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  • Quite possibly the worst book I have ever picked up with the exception of The Stand in my high school days.

    Not so much a matter of taste, as this book seems to have been written on a pattern of "what's popular today". I was quite disappointed in the effort. The point of view shifts were poor ... Continue

    Quite possibly the worst book I have ever picked up with the exception of The Stand in my high school days.

    Not so much a matter of taste, as this book seems to have been written on a pattern of "what's popular today". I was quite disappointed in the effort. The point of view shifts were poorly executed and nothing compared to the brilliance of Joyce or Faulkner.

    

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In "The Rules of Attraction", Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College, a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s. He treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the centre of their lives. Racing from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Dressed To Get Screwed parties to drinks at The Edge of the World, this is a poignant take on the death of romance.

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