by Bret Easton Ellis
It was a good idea to read this immediately after Less Than Zero. It helps make what works about the earlier novel come into focus, while at the same time letting you laugh about how this one is way too "cutesy". Yes, not a word that one would normally associate with such a nasty bit of writing, bu...
The Basics In this sequel to Less Than Zero, we catch up with Clay and his old friends, all of whom are now middle-aged and much the same as we left them. In this universe, Less Than Zero was a successful book and a movie that missed the point, much as it is in ours. Clay isn’t satisfied with the ...
I don't know what I was thinking, reading this book. I knew, knew that it was the sequel to Less than Zero and I read it anyway. Because clearly there is something wrong with my head.Twenty years later, the boring, drug-addled narcissist kids of Less than Zero have turned into boring, gin-soaked, na...
I probably should have read Less than Zero before Imperial Bedrooms. But standing in the aisle at the library, Imperial Bedrooms sounded more interesting and I had no clue it was a sequel. Excuse my language, but this book was fucked up in an intensely real way. I can't say anything else. Just read ...
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