very rewarding in that it makes you think about evil in a different light, and makes you realize that innocence and youth do not necessarily go hand in hand. Overall it is a very moral tale. If you are into this kind of writing see his book "The Rules of Attraction". Do you find this valuable?    
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