Less Than Zero

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

Did the character at Less Than Zero rise above it all?
I though his biggest achievement of the novel was to at least be aware that they were all living shit lives, which was more than any of the others had.
I mean he didn't stay and watch a snuff, or whore himself for drugs, but at the end all he did was go back to college.
It's possible I have a different view because I read Rules Of Attraction first, where he makes an appearance*, and knew that the college he was going to wasn't any better than where he was, but I honestly can't remember much of, if any, kind of up for him or anyone in the book.


*Ellis novels are like superhero books due to the continuity/cross overs of characters perhaps?
Clay and Patrick Bateman in Rules Of Attraction, Sean in American Psycho, every character in Glamorama, and then a character crossing over into the 'real' world in Luna Park?
Roy Thomas would be proud.

[Leslie Lee III]

I didn't notice any achievements in the novel. I loved it, but the last thing I'd come away from the book with was a sense of growth or development. That's what I like about Ellis, it's not about getting from point A to point B but dwelling in the in-between.