damnit jake.

[Goat]

less then zero.
it's one of those books you'd read in a university style literature interpretation course. everything is symbolic. taken at face value, the story was depressing, agrovating and sobering.
on a deeper level though, looking at (for example : where his nose bleeds for the first time after doing coke - it represents a turning/transition period in clay's life. he turns down coke or says he'll do some later - the thrill of being high has long since been lost but he it's like a low. etc etc
so many of these throughout the book
it's a psychologists/socialogist/psychiatrist's wet dream come true.

all in all not what i was expecting. depressing. extremely sad. and something i don't feel like writing an english paper on.
just cuz of a period in my life right now.
6.5/10 - with varying probability of an increase based upon a re-read in 6months.

i read 13 pages of "pornographers poem" however, and it's fuckin brilliant.
more to come.

[sidekick]

i'm sad that you didn't really enjoy Less Than Zero, however, i can see where your points are coming from.

my favourite Bret Easton Ellis book is The Rules of Attraction. i'll lend that one to you (if you think you'd like to read more of Ellis' stuff).

glad that you are liking Pornographer's Poem. it really is a brilliant book, written in an original way, and it doesn't censor itself at all, which is really refreshing. also the fact that it is set in vancouver is really cool because you can identify the places that they're talking about. my friend and i found the traintracks and walked along them...not sure if you got to that part yet.

enjoy!

[Goat]

i didn't like Less then Zerod, conventionally speaking. but i couldn't put the book down either.
i was feelin really sympathetic to clay during some parts, really being able to see where he was coming from. minus being rich.
fuck. alright. i did like it.
it's a love/hate relationship.

havn't gotten to the traintracks yet.