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Title: An apt title 'cause it's a whole lotta nothing
Review: I bought this becauseThe Hollywood Assistants Handbook: 86 Rules for Aspiring Power Playerslisted it as required reading for anybody from outside the Thirty Mile Zone who wants to work in Hollywood so they'll understand where their future coworkers who grew up in the Thirty Mile Zone came from. The problem is there's no real story to it. It's just one long stream of college-age kids hanging out, watching TV, doing drugs, and having primarily gay sex in circa-1984 Los Angeles. Granted, it's a first novel written by a college kid, so I might be expecting a bit much from it, but it's just so bland to the point where the "Less Than Data" parody of it inTreks Not Taken: What If Stephen King, Anne Rice, Kurt Vonnegut and Other Literary Greats Had Written Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation?was more engaging. Forget the comparisons toThe Catcher in the Rye, this is more on a par withDay of the Locustbut without the social commentary.
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