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Title: A Waste of Time
Review: Bret Easton Ellis belongs to a mediocre breed that includes Dennis Cooper, AM Homes, and Jay McInerney who writes in order to shock, perhaps to hide his stylistic limitations. Less Than Zero, for example, is just two hundred pages of ramblings by a preppy druggie, interspersed with the usual snuff film encounters and gay sex. Fans of Ellis can counter by praising the "realistic" writing, but pick any homeless man on the street and he could write better. This book has no soul, and pity those people who compare the protagonist to Holden Caulfield. They might as well be spitting in Salinger's face.
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