The Rules of Attraction

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Bret Easton Ellis

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6 years, 10 months ago at Jul 30 17:27

camuscamuscamuscamus

Capturing the bull-shit of Generation X is Ellis' strong-suit, and he does it very well on this criminally overlooked book. You'll laugh at the sexually and mentally detached characters, and thank God Ellis' world doesn't mirror your own (or truly be scared, that your life is a living lie). Notably, contains a cameo of protagonist Sean Bateman's brother Patrick - who Ellis would later use as his "... read more

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Description: Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s, 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 th ... (more)

Manufacturer : Vintage
Release date : 30 June 1998
ISBN-10 : 067978148X | ISBN-13: 9780679781486

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"That's for example a thing about Bret Easton Ellis' books. He's my favourite author and every of his books that I read I actually liked. But he's using the plot of (young) adults living a way of debauchery very often or probably always. But still the story turns out differently every time so it's still fine."

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camuscamuscamuscamus posted a review 6 years, 10 months ago

The Rules of Attraction by Ellis

“Capturing the bull-shit of Generation X is Ellis' strong-suit, and he does it very well on this criminally overlooked book. You'll laugh at the sexually and mentally detached characters, and thank God Ellis' world doesn't mirror your own (or truly be scared, that your life is a living lie). Notably, contains a cameo of protagonist Sean Bateman's brother Patrick - who Ellis would later use as his "American Psycho".” read more

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