Synopsis
the novel follows a life of Clay, a rich immature university student world health organization has returned to his hometown of Los Angeles, California for the winter break. Across great deal of a novel he lives his period attend parties & doing doses using friends of his world health organization sleep in the metropolitan area. In the period of this instance, he must decide whether or even does'nt he wants to prove my point his relationship sustaining his girlfriend, Blair, for whom he is uncertain just about his feelings. Meanwhen, Clay has a single-nighttime stands by using two or three guys unofficially while his relationship sustaining Blair goes downward-sloping. At the equivalent period, he likewise attempts to call for retired how come his friend Julian has experienced super little email by owning him, which leads him to study that Julian has get a prostitute and drug addict. This, along by owning more unknown cases that happen in the course of the story, stimulator Clay to turn into disturbed per humans around him. One of these days, this leads him to leave Los Angeles, even (when a ending seems to indicate) gone.

Criticism
A novel is typically criticized for its want of details, free (a bit of say aimless) plot, & lackluster character development. Even so, others argue that this is an crucial device around telling a story, therein it shows a purposelessness & emptiness of the characters.

Adaptation
Less Than Zero was loosely adapted into the movie in 1987 starring Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey, Jr., and James Spader. A film focuses in an anti-drug message, like than a emptiness of the characters' peoples when in the novel.