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| Original Title: | The Rules of Attraction |
| ISBN: | 067978148X (ISBN13: 9780679781486) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Patrick Bateman, Sean Bateman, Lauren Hynde, Paul Denton, Victor Johnson |
| Setting: | United States of America |
Bret Easton Ellis
Paperback | Pages: 283 pages Rating: 3.69 | 39116 Users | 1310 Reviews
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Set at a small affluent liberal-arts college in New England eighties, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future—or even the present—who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives. The Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance.
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| Title | : | The Rules of Attraction |
| Author | : | Bret Easton Ellis |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 283 pages |
| Published | : | June 30th 1998 by Vintage Contemporaries (first published September 1987) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Novels. LGBT. Literature. American. Thriller |
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Ratings: 3.69 From 39116 Users | 1310 ReviewsArticle Out Of Books The Rules of Attraction
At first glance, this book is pointless. It's an endless loop of drugs, sex, and parties. It has no plot, it begins and ends in the middle of a sentence, there are too many characters strewn about, too many labels, too many songs, too many places. You finish the book and for a moment you think 'wait - what? That's it?' but you realize yes, that is, in fact, 'it'. The apathy Ellis invokes in his readers, shows in his characters, is still masterfully done. He breezes past topics like suicide andThis book may have sounded contrived to some, but to me it was exactly the way I remember being and feeling in college. The dorm, cafeteria and party scenes are brilliant and so are the fast travel sections. When I recently read The Sorrows of Young Mike, it felt like a sequel because the characters were also nihilistic college students, horny and self-involved. It, along with The Rules of Attraction, touches on similar issues that hardly affect the main characters, as they are busy thinking
One of the best books on insight. The setting makes this book even more pleasurable-a college campus in the 80s. We've all contemplated simple questions like "Does my best friend secretly hate me?" or "Does my boyfriend think about someone else when he's sleeping with me?". This book makes your insides squirm with embarrassment in the most hilarious form. There's so many great things about this book-the ending, the graphic sex scenes and how Victor is really a boring piece of shit. You never get
I spent about a year and a half reading this book, which worked out quite well. Like Less Than Zero, the existence of a plot here is one step above accidental--a brusque necessity. Crucial to keep things moving, but negligible if you decide to take a fourteen-month leave of absence from Brett Easton Ellis.I suspect I stopped reading the book because it contains incessant co-ed droning, and, more than a little, made me feel that I spent too many of my college days reading books. In picking it
So I stand against the wall, listen to REM, finish the beer, get more, keep my eye on the Freshman girl. Then some other girl, Deidre I think her name is, black spiked hair that already looks dated and trendy, black lipstick, black fingernail polish, black kneesocks, black shoes, nice tits, okay body, Senior, comes over and shes wearing a black halter top even though its like forty below in the room and shes drunk and coughing like she has T.B., swigging Scotch. Ive seen her stealing Dante in
I just really love this man's books. Edgy but not sew edgy, dark, creepy, and palate cleansing.His stuff is not for everyone and I can understand that. :)
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