Zero ‘s themes of parental disillusionment, are constants among young writers aspiring to be the enfant terrible of ENG-107: American Solipsism and You. WHY I DIDN’T READ IT : I feel like I did read it roughly once a week in any and all of my undergrad creative writing classes. both in the film and as a performance art piece entitled “ The Subsequent 10-20 Years of My Career”. 1987 brought us a substantially modified film adaptation of the novel, refocused on the addictions and prostitution of Clay’s friend Julian, portrayed by Robert Downey, Jr. This misadventure of Clay and his fellow emotionally stunted yayoheads is today a calling card for disaffected youths who need something to read when the Wi-Fi on the BoltBus is broken. Watch Clay stare at his ceiling, debate whether or not to keep dating his high school girlfriend, and get to know his homicidal dealer’s sedated twelve-year old sex slave. rich kid home on winter break from Freshman year at a New England college. SYNOPSIS OF PRESUMED EXCELLENCE : Infamously penned when Ellis was just 19, Zero is the coke-and-cock-addled story of Clay, a L.A. THIS WEEK’S ADVENTURE : Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis (Simon and Shuster, 1985) Join him in our shared, faux-bookish plight: we are in this together, and he is dying for your sins. It is an inquiry into non-reading where reading should have been: a descent into the illiterate soul. This series aims to be confessional, cathartic, and as embarrassing as possible.

In other words: an almost entirely uninformed book review. In each volume of his bound-to-be-award-winning series “The Greatest Books I’ve Never Read”, avid procrastinator Nick Curley profiles a renowned tome of fiction that, for a variety of reasons, he has not gotten around to completing during his tenure on this earth.

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