what was the point of this thing exactly? why is it so famous?i dont get it
>>24682220I have never heard of it, looks amerigolem, probably only famous there
>>24682220I saw the movie. Its weird, and it shocks you some. I think this came before the author did american psycho, another movie that plays with shock and disbelief.James Spader has made a hollywood career playing the well acted "weird" character half the time, and here he's in rare form. I've never read ellis but I gotta say I would likely start with american psycho and less than zero based on the movies were hard hitting so I imagine the famous (infamous?) books are even harder hitting.
and the point? Of the book or the movie, is basically this. For a couple decades hollywood glamorized cocaine and other drug use. They had already done it with booze. Every "powerful people meeting" has to have the rich people "oh so dramatically" throwing back whiskey. And beautiful rich women glamorize cocaine.>This, was turning that trope on its head. Instead of doing the usual drug tropes... cops vs drug dealers, or glamorizing the drug use. You get originality by simply flipping the trope over and there you have your fresh premise.>American Psycho is essentially the same. The serial killer trope? Ellis decided everyone is trying to catch the serial killer,the crazy men. Why not do a novel from the opposite end. he flipped the "serial killer trope" over, and bingo. Fresh premise right there.>Me, I took this as a lesson. I like to ID then flip a trope? Any time I can.
Spoiled rich kids with anhedonia feel nothing. Throw in a snuff film, a 12 year old girl getting gang raped and watching your drug dealer pimp out your allegedly straight friend to blow middle aged businessmen to pay off his drug debts.Robert Downey Jr was good as the addict turned fagwhoreSpader was good and sleazy as the dealer/pimp. Rest of the movie was forgettable doe.
>>24682220Latchkey Kid: The Novel. And Hollywood's dark side. Preamble to Rules of Attraction doing the same for what's now boilerplate 'college experience'. It's a horror novel, all of it is (except for Glamorama).
>>24682220its a coming of age tale about nepo babies in LA who are addicted to coke. i think its a pretty novel concept and its well written.
>>24682220>whythat was then this is now>kek
>>24683046>>24683058>>24683213>>24683267>>24683341so there is no real point?
>if I stroke the ego of my reader they will buy my books!Not really shitting on Bret for this, there is something to be said for such pragmatism.
I like how most of the replies itt are about the movie and don't mention the book at all. Never change you kikes.
>>24684658It's about modernity dipshit.
>>24684842what modernity nigger?its 200 pages worth of blonde, tan, unremarkable retards doing drugs and having gay sex
>>24684658Edgelord depravity but depressing somehow
>>24684658its about what the characters go through which are true to life
>>24685024true to life? what kind of fucking life do you live?you live like that? or know people who live like that?
>>24685030Tbf the bougie London art school kid club scene is basically this
>>24685491well i dont know what the fuck a bougie is and i've never been to london
>>24684658it's hard to imagine being too stupid for LTZ
>>24682220Is it so famous? It’s one of his duds and rated low.
>>24685664its hard to imagine being so stupid that you think you're some deep intellectual for pretending that a LITERALLY pointless book is a bmasterpiece13yo dumb bitch tier>>24685673probably his most famous bookyou could argue that american psycho deserves the first place but it's known for the movie, not for the novel itself unlike less than zeroin fact im pretty sure that, bar american psycho, all the other books he wrote are sequels of sort to less than zero
>>24686214i don't even like the book you dumb cunt, my iq is just higher than 85
>>24685673>rated lowYou're relying on the seas of midwits with internet access for your own personal affective reaction and intellectual interpretation?
it slotted in nicely with conservative narratives about decadent youths addicted to drugs and sex, except this was extra shocking because these were wealthy white kids. plus it's decently written for a 19-year-old's first novel.
>>24686214Retard.
>>24687577nigger
