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Books like Less than Zero 1985
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Less than Zero
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The rules of attraction 1987Also bleak
Almost Transparent Blue 2003Also grave and bleak- From Morning to Midnight 2013Also relentless, bleak and prestige
Magic seeds 2004Also grave, relentless and prestige
Querelle de Brest 1953Also grave, bleak and prestige
The Informers 1994Also grave and bleak
Limonov 2011Also grave and prestige- Normance 1954Also grave, bleak and prestige
Yeni hayat 1994Also grave and prestige
The same feel, in other forms
Albums
- Abstract Principles Taken to Their Logical Extremes 1995Also grave, bleak and relentless
- Relatives in Descent 2017Also grave
- Dogsbody 2023Also relentless and grave
Films
Sweet Smell of Success 1957Also grave, relentless and bleak
Marty Supreme 2025Also relentless
Cruel Story of Youth 1960Also grave, bleak and prestige
Series
Gankutsuou 2004Also grave
Games
Hyper Light Drifter 2016Also grave
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