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Title: More than Zero, Less Than Three
Review: This book gets one star for writing about "something different." BEE definitely "made it new"- which is more than we can say for some of these fossil novelists publishing tripe to rave reviews (Seek My Face, anyone?). He gets another star for being so young. Twenty is an age at which we can still be justifiably self-absorbed.Minus one star for over-the-top and unrealistic plot- which it WAS, no matter what kind of background BEE was attempting to portray. Minus another star for the overly stylized dialogue, which even Andrew McCarthy couldn't flesh out. Minus another star for the rip-off of a conclusion. At only 200 pages, BEE could've continued with Less Than Zero for mere days and come up with something half-plausible.It should count for something that the film cast included the ever-hot James Spader (Yow!), but not on this board.
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