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Pros

Into the weeds:brick (2005) meets under the silver lake (2018) by way of true detective season 1. Author conjures doubt in american psycho and glamorama. You're unsure, but then again you're more sure than unsure. The book does best is to explore the ...  Read More

Ellis’s realism never shies away from explicit scenes of * and gruesome moments of horror, but i admire his vision and honesty to give us his truth of the world unvarnished. This is my first ellis novel, although i was seriously obsessed with the less...  Read More

Thank you netgalley and knopf publishing group for the advance reading copy. People who dislike the book are likely to dislike it for this reason. This book is extremely graphic and definitely has a strong levels of * content so will not appeal to eve...  Read More

This is going to be a mystifying ride. The author is a great storyteller. It’s incredible, and moving, and a major accomplishment.

Robert mallory is a new student at buckley high school in los angeles. Bret, the new student, becomes obsessed with robert and his mysterious past. The book is a fusion of what's fiction and what was inspired by bret’s real life. Much of this book fee...  Read More



Cons

Less than zero is a combination of american psycho and less than zero. Lots of 80's pop culture name and brand dropping but little else with about as much originality as the book jacket design.

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Quality


Its a book about affluent teenagers in la in the early 80s certainly not an unexplored era but the quality of the storytelling ...  Read More


It is a unique gift from a gifted artist and i for one am grateful


Somehow ended up with the british release


The book starts out with the author actually alluding to this being part of his past and thus begins a fictional account of his...  Read More

Competitiveness


Come for the 80s details—the music the movies the clothes

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    novel, long, zero and new.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 1,728 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 20 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    About a quarter through the book though i wished i had been making a playlist of the many great songs he references throughout


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Enjoyable when really it doesnt seem like it should be


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Honestly it is difficult for me to believe that anyone writing a one or two star review of this book is doing so in good faith that they even read the book


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Anyone who read and enjoyed less than zero glamorama american psycho etc


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Anyone who hated those books will hate the shards


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    What i would consider minutiae in other books is not the case here and there wasnt a word i didnt want to read


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Was obviously so intriguing but i found that was really just the backdrop of teenage angst and the lovehate relationships that teens have with each other and life in general which just happened to play out amongst uber wealthy la kids who have too much freedom money and time on their hands


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    May have some triggers for graphic violence and animals

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