Less than Zero is a raw and powerful portrayal of a young generation that has experienced sex, drugs and disaffection at too early an age. The narrator, Clay, is the son of a Hollywood couple who care far more for their careers than their children and their problems. Clay returns home to Los Angeles for the Christmas holiday, a holiday that turns into an orgy in parties, sex and drugs. Less than Zero is a shocking novel that portrays the nihilism that comes with youth, money and parental neglect. Less than Zero was critically acclaimed, and called 'An extraordinarily accomplished first novel' (New Yorker). Twentieth Century Fox released a movie based on the novel in 1987, starring James Spader (Stargate) and Robert Downey JR (Chaplin). Excerpt from Less than Zero: (193) 'Written on the bathroom wall at Pages, where it says "Julian gives great head. And is dead." : "Fuck you Mom and Dad. You can both die because that's what you did to me. You left me to die. You are both so fucking hopeless. You can both rot in fucking shitting asshole hell. Burn, fuckers. Burn."