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Andrew McCarthy
Bret Easton Ellis’s debut, Less Than Zero, is one of the signal novels of the last 30 years, and he now follows those infamous teenagers into an even more desperate middle age.
Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he’s soon drifting through a long-familiar circle. Blair, his former girlfriend, is married to Trent, an influential manager who’s still a bisexual philanderer, and their Beverly Hills parties attract various levels of fame, fortune and power. Then there’s Clay’s childhood friend Julian, a recovering addict, and their old dealer, Rip, face-lifted beyond recognition and seemingly even more sinister than in his notorious past.
But Clay’s own demons emerge once he meets a gorgeous young actress determined to win a role in his movie. And when his life careens completely out of control, he has no choice but to plumb the darkest recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal.
A genuine literary event.
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Like a typical Chandler character he talks with different people and learns fragmented info about the situation and different characters' motivations.
There is also a familiar noir element of protagonist playing the parties against each other at one point.
The biggest difference perhaps is the more we learn about middle-aged and much more active and ambitious Clay, the more we suspect he might be one of the more narcissistic and evil characters in the story himself.
It is like a neo-noire where an anti-hero starts to look more and more like a villain as we move forward with him.
Ellis took a character who was kind of a passive criminal as a youth, ignoring the situations that perhaps it was unacceptable and pathological to ignore, and asked a question - would the years of experience make him an active criminal, a predatory person.
I must say even being an Ellis fan I mostly didn't get and like this novel upon a first reading, but got and liked it much more when I returned to it, being more conscious of details, knowing more about author's intentions and even seeing some of his newer work like the movie "Canyons", which has some similar themes and surprisingly made me understand this book better.
I still found some of the dialogue and narration akin to a pulp novel or a bad movie, which might be intentional, because the narrator is a B-level screenwriter who is said by Bret Ellis to narrate a story like one of his screenplays.
Oh well, I might like the bits I thought were bad the next time I re-read the book, maybe they just weren't obvious enough.
So in my opinion this is a better and deeper book then it might seem at a first impression, which might or might not also contain bad lines at times.
I loved the voice of Andrew McCarthy who reads the audio book, the only problem with it being that his voice for some reason sounds so kind and friendly to me, that I can't associate him with a book's villainous protagonist.
If you want the actor to really sound like a dark Ellis narrator it is probably better to go with James Van Der Beek who narrated "Linar Park" audiobook.
But listening to Andrew McCarthy narrate this book is also a pleasure, just a different kind.
Grown up Clay as evil narcissistic Philip Marlowe
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“I never liked anyone, and I’m afraid of people.”
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Andrew McCarthy: LOVE IT
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Riveting to the last drop
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Brett Easton Ellis rules
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An interesting sequel
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Andrew Mcarthy brings you right back to the movie… it’s so real he’s a great actor.
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Great performance
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narrator doesn't fit
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