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I like a novel where there isn’t any character development or a “full circle revelation” as you like to call it. It is refreshing to see someone whose life is far more depressing than one’s own. As a matter of fact, it is quite original…unless you’re used to reading things like Mein Kamph or just about anything written by James Mischner…lots of words in his novels. Anyhow, I liked Less than Zero.
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Depressing novels and depressing films make me happy. I was just talking to someone today about how I don’t like characters starting out as bad and miserable people and then changing to good people at the end. That is the single reason why I think Romper Stomper is ten times the film that American History X is. In American History X he sees the error of his ways and reforms. But in Romper Stomper, he starts out as a racist skinhead and in the end, he’s still a racist skinhead. To me that’s a little more true to life.