However, maybe that's just because I got confused and missed the point, as often happens. The Village Voice blurb on the back of my copy calls Less Than Zero "sexy and sassy," which has to be one of the most bizarre characterizations imaginable: to me, this is one of least sassy, least sexy books I can think of (might tie with Marilynne Robinson's Gilead for that prize?). I must say I find many reactions to it perplexing. Okay, so I really, really liked this a lot, though I totally get why a lot of people didn't. Oh yeah, I know: Bright Lights, Big City. This experience reminds me of something, but I'm not sure what. Its appeal is no less powerful for being difficult to pinpoint or explain. That’s basically what they did with American Psycho which I loved, but I want to spend time with these characters more.This book seems boring and shallow, and reading it gives me an anesthetized, hollow, detached feeling that I would not describe as entirely pleasant.Īnd yet I cannot seem to stop, and whenever I have to, I become very anxious to return to it as quickly as I can.
Movies tend take the greatest hits from the book and incorporate it into a screenplay.
It’ll most likely move in the way the book did so I’m anxious to see how they pull it off. Since it’s going to be streamed through Hulu. I love seeing how directors and screenwriters adapt novels into film or TV. I had been wanting to start this book for quite some time and finally decided to read it because there’s a Hulu mini series coming out this year according to IMDb. It’s not a very long novel (208 pages) and it’s easy to digest. It’s a dark satire and while it’s not a LOL every page, there are some moments in the book where I chuckled a bit. In the sense he has trouble feeling or expressing his feelings to himself or to the people around him. I wanted a little more, but I think the point of the novel is that the protagonist is cold. I give it 3/5 stars because there were some parts I felt didn’t need to be in the book to move the story and a bit of an anticlimactic ending, but smooth writing and some quippy dialogue.
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