what else you got

[lauralh]

screaming orgasm + delivered burgers== happy

I re-read Less Than Zero, which everyone should do once every five years. I mean, I love the book, with a kind of heartful wistfulness and melancholy sublime sigh, but I don't know why. From the first couple of pages I'm drawn in and can't break away. His other books make me yawn halfway through. I guess because this narrator has a soul, however deeply buried. The prose is stark and practically style-less, kinda like James Frey, but it's actually describing stuff that's supposed to be glamorous (L.A. in the 80s). It does the same thing here as it does there, and you feel sorry for these kids who started sex and drugs so young that they keep going just to try to feel.

Comments

[candid.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised you didn't like American Psycho. I couldn't put that one down once I started.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

What, the list of bath products didn't bore the living shit out of you?

[candid.livejournal.com]

Some of us like bath products.

Personal experience confirms it's all true

[hoolifan.livejournal.com]

Besides the fact that I love the book, I need to re-read Less Than Zero on a regular basis just to remind myself that I will never raise children in New York or LA. Never.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

"unless you're poor."