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From: lmv@houxa.UUCP (L.VANDERBILT)
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Subject: Re: Less Than Zero - No spoilers
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Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 08:30:11 EST
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In response to my article on Less Than Zero, Michael Krantz writes:

>     Less_Than_Zero is a terrible novel.  

	why do you think it is terrible?  I think the book shocked me
but I still think it was well written.

> Don't let the Salingeresque
> affadavits fool you.   Ain't nothing wrong with porno literature (see
> Portnoy's Complaint, all Henry Miller, some Mailer...) but you have
> to back it up, and Ellis doesn't.  

	I'm not sure what you mean by he doesn't back it up, could
you explain.

> That he could write any sort of coherent narrative at the age of
> 20 is remarkable (I know from experience, since I'm 23 and I still can't)
> but that's tough bananas.
> His book simply shouldn't have been published.  But it sold, so the

	why do you think it shouldn't have been published??

> book execs knew what they were doing, right?  Go figure.


Lynn
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