The rules of attraction

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• Book Review: The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis Share

  Paul has a crush on Sean, Sean wants to sleep with Lauren, Lauren was Paul's ex-girlfriend. In an affluent college town where students attend more parties than classes, and sexualities are more fluid than before, The Rules of Attraction presents a bi ... (read full critics)

  blogcritics published on Sat, 19 May 2012

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  Just like the characters in the book present themselves, bored, intelligent and dozed-off with too much money, I think the content of this book is to be processed between the lines; as the pages drip with cynicism and glibness, the people behind the words develop and function. I'm glad to see Ellis' ... (continue)

  Just like the characters in the book present themselves, bored, intelligent and dozed-off with too much money, I think the content of this book is to be processed between the lines; as the pages drip with cynicism and glibness, the people behind the words develop and function. I'm glad to see Ellis' writing of collegial sex, drunkenness and drugs through the eyes of obviously intelligent creatures, as opposed to the common way of "politically correctly" finger-pointing at what's right and demonising what's wrong.

  The three main characters intertwine, lock and disperse throughout, as people do, in a variety of ways. Their personalities are unveiled as I read on, and I actually got a lot through this book. In a way, it was like opening somebody's diary; thoughts never said, love unrequited and cheap thrills, it's all here. School daze.

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  Niklas Pivic said on Jul 4, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  I guess it says a lot about Ellis's writing that this kept me interested all the way to the end (this time) though pretty-much all of the characters were generally very unlikeable and there wasn't much in the way of plot. Fascinating though was the subtlety of different perspectives on the same sit ... (continue)

  I guess it says a lot about Ellis's writing that this kept me interested all the way to the end (this time) though pretty-much all of the characters were generally very unlikeable and there wasn't much in the way of plot. Fascinating though was the subtlety of different perspectives on the same situation, and the settling for so much sex when love was wanted so much.

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  sid_rw said on Jul 13, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• 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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  darkwalker said on Feb 4, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Others 283 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0307756459
• ISBN-13: 9780307756459
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pub date: Jan 01, 1987
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and eBook
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