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The soundtrack to the definitive selfabsorbed 80s film less than zero is as uneven as most variousartists soundtracks, bouncing between insipid metal covers aerosmiths rockin pneumonia and the boogie woogie blues, poisons rock and roll all night, slayers inagaddadavida, competent hard rock, and a handful of interesting cuts that make the album worthwhile. After already reading american psycho, less than zero is just, meh. This coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost. Planet money the price of a barrel of west texas intermediate crude oil fell below zero. Clay is 18, home for christmas break from college in new hampshire. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Throughout the novel the protagonist moves from one club to another, one penthouse to another, one party to another all the time gathering a terrible momentum which takes him to worse places, worse situations, worse people. That inescapable fact is at the bottom of less than zero, a movie that knows cocaine inside out and paints a portrait of drug addiction that is all the more harrowing because it takes place in the beverly hills fast lane, in a world of wealth, sex, glamor and helpless. Bret easton ellis is the author of several novels, including imperial bedrooms, less than zero, the rules of attraction, american psycho, glamorama and lunar park, and a collection of stories, the informers. Definitions of less than zero novel, synonyms, antonyms, derivatives of less than zero novel, analogical dictionary of less than zero novel english.
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